Word: braganza
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...mention of these in the House of Commons recently evoked guffaws, but according to the Foreign Office the obligations of assisting Portugal in case of attack, initiated by British King Henry II and subsequently strengthened by British King Charles II, when he took to wife Portuguese Princess Catherine de Braganza, remain in force. One of these obligations, the Foreign Office gravely announced, is that Britain ''if need be" must go to the aid of Portugal "with a warship carrying at least ten culverins." Culverins were long cannons with peculiar serpent-like adornments much esteemed in the 16th...
...King of Sardinia was, like all the Bourbons, a fool, the Portuguese Queen a Braganza and therefore by nature an idiot, The successor to Frederic of Prussia...
Engaged. Princess Marie-Antoinette Michelle Raphaelle Gabrielle Adélaide Françoise Xavière Josèphe Expédite Grégoire de Braganza, 31, daughter of the late Duke Miguel de Braganza, pretender to the throne of Portugal; and Ashley Chanler, son of the late William Astor Chanler...
...last week Dom Manoel de Braganza, onetime King of Portugal, sat at Wimbledon watching the tennis tournament, chatting with his good friends King George of England and onetime King Alfonso of Spain. On the day that Ellsworth Vines won the championship, King Manoel's chair was vacant. He had waked up with a sore throat. After breakfast he went to see his physician, was ordered to bed. But not until afternoon did Dom Manoel obey. By then his throat was swelling rapidly, he was choking for breath. While his secretary telephoned frantically for Lord Dawson of Penn, Dom Manoel...
...patronesses for the Jubilee are the Mesdames H. F. Bigelow, G. D. Boardman, Robert Borden, John Bowditch, Philip Boyer, Princess de Braganza, the Mesdames E. N. Bray, I. T. Burr, H. I. Cobb, Jr., L. B. Cutler, T. J. Davis, S. S. Drury, G. H. Emory, H. L. Ewer, E. H. Fay, H. F. Gillette, C. B. Gleason, A. G. Goodhue, A. C. Hanford, M. A. Howard, A. E. Hindmarsh, Llewellyn Howland, G. T. Keyes, A. V. Kidder, Delmar Leighton, G. W. Lewis, E. F. Locke, Matthew Luce, W. D. Robbins, Robert Saltonstall, R. C. Storey, H. M. Watts...