Maria das Neves Infanta of Portugal
- Category : Notable-Famous-Royal-family
- Type : PE
- Profile : 6/2 - Role Model / Hermit
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : LAX Refinement 1
Biography
Portuguese Infanta, the eldest child and daughter of exiled Miguel I of Portugal and his wife Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. Until the birth of her brother Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Maria was titled Princess Royal of Portugal, a title of pretense, given her father had been deposed in 1834. Through her marriage on 26 April 1871 in Kleinheubach to Alfonso Carlos of Bourbon, Duke of San Jaime, Carlist claimant to the Spanish throne, Maria was titular Queen consort of Spain, France, and Navarre. Alfonso Carlos was her first cousin once removed, as Maria's father (Miguel of Portugal) and his paternal grandmother (Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal) were siblings. Maria and Alfonso Carlos had only one son who died some hours after his birth, in 1874. Maria was unable to have more children. She died in Vienna, Austria, aged 88, on 14 February 1941.