Brazilian royal family descendant dies in São Paulo at 84

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Luiz de Orleans e Bragança died on July 15, in São Paulo, at 84 years old. He is a descendant of the royal family that ruled Brazil under the monarchical system until 1889, when the Republic was proclaimed.

Bragança was the son of Pedro Henrique de Orleans e Bragança and Maria da Baviera, and was born on June 6, 1938, in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France.

Since his father died in 1981, he has headed the Imperial House of Brazil, a non-governmental organization that defends the return to the monarchy.

For the group, he is the “legitimate dynastic successor of his elders, Emperors Dom Pedro I and Dom Pedro II and Princess Dona Isabel,” according to a note announcing his death.

The Imperial House of Brazil will now be headed by Luiz’s brother, Bertrand de Orleans e Bragança.

The entity defends the “restoration of the Monarchy in the general lines of the Constitution of March 25, 1824, naturally making the necessary adaptations to the current Brazilian reality”.

The wake for Luiz de Orleans e Bragança will be held at the headquarters of the Plínio Corrêa de Oliveira Institute, at Rua Maranhão, in the Higienópolis district, on July 16 and 17. The burial will be on the 18th, at Consolação Cemetery, at 1 PM.

With information from Agência Brasil