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- In 1995, the Duke marriedDona Isabel Inês de Castro Curvello de Herédia. Their marriage was the first marriage of a Portuguese royal to happen in Portuguese territory since the marriage of King Carlos I, Duarte Pio’s second cousin once removed, and Princess Amélie of Orléans, in 1886.
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Mar 11, 2021 · Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a Black branch of the Portuguese royal house. The riddle...
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Their marriage was the first marriage of a Portuguese royal to happen in Portuguese territory since the marriage of King Carlos I, Duarte Pio’s second cousin once removed, and Princess Amélie of Orléans, in 1886.
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- Charlotte’s Death and Legacy
Princess Sophia Charlotte was born on 19th May 1744 to a relatively obscure duke and duchess in northern Germany. Her serene upbringing in this quiet nook of mainland Europe came to an abrupt end when the teenage princess was selected as the most favourable bride for Britain’s George III, who was just a mere 22 years old. George was after a young, ...
Within a year of marriage, the young queen gave birth to a son, George, who later reigned as George IV. This was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to children in the royal household, as Charlotte had a total of 15. Although St. James’s Palace was their official residence, Charlotte was particularly fond of another pad which had come into the...
Queen Charlotte was a woman with wide-ranging passions. Music was one of them, and she had a considerable teacher in the form of Johann Christian Bach, son of the great composer Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1764, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, then still a young boy, performed for the queen and her court, amazing them with his incredible virtuosity. She eve...
Charlotte’s happy existence was shattered by George III’s mental illness, which began to have a marked effect on his temperament in 1788. Historians still debate the root cause of his illness, but he later became entirely incapacitated and the agony of the situation proved traumatic for Charlotte. While she outwardly supported the ailing king, Char...
The disorientating drama around the king’s malaise cast a shadow over Charlotte’s remaining reign and perhaps contributed to her unpopularity with the public in her later years. She died peacefully, sitting in an armchair with the Prince Regent holding her hand, on 17th November 1818, having been consort for an incredible 57 years and 70 days. Desp...
Jun 22, 2021 · De Valdes y Cocom believes that Queen Charlotte, known as a German princess, was actually directly related to Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a 15th-century Portuguese noblewoman nine generations removed.
- Natasha Ishak
Nov 30, 2017 · Though Queen Charlotte was German, De Valdes y Cocom’s research shows the queen was directly descended from a branch of the Portuguese royal family, related to Margarita de Castro e Souza, a ...
Oct 10, 2023 · Infanta Maria Francisca and Duarte de Sousa Araújo Martins got married on October 7, 2023, at Basilica and Palace of Mafra, which was the first royal wedding in Portugal in nearly 30 years.
Aug 8, 2022 · However, since female succession to the throne of Portugal had never happened before, her father decided that Maria would marry his younger brother Infante Pedro of Portugal, the first male in the line of succession. On June 6, 1760, 25-year-old Maria married her 42-year-old paternal uncle Pedro.
