#princess maria amelia of brazil

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Don't know how to explain it but I feel they have the same energy

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Princess Amelia Maria of Brazil on her wedding day; August 16th, 2014.

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Empress Amélie of Brazil, née Princess of Leuchtenberg, in 1860. On her desk is a portrait of her only child, Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, who died on February 4, 1853 at the age of 21. Amélie visited her daughter’s tomb every year until her own death in 1873. Marie Amélia was engaged to Archduke Maximilian of Austria, the tragic Emperor of Mexico, and even after her death, her mother treated him as if he was her son-in-law. She bequeathed him all of her Bavarian property in her will.

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On August 26, 1852, the frigate Dom Fernando, equipped for Dona Maria Amelia [of Brazil]'s trip, sailed the seas towards the island of Madeira.

The health of the young princess was not very reassuring. Deep emotions preceded her departure from Lisbon. At her insistent request, Queen Dona Maria da Glória [II of Portugal], her sister on her father's side, brought her children to hug their young aunt; sad forebodings hovered over the melancholic family farewells. Tenderly hugging the oldest of the Infantas, Dona Maria Amelia blurted out these words: "It's not true, Maria, you won't forget me?!"

(...) On January 20 [of 1853], she [Maria Amelia] received a very affectionate letter from Queen Dona Maria da Glória, her sister, she was deeply moved and said: "My sister Maria loves me very much; I also love her dearly".

(...) On May 10 in the afternoon, the ship [that carried Maria Amelia's body back to Portugal] anchored in Cascais and parked there until the following day at ten o'clock. Passing through the forts at the entrance to the Tagus, she was greeted by all national and foreign vessels. The first were flagged in black.

Several great court figures had come to the tower of Belém, to meet the Empress [Amélie of Brazil, Maria Amelia's mother], and had climbed aboard. At noon, anchor was dropped in Terreiro do Paço. Delegations from the two Chambers and the municipality came on board and delivered speeches of condolence, to which the Empress responded with tears. A deeper emotion was in store for her: the Queen and the King came too. The Queen cried a lot; as she sprinkled holy water on her young sister's coffin, she certainly did not foresee that she would soon follow.

Almeida, Sylvia Lacerda Martins de (1973). Uma filha de D. Pedro I, Dona Maria Amélia

[Pictured: Daguerreotype of Princess Maria Amelia of Brazil, 1850 (left); daguerreotype of Queen Maria II of Portugal, 1849 (right)]

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Letter from Princess Maria Amelia of Brazil, dated June 4 of 1851, on the death of her grandmother Auguste Duchess of Leuchtenberg (née Princess of Bavaria):

I can't express to you the great pain I felt upon learning of the sudden, unexpected death of my beloved grandmama... Words are inexpressive to describe great and deep feelings... I cannot... The feeling of anguish I experienced, last year, saying goodbye to grandmama, it was a feeling then!… The feeling that I was seeing her, that I was hugging her for the last time! Grandmama was in such good health, when we left Munich, that it didn't occur to me! The fear of losing her… However, this misfortune, about which I would not have dared to dwell... it happened ! It's horrible, horrible! Let us not murmur. Let us resign ourselves to the will of God who wanted it this way…

Grandmama was reunited with her loved ones who preceded her in eternal bliss; and, reunited with those she loved, she enjoys an ineffable happiness with which God wanted to reward her high virtues, her inexhaustible goodness.

Almeida, Sylvia Lacerda Martins de (1973). Uma filha de D. Pedro I, Dona Maria Amélia

[Pictured: Princess Maria Amelia of Brazil, by Joseph Karl Stieler, circa 1850 (left), Auguste, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, by Joseph Karl Stieler, unknown date (right)]

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Princess Maria Amelia of Brazil, 1850.

Via Wikimedia Commons

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??????

Yeah, it's such a mystery, we have literally no idea why she went to Madeira.

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Ok but imagine a what if with Charlotte marrying Pedro and Max marrying Maria Amelia 😭 that could either go terribly good or terribly wrong for them. They seem to have been linked since the begining

Born to be uncle and niece-in-law, forced to become husband and wife sigh.

Jfkjfj ok speaking seriously, I also wonder how that would've worked out! Tho personally I think Max still would've accepted the Mexican throne regardless of whom he married; in fact it's believed that Max visiting Maria Amelia's half-brother Pedro II of Brazil (who was also Max's cousin because that family tree was almost a circle) played a huge role in convincing him that a monarchy in America was possible. Who knows, maybe Maria Amelia would've been even more on board than Charlotte in the Mexican adventure.

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Empress Amelie of Brazil, 1860. By Unknown photographer. Also in the picture there is a portrait of her only child Princess Maria Amelia, who died in 1853 at the age of 21.

Via The Royal Collection Trust

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hello! speaking of eugène, do you know if sisi ever kept in touch with or referenced her beauharnais cousins, like the bernadottes or leuchtenbergs? do we know what she thought of them (if she did at all)?

Hello! This is something that I've also been wondering for a while. They did met sometimes with the Bernadottes, but I don't know if they treated each other as cousins. In Valerie's diary I found two mentions of them, first in 1885 in a letter of Franz Josef to Valerie about a visit of King Oscar II of Sweden (Josephine of Leuchtenberg's son and therefore Elisabeth and FJ's first cousin once removed). However I have no idea what the letter said because Richard Sexau, the guy that transcribed the diary in which the published edition is based off, decided to not transcribe it. The second mention is from 1886, when Valerie and Elisabeth were in Baden and met the Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden (future Gustaf V, and grandson of Josephine of Leuchteberg) and his wife Crown Princess Victoria. The Crown Prince and Princess hanged out with them, Duchess Mathilde (Sisi's sister), and her daughter Maria Theresa "Mädi", whom apparently was close friends with Victoria (Valerie calls her "Mädi's beloved Viki" and also notes that she's very likeable). This is all I could find, but there probably is more.

I don't know about Elisabeth, but Archduke Max did kept contact with Empress Amelie of Brazil (Auguste and Eugène's daughter) even after Princess Maria Amelia (his fianceé) died. He visited her often, and I'm pretty sure they mentioned in each other's wills. Also I read in a biography of him that when he was Viceroy of Lombardy-Venice he tried to imitate Eugène, but I'm not sure how accurate this is.

About the rest of the Leuchtenbergs: Auguste, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg married Maria II of Portugal in 1834 but died shortly after without issue. His brother Maximilian, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg married Emperor Nicholas I's daughter Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna and moved to Russia, and for what I gathered eventually this branch loss all its connections to Bavaria. Eugénie (who was present at Sisi's birth and was one of her namesakes) married a prince of Hohenzollern; they visited Munich many times so maybe she met Sisi when she was more grown up, but she died in 1847 and had no children. And lastly Theodolinde, the youngest surviving daughter, married the future Wilhelm, 1st Duke of Urach, had four daughters and died in 1857. I know nothing more about this branch, but fun fact: Duke Wilhelm remarried and had a son, who later married Duchess Amelie in Bavaria, a niece of Empress Elisabeth.

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Hello ! I would like to know more about Maximilian's life? his relationship with Charlotte? ...Thanks.

Hello! Casually I'm currently reading The Crown of Mexico by Joan Haslip because I also want to know more about Max and Charlotte, so my short answer it's that you should ask me again in a week when I finished it and I can give a more fleshed out response.

For a longer answer, I can tell you what I know about Max and Charlotte (things that I learned through books about other subjects in which they featured). Archduke Maximilian was very different from his brother Franz Josef, almost his exact opposite. Max was quite charming, loved the arts and nature and had very liberal ideas that he openly championed. He thought that reforms had to be made throught out the empire and was against the extreme regime that was installed in most of the territories after the Revolution of 1848. However he did believe in the divine right of kings and that the Habsburgs were chosen by God to rule. Honestly he reminds me a lot to his nephew Rudolf, whom also was simultaneously progressive and a hardcore monarchist, and was heavily frustrated because the Emperor kept pushing him to the side lines.

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Franz Josef seemed to have been jealous of his younger brother. Max was not only their mother's favorite child - he was everyone's favorite. Empress Elisabeth? Loved him. The people of Vienna? Loved him. Apparently every single person that met him? Loved him. Queen Victoria was absolutely against her cousin marrying him and like, openly insulted him in her correspondance - two days after meeting him she was writing to King Leopold I about how he was the most perfect match Charlotte could have made. He was just that charismatic, and worst for his elder brother, a natural leader. A lot of people thought that he was King material: after 1848 some proposed that Hungary should be separated from Austria and Maximilian made King, before the war of 1859 in which Austria lose the province of Lombardy the same was proposed. After that war Franz Josef was so unpopular in Vienna that people wanted him to abdicate in favor of Max. Even though he does seem to have loved his brother (specially when they were younger), he didn't trust him, or at least didn't trust his popularity, and as time went by he purposefully made sure to give him little to no power and relegated him to secondary roles. This made Max very dissatisfied with his life and was probably one the things that pushed him to accept the Mexican throne.

I haven't read that much to write too in depth about his relationship with Charlotte - the common agreement it's that she was very in love with him and he wasn't. Maximilian was once in love with a cousin of his, Princess Maria Amelia of Brazil, the only daughter of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil and his second wife Amelie of Leuchtenberg. They were briefly engaged but shortly after she died. And in death, Maria Amelia became perfect, forever frozen in Max's memories in those weeks in which they met and fell in love. Charlotte was never like Maria Amelia to him, and although they do seem to have been happy during their first years of marriage Max grew cold as years went by. He also allegedly passed her a venereal disease during this time but I don't know what's the general agreement on this (Haslip for instance doesn't buy it).

Unreciprocated love beside, they were a good couple when it came to ruiling. When Max was appointed Governor of Lombardy-Venice (though as I said Franz Josef made sure that he had very little actual power) Charlotte fullfilled her role as his consort perfectly. Max believed that he was meant to a position of importance and so did she, and was more than eager to be a great consort. I can't say how this dynamic worked out in Mexico though, as I haven't read in detail of their short time there. As it's known ultimately everything ended up very badly for them :(

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Ok I'll try to explain it

They were born in Paris (like millions of other people I know but it's still a fun coincidence specially since Maria Amelia was Portuguese/Bavarian/Brazilian)

For political reasons both changed titles while growing up (Franz going from King of Rome to Duke of Reichstadt, and Maria Amelia wasn't recognized as a Princess of Brazil until she was 10)

Both lost their father when they were very young and grew up fearing they wouldn't be able to honour their memory

Both died at the age of twenty-one from the same illness (tuberculosis)

The fact they died so young before they got to actually do anything reduced them to the status of sad, tragic romantic historical figures (to the point that it's practically impossible to find any different take on them)

Also technically they're related: Maria Amelia's grandfather was Eugène de Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepson later adopted son (other familial connections include: Franz's beloved aunt Leopoldina being the first wife of Maria Amelia's father)

Don't know how to explain it but I feel they have the same energy