Caroline Bonaparte Murat took the name of the Countess of Lipona (an anagram of Napoli, or Naples). Her former lover, the Austrian Chancellor Metternich, tried unsuccessfully to obtain permission for her to settle in Rome near her mother and siblings., A short biography (with portrait) of Marie-Annonciade, a.k.a. Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples and the Two-Sicilies, younger sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, Caroline Bonaparte was born on 25 March 1782 as the daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino and as such was Emperor Napoleon I’s younger sister. She hardly knew her father as he would die two years after her birth of cancer of the stomach., After she married one of Napoleon’s military advisors – a match he was only persuaded to support by his wife Josephine – Caroline swiftly moved up the odd intra-family career ladder. In 1804, with Napoleon on his self-appointed throne, Caroline and her sisters became Imperial Princesses., Caroline. renamed herself the Countess of Lipona and took refuge with her children in Trieste. A year after her husband's death, she secretly married Francesco Macdonald, a soldier formerly in Napoleon's service. Like so many of the Bonapartes, Caroline died of stomach cancer, in 1839., Carolina Maria Annunziata Bonaparte Murat Macdonald, better known as Caroline Bonaparte, was an Imperial French princess; the seventh child and third daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, and a younger sister of Napoleon I of France..