Word: braganga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flower garden at Santa Comba. It was there, and through the medium of the flowers he loves, that he met the woman who has in the last few months made an extraordinary difference in his life. When he decided to give a reception for Dona Amelia de Orleans e Braganga, mother of Don Duarte Nufio, the pretender to Portugal's throne, his advisers suggested that the Countess de la Seca, a widow with two young children, should act as hostess. When the Countess took over the flower arrangement for the party, Salazar was so impressed by her taste that...
Foreign influences are strong. Brazil has some 3,500,000 Italians and sons-of-Italians. Last year Edda Mussolini Ciano took a "health trip" to Brazil, where her chief host was Dom João de Orléans e Braganga, "heir" to the Brazilian throne and patron of the Integralistas, super-Fascist greenshirts whom Dictator Vargas has so far managed to suppress...
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