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Married. Dom Joāo de Orléans e Bragança, 33, great-grandson of Brazil's last emperor, now a captain in the Brazilian air force; and Princess Fatima, 26, sister-in-law of Egypt's King Farouk; she for the second time; in Sintra, Portugal...
Only once did he unbend, at a bibulous evening in the Hampstead House apartment of Luxembourg's Prince Jean, whose playful guests turned the soda siphons on each other. Also present, and splashed, was Princess Thereza d'Orléans e Bragança, youngest sister of a claimant to Brazil's long extinct throne and of the Comtesse de Paris. Mayfair gossips said that 28-year-old, moderately good looking, very rich Thereza had been picked for Michael's queen by Michael's experienced, appreciative papa, ex-King Carol. Thereza said there...
Seville prepared for Europe's most glamorous wedding of World War II-Dom Pedro d'Alcantara d'Orléans & Bragança was marrying Princess Esperanza Rocio de Bourbon-Orléans. Already the city was as jampacked with Portuguese and Spanish bluebloods (40 princes and princelings, without counting lesser aristocrats) as the Cathedral of Santa Maria de la Sede at Christmas midnight mass. Most of them were royal refugees. Some, like the Count of Paris, Pretender to the throne of France, had come from Madrid. Others, like the widowed Princess Françoise of Greece...
...great-grandson of Dom Pedro II, second (and last) of Brazil's brief line of Portuguese emperors. When the second Dom Pedro abdicated the Brazilian throne in favor of a republic, his family lived in France until Brazil relented in 1920, welcomed home the house of Bragança. His great-grandson takes his royal status seriously, but does not expect to become an Emperor...
Seville Cathedral, second largest in the world,* was ready. So was Cardinal Segura, who would tie the knot. But the climax would not come until Dom Duarte, Duke of Bragança, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, could arrive from Switzerland. Wartime traveling is so uncertain...