I believe his youngest child, Infanta Antonia, was born in 1862, when he would have been sixty years old. She also was the last of his children to die , in 1959 (when she was in her 97th year). This would mean that more than 150 years separated the birth of a father and the death of his last child. I wonder about the world record for such a statistic ...
It's interesting to note that 110 years separated the birth of this Portuguese prince and the birth of Infanta Maria Adelaide (in 1912). Was she his youngest grandchild? He would have turned 51 in the year her father, his only son, was born. That son, in turn, turned 59 in the year she was born. I similarly wonder about the world record for the greatest time span between the birth of a grandparent and the birth of the youngest grandchild ...
As it was, this granddaughter of his managed to live to the age of 100. This would mean that 210 years separated the birth of a grandparent at the death of the last grandchild. Once again, it would be interesting to know the world record on such a statistic ...
Well, it seems that his wife carried a longevity gene which she herself didn't realize, but which has manifested itself in a number of their descendants.
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