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From: Steven Lavallee <>
Subject: Re: Hello! On excluded dynastically-married senior lines
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 07:42:39 +0100


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Shinjinee Sen wrote:

>Are there any other cases such as this, where an equally or more
>correctly, dynastically-married senior male line has been excluded by a
>renunciation which was not revoked [and presumably the senior line has
>not retro-derenounced, to use an ATR phase?

According to <Anita Rhinelander Stewart: an American princess> by
Marlene A. Eilers (Royalty Digest, no. 65, November 1996), the case
of Miss Stewart's first husband, Prince Miguel de Bragança, Duque de
Vizeu, would fit this bill. Heir of the Duke of Braganza, and, as such,
heir to the Miguelista claim to the throne of Portugal, Prince Miguel
renounced both his rights and those of his three young children on
July 31, 1920. Up to that time, they were members of the Royal House
of Bragança, as the American heiress's consent to a marriage with
Prince Miguel was conditional upon their union being accepted as an
equal marriage.

Within three years of his renunciation, the Duque de Vizeu died in New
York. His sons eventually became American citizens. As such, they only
used de Bragança as a surname. In light of the events as depicted in
the aforementioned article, it would appear that history underwent a
tad of a re-write at this time. Beginning with the Almanach de Gotha
in the late 1920's, when it ceased to call them Princes and Princesse,
and with its 1930 edition, when it ceased to even list them by name,
the children of the Duque de Vizeu have ever since been represented in
many royal genealogical works as the products of an unequal marriage.
At the risk of coining yet another term, one might conclude from this
phenomenon that the Duque de Vizeu's widow and children, in time, fell
victim to a subtle campaign of retromorganaticism.

Today, the senior male representative of this branch of the Braganças
is the Duque de Vizeu's grandson, Miguel William de Bragança. He was
born at Glen Cove, Long Island, New York on September 25, 1951, and was
married at Boston, Massachusetts on September 27, 1980 to Barbara
Haliburton Fales. She was born at Miami, Florida on September 20, 1954,
daughter of Samuel Fales and Barbara Foote. Their children are:

Miguel Samuel de Bragança,
born at Boston on February 3, 1986 at 3:29 PM
Annabel Barbara de Bragança,
born at Boston on May 6, 1989 at 2:05 AM
Camilla Fales de Bragança,
born at Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts on October 21, 1990 at 6:20 AM

Steven Lavallee

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