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Benedita of Portugal

Benedita of Portugal – A Princess in the shadows (Part two)

February 12, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. Benedita and Joseph would indeed not have any children, and Benedita is known to have taken water cures, hoping to fall pregnant. She reportedly suffered miscarriages in 1781 and 1786, and there was some talk of annulment in 1787. In any case, the marriage of Maria’s second son John now became [read more]

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Benedita of Portugal

Benedita of Portugal – A Princess in the shadows (Part one)

February 10, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

Infanta Benedita of Portugal was born on 25 July 1746 as the eighth child but fourth surviving one of Mariana Victoria of Spain and King Joseph I of Portugal. Benedita’s three elder sisters were Maria (the future Queen Maria I of Portugal), Mariana and Doroteia. Her mother had suffered several stillbirths and without a son, [read more]

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Maria Pia of Savoy

Maria Pia of Savoy – The penultimate Queen of Portugal (Part four)

February 1, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part three here. Maria Pia spent much of the year 1888 scouring Europe to find a wife for her second son Afonso. However, he was quite against marriage, and the long trip eventually became a source of ridicule. She returned home without a new daughter-in-law and to a sick husband. When she attended the [read more]

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Maria Pia of Savoy

Maria Pia of Savoy – The penultimate Queen of Portugal (Part three)

January 31, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

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]

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Maria Pia of Savoy

Maria Pia of Savoy – The penultimate Queen of Portugal (Part two)

January 29, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. As the news of the engagement spread around Europe, congratulations began pouring in. Queen Victoria was disappointed in Luis’s choice and wrote, “Naturally the change so sudden… in your opinion astonishes me greatly. But since you have made your choice, I have nothing more to say, except to wish that it [read more]

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Maria Pia of Savoy

Maria Pia of Savoy – The penultimate Queen of Portugal (Part one)

January 27, 2021 Moniek Bloks 1

Maria Pia of Savoy was born on 16 October 1847 at the Royal Palace in Turin as the second daughter of the future King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and his wife Adelaide of Austria. She was given the name Pia in honour of her godfather Pope Pius IX, and it was also he who [read more]

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