The Braganças

[Miss Waynfleet]

The current head of the Portuguese Royal Family

Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza



His wife Isabel







http://www.casarealportuguesa.org/

[Miss Waynfleet]

Their eldest son Afonso. I heard he was bullied in school. Poor boy.





with siblings Maria and Dinis

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http://realbeiralitoral.b...s-duques-de-braganca.html

Photos from the state visit of Charles and Camilla

[Miss Waynfleet]

D. Teresa de Orleans Bragança, widow of Ernesto Martorell died on the 18th of April

http://ppf21.wordpress.co...duarte-duque-de-braganca/

http://www.extraconfidenc...culos.asp?idarticulo=6861

http://www.destakes.com/r...7be7575fe845b7fa1f92b20ad

[Duchess of Lisbon]

The Braganças are alive!!!!!
They are the cover of CARAS magazine. The Duchess says that she is very proud of her 3 children.

[TLLK]

Those are three attractive teens. Thank you for the photos. 

[duchesse]

Thanks for starting this thread Miss Waynfleet 

I'll admit I don't know much about this dynasty .... they seem like a really nice family.

[pixiecat]

She's proud of her children?  That's the best headline they could come up with? 

Don't get me wrong, it's nice that they did an interview, but the writers of that magazine aren't all that great at coming up with attention-grabbing headlines.

[Duchess of Lisbon]

She's proud of her children?  That's the best headline they could come up with? 

Don't get me wrong, it's nice that they did an interview, but the writers of that magazine aren't all that great at coming up with attention-grabbing headlines.

Caras magazine is the type of magazine that only talks about the good side of celebrities' lifes. Caras still lives in the 90's.
Besides, the Braganças are very conservative and don't talk that much about their private life. The children are rarely seen in public, maybe because they are still minores and probably because Afonso was a victim of bulying, so maybe he doesn't want to show off that much.

[Curtains]

Caras wouldn't be the type of magazine to point out that the marriage of the Braganças, while stable, is based on the same premise as the Thurn Und Taxis marriage of Johannes and Gloria.

[Duchess of Lisbon]

I have no doubt that the Duke and Duchess like each other, but their marriage sounded a bit arranged. Isabel is from noble families and that must have weighted when D. Duarte proposed and we can't forget that if Duarte wanted to have children he had to marry a younger woman.

Here's more pictures of the event.






source: Facebook

[Jazzy]

Don't want to offend anyone, but I am curious. Why does the older boy hold his head up that way?

[Duchess of Lisbon]

Don't want to offend anyone, but I am curious. Why does the older boy hold his head up that way?

Actually I was thinkg the same. It looks like he swallowed a stick or something like that. He usually looks stiff in all pictures, not just in those.

[Duchess of Lisbon]

On friday, the Duke and Duchess of Bragança attended the funeral of Cardinal José Policarpo.

[Duchess of Lisbon]

Today Afonso turns 18 and Caras made this photogalery with some pictures of  him.

http://caras.sapo.pt/real...a-festeja-18.-aniversario

Today is schedule a mass to celebrate his birthday. (Only the Braganças to celebrate a boy's birthday on a church!  )