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Re:Among Europe’s Ex-Royals by tsupiroti on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:46PM (#31173585)
The someone was Pedro's brother Miguel. After losing the war, he was banished and his descendents removed from the succession line, but they now claim to be heirs to the throne of Portugal (which nobody really cares about).

This all happened after the royal family escaped the French invasions to Brazil and Rio de Janeiro became the capital of Portugal. The story of Pedro, the independence of Brazil and the Portuguese liberal wars is really interesting.

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Re:Among Europe’s Ex-Royals by B1FF_PSUVM on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:02PM (#31173722)
Make that hugely amusing. The absolutist king, Miguel, had the common people's support. The liberals were basically a bourgeois minority.

It took a foreign invasion - Pedro travelled around in English ships, and his troops had a mercenary backbone - to "liberate" Portugal.

The more it changes, the more it's the same.

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