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Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal

Grand Duchess Marie Anne
Dowager Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Infanta of Portugal
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Grand Duchess consort of Luxembourg
Tenure 17 November 1905 – 25 February 1912
Regent of Luxembourg
Tenure 19 November 1908 –
18 June 1912
Born (1861-07-13)13 July 1861
Bronnbach Castle, Wertheim am Main, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Imperial Confederation
Died 31 July 1942(1942-07-31) (aged 81)
New York City, United States
Burial Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg
Spouse Grand Duke William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
(m. 1893 - 1912; his death)
Issue Grand Duchess Marie-Adélaïde I, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Grand Duchess Charlotte I, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Princess Hilda, Dowager Princess of Schwarzenberg
Crown Princess Antonia of Bavaria
Princess Elisabeth
Princess Sophie
Full name
Portuguese: Maria Ana do Carmo
House Braganza
Father Infante Miguel of Portugal
Mother Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
Religion Roman Catholicism
Full name
Portuguese: Maria Ana do Carmo

Grand Duchess Marie Anne (Portuguese: Maria Ana; 13 July 1861 – 31 July 1942) was a Portuguese Princess, Grand Duchess consort of Luxembourg and its Regent. She was a member of the House of Braganza.

Born at Schloss Bronnbach in Bronnbach, Wertheim am Main, Kingdom of Württemberg, Infanta Marie Anne (or Maria Ana) was the fifth child and second-youngest daughter of deposed usurper Miguel of Portugal and his wife Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. As such, she was titled and styled from birth as an Princess of Portugal. At the time of her birth, her father had been exiled, and the family lived as guests in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In spite of their straitened circumstances, the daughters of Miguel I made good marriages, some to reigning monarchs and deposed heads of Roman Catholic European dynasties.

Before her marriage with William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg she was considered by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria as a suitable bride to his only son and heir, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria but Rudolf did not like her and she would remain single for the next years. Infanta Maria Ana was married on 21 June 1893 at Schloss Fischhorn, Zell am See, to the Protestant William, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, the eldest child and heir apparent of Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, head of the House of Nassau. It was agreed that the children would be raised in their mother's Catholic faith, the religion of the overwhelming majority of Luxembourg's population.


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