Princess Stéphanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Queen Stephanie
Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Portrait of Stephanie by Karl Ferdinand Sohn, 1860.
Queen consort of Portugal and the Algarves
Tenure	18 May 1858 – 17 July 1859
Born	15 July 1837 Krauchenwies, Sigmaringen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Died	17 July 1859(1859-07-17) (aged 22) Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Burial	Pantheon of the Braganzas
Spouse	King Pedro V of Portugal
Full name German: Stephanie Josepha Friederike Wilhelmine Antonia Portuguese: Estefânia Josefa Frederica Guilhermina Antónia
House	Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Father	Prince Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern
Mother	Princess Josephine of Baden
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Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (Stephanie Josepha Friederike Wilhelmine Antonia; Portuguese: Estefânia; 15 July 1837 – 17 July 1859) was the Queen consort of King Peter V of Portugal.

Born in Krauchenwies, Sigmaringen, in 1837, Stephanie was the eldest daughter of Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and his wife Princess Josephine of Baden. Her maternal grandparents were Karl, Grand Duke of Baden, and Stéphanie de Beauharnais.

She was also a younger sister of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, older sister of King Carol I of Romania, and aunt of King Albert I of Belgium.

Stephanie married King Peter V of Portugal by proxy on 29 April 1858 at St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin, where her eldest brother Leopold stood in for the groom. She was then married in person on 18 May 1858 at the Church of St. Dominic in Lisbon. Both bride and groom were a few months short of their twenty-first birthdays. Stephanie was received with much luxury and wrote home that the Portuguese understood luxury better than dignity. However she fell ill with diphtheria and died only a year later in Lisbon at the age of 22. During her short period as queen, she made herself a good name from the foundation of hospitals.