Napoléon Louis Charles Bonaparte (10 October 1802 – 5 May 1807) was the eldest son of Louis Bonaparte and Hortense de Beauharnais. His father was Emperor Napoleon I's younger brother; his mother was the daughter of Napoleon's first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

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Napoléon-Charles Bonaparte
Prince Royal of Holland; Prince Français
Born	10 October 1802 Paris, France
Died	5 May 1807(1807-05-05) (aged 4) The Hague, Holland
Names Napoléon Louis Charles Bonaparte
House	Bonaparte
Father	Louis I of Holland
Mother	Hortense de Beauharnais

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Royal styles of Napoléon Charles Bonaparte
Reference style	His Royal Highness
Spoken style	Your Royal Highness

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At the time of his birth, his uncle was the First Consul of France and childless. Napoleon Charles was his eldest nephew and was seen as a potential heir, but he died before reaching his fifth birthday on 5 May 1807 of croup.

Napoleon Charles had two brothers: the youngest, Louis Napoleon, eventually became Emperor as Napoleon III in 1852.

The strong attachment that Napoleon showed towards the child, which was not repeated with his two younger brothers, gave rise to speculation that Napoleon-Charles was the son of a forbidden relationship between Napoleon and his stepdaughter Hortense.^[1]