
Maria Pia of Savoy – The penultimate Queen of Portugal (Part three)
Read part two here. Her many charitable acts could not silence her critics, and she was known to retort, “Those that want Queens should pay.” It didn’t help that her main critics were her father-in-law Ferdinand, King by right of his wife Queen Maria II until her death in 1853, and his morganatic second wife, [read more]