1. Marie Julie Clary, known as Julie Bonaparte, was Queen of Naples, then of Spain and the Indies, as the wife of Joseph Bonaparte, who was King of Naples from January 1806 to June 1808, and later King of Spain and the Spanish West Indies from 25 June 1808 to June 1813.
Marie Julie Clary was born in Marseille, France, the daughter of Francois Clary, a wealthy silk manufacturer and merchant of Irish heritage, and his second wife Francoise Rose Somis.
Julie Clary accompanied her spouse to Italy when he became ambassador to Rome in 1797, and then settled with him in Paris in 1804.
Julie Clary preferred to stay separated from him in Mortefontaine and was ceremoniously treated as queen in the Imperial court of Paris.
Julie Clary finally joined Joseph in Naples before April 1808, when she was sent there by Napoleon to support him, as he by that time faced a rebellion.
Julie Clary was the first queen of Spain not of royal birth.
Julie Clary was kept informed from Vichy and Plombieres about her husband's adulterous relationships in Spain.
Julie Clary effectively functioned as an ambassador and informer of Joseph and upheld a political correspondence with him regarding Napoleon's plans of Spain, warning Joseph that he should make precautions necessary to control Spain, its unity, finances and army himself, as Napoleon would never allow Spain to be too independent.
In 1816, her sister Desiree, who was Crown Princess of Sweden, wished to bring Julie Clary with her upon her return to Sweden; her husband the crown prince thought this unwise, as Julie Clary was a member of the Bonaparte family and her presence might be taken as a sign that he sided with the deposed Napoleon, and in the end, this came to nothing.
Julie Clary settled in Brussels in 1821, and then in Florence, Italy, at the Palazzo Serristori.
Julie Clary was described as charming, quiet, dignified and peaceful and generally well liked.
Julie Clary died eight months later in Florence, on 7 April 1845, at the age of seventy-three.
Julie Clary was buried next to Joseph at the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence.
In 1862, the self-proclaimed French Emperor Napoleon III brought Joseph Bonaparte's remains back to France and had them inhumed to the right of his younger brother, the Emperor Napoleon I The remains of Julie are still at the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence beside those of her daughter, Charlotte, who died in Lucca, in Italy, on 3 March 1839, aged 36, giving birth to a stillborn child.