Estefania Queen Consort of Portugal
- Category : 1837-births
- Type : R
- Profile : 2/4 - Hermit / Opportunist
- Definition : None
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Maya 2
Biography
Queen consort of Portugal from 18 May 1858 to 17 July 1859 as the wife of King Pedro V.
Estefânia (Stephanie) was the eldest daughter of Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and his wife Princess Josephine of Baden.
Stephanie married King Pedro V of Portugal by proxy on 29 April 1858 in Berlin. She was then married in person on 18 May 1858 at Lisbon. Both bride and groom were a few months short of their twenty-first birthdays. She fell ill with diphtheria and died on 17 July 1859 only a year later in Lisbon at the age of 22. There were no children from this marriage.