The European Royals Message Board: Re: Both Brazilian claimants in the news

You are absolutely correct and its imposition in 1908 without any previous reason to suppose any such rule existed, after the heir had already been betrothed to his future wife was beyond the powers of his mother, the Princess Imperial who had no such authority. But the tenuous claim of the junior branch depends on this fiction so I suppose the young mn has been persuaded of its worth.

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: He does, but yet he also unhesitatingly agrees
: with the interviewer's statement that he
: "must marry a real princess."
: What struck me the most, though, was his
: description of this "tradition" as
: part of his family's "Hausgesetz"
: - House Law. It's never been anything of
: the sort, regardless of whether we're
: talking about the dynastic laws of the
: Braganzas or the constitutional law of the
: Brazilian Empire.
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: As far as I understood, he speaks of
: "tradition", not
: "requirement"...
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