Word: braganza
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...grandee, arranged a brief interview with Pope Paul VI, who gave the newlyweds his personal blessing and their first wedding present-a crucifix. No reigning monarchs attended the wedding, but the guests included such ghost royalty as Austria's ex-Empress Zita and Portugal's Duke of Braganza. Emotionally the Roman weekly L'Espresso addressed an open letter to Irene telling her "you are like a lamb caught in a den of tigers...
...time for Charles to marry. He chose the Portuguese infanta, Catherine of Braganza, and settled down to a long and happy life with her, and with Lady Castlemaine, Moll Davis, Margaret Hughes, Jane Roberts, Mary Knight...
...Almirante Barroso nosed past Sugar Loaf into Guanabara Bay last week, jet planes circled in the sky and shore batteries roared a royal 21-gun salute. On the cruiser's fantail, beneath the old imperial colors,* lay two oak coffins. They contained the remains of Princess Isabel of Braganza and her French consort, Gaston Count d'Eu. Brazil was honoring a national heroine, the princess who freed the slaves...
...Brazilians date their independence from Sept. 7, 1822, when Braganza Prince Dom Pedro tore up Portuguese crown orders to return to Lisbon, proclaimed Brazil a free and independent nation...
...this series of historical mores she is able to show the character of the Merry Monarch entirely through the personalities of the men in his life. In succession, Miss Skinner played Charles' mother, a Dutch tavern girl, Lady Chartlemaine, Louise de Queroalle, Nell Gwyn, and Katherine of Braganza. As Nell, the London orange girl who became Drary Lane's leading lady, and then in Nell's own words, "danced her way into the royal bed," she displayed much of the good-natured, earthy charm that must have fascinated Charles. The intensity of the next and final scene, in which Charles...