Beatrice of Portugal was born around 7 February 1373 as the daughter of Ferdinand I of Portugal and Leonor Telles de Meneses. She had two younger brothers, who both died young in 1380 and 1382. She would thus prove to be their only surviving child. Ferdinand I also had an illegitimate daughter with a mistress. [read more]
The future Queen of Portugal was born on 28 September 1865 to Philippe, Count of Paris and Marie Isabelle of Orléans. On 22 May 1886, she was married to Carlos, who was at the time the heir apparent to the Portuguese throne. It was an arranged marriage, and it was not even popular at first. [read more]
Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis was born on 28 May 1860 as the daughter of Princess Helene, Duchess in Bavaria and Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis. I assume she was named after her famous aunt, the Austrian Empress Elisabeth, or Sisi. Her parents had a happy but short marriage as her father [read more]
Isabel Luísa of Portugal was born on 6 January 1669 in Lisbon to Peter II of Portugal and his first wife Maria Francisca of Savoy at the Ribeira Palace. The palace was destroyed during the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. She would prove to be their only child. As the heiress presumptive she received the title Princess [read more]
Joan was the daughter of Isabella of Coimbra and Afonso V of Portugal. She was born on 6 February 1452, and she was for a short time the heiress presumptive between the death of her older brother John and the birth of her younger brother, the future John II. She was even given the title [read more]
Archduke Maximilian is perhaps better knows as Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, but to know how he got to be Emperor of Mexico we have to go back a couple of years and look back to a Princess who was long dead before he became Emperor. Maria Amélia was born on 1 December 1831 as [read more]
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