Orléans-Braganza, the alliance between Bolsonaro and the imperial family of Brazil

The three days of official mourning proposed by Jair Bolsonaro in his country for the death of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom did not go unnoticed in the international media.

The monarch’s death coincided with the campaign for the first round of presidential elections in the South American giant, which took place last Sunday.

Socialist Lula da Silva won the first round of voting, but it was a bittersweet victory if ever one.

The result has shown that literally all members of the Brazilian establishment and their media propaganda soldiers and the entire progressive left underestimated Bolsonaro’s huge support.

So the second round of the election should be more than exciting.

Those who will continue to support the conservative leader in the elections are the Brazilian monarchists, who Bolsonaro appreciates.

The official funeral service for the British queen was just another sign that Bolsonaro is aware of the great importance of this family and of Brazil’s monarchist tradition.

A few weeks earlier, he had already organized grand celebrations for the 200th anniversary of national independence, with members of the imperial family playing prominent roles.

The highlight, of course, was the return from Portugal with the highest honors of the embalmed heart of Pedro I (1798-1834), Brazil’s first emperor.

Although the country has not been a monarchy since 1889, polls estimate that at least one in ten citizens – a total population of more than 210 million – would welcome the restoration of the throne.

No small reservoir of voters.

And the Brazilian imperial family has increased its public presence under Bolsonaro, whose re-election would not be bad news for the Orléans-Braganza descendants of Pedro I.

The imperial household is headed by Prince Don Bertrand (84), who succeeded his older brother Don Luiz Gastão, who died in July.

Bolsonaro also ordered a national day of mourning for the man who would have been sovereign if the monarchy had continued. The harmony between the president and the traditional dynasty could not be closer.

Neither Bertrand nor Luiz Gastão has had children. So the royal family’s future is in the hands of his nephew Rafael de Orleáns-Braganza, who is 36 years old.

We will get to him shortly.

The current head of the dynasty, Don Bertrand, is known for his ultraconservative ideology and principles as an ardent traditionalist and Catholic.

On the eve of the presidential election, he issued a public letter stating that he felt “obliged, as a Catholic and a Brazilian prince, to respond to the appeal of those who have asked me about the guidelines for monarchists.”

“Do not vote for those who are trying to reintroduce a red agenda that until a few years ago did so much damage to our beloved and suffering country,” he urged his followers.

To the wise… Bertrand does not seem to have much sympathy for da Silva and his Workers Party.

With his rise to the top of the imperial household, his brother, Prince Antony (84), who is considered less conservative, automatically became his heir.

But the white hope of the royalists is his son, Prince Raphael d’Orléans-Braganza.

His mother is Princess Cristina de Ligne, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1984, and comes from a noble family related to the royal houses of Belgium and Luxembourg.

Rafael was the third of the couple’s four children and their second son.

His fortunes changed in 2009 when his older brother, Prince Pierre-Louis, was killed in a crash on Air France Flight 447 at 26. That made him heir to the throne.

“As Prince of Grão-Pará, I renew my commitment to dedicate my entire life to Brazil and to work for Brazilians in whatever field and whenever they ask me to do so,” Prince Rafael said in a statement this summer.

Although he accompanies his father and uncles to many events related to the monarchy, he currently lives in London, co-owner of a consulting firm.

IT LINKED TO A FAKE GAY ORGY

Rafael is still single. And he is under no small amount of pressure.

Because he has to marry a – Catholic – princess if he doesn’t want his marriage to be considered morganatic and thus disenfranchised.

Nowadays, in the ruling monarchies, all heirs marry commoners, and for love, that is, with whomever they feel like, we have aristocrats like him looking for a blue-blooded wife.

The first public appearance of Íñigo Onieva after his separation from Tamara Falcó: “I ask for forgiveness as often as it is necessary”.

Aside from the fact that these Orleans-Braganzas do not have the support of all Brazilian monarchists, the nonexistent throne is contested by two branches of the family -Bolsonaro’s relationship with the dynasty extends to politics itself.

For example, Luiz Philippe de Orleáns-Braganza, another dynasty head’s nephew, regained his mandate as federal deputy for the state of Sao Paulo on election Sunday.

Although this member of the imperial family is excluded from the succession – his father’s morganatic marriage forever excluded his descendants from the succession – he is very well known in Brazil as O Príncipe.

A businessman with a very conservative ideology, in 2018, he became the first prince in the country’s modern history to become a member of parliament.

He belongs to Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party.

And the relationship between the two is so good that the president was close to making him his vice president.

The Brazilian media reported that he did not do so because O Príncipe was the victim of a conspiracy that included a dossier linking him to a fake homosexual orgy.

When this came out, the nephew of the imperial head of household laughed: “I’m not gay, and I don’t even know where orgies take place. But maybe this will earn me points in the LGBT community.

With information from El Mundo

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