BRAGANÇA (Dom Miguel, 1853-1927, Miguelite pretender, eldest son of Miguel I, 1802-1866, King of Portugal 1828-1834, Duke of)

Autograph Letter Signed in English to the travel writer V.C. Scott O'Connor, 1869-1945, saying he has read "of the bomb outrage and am thinking, that you must have been present too. Civilisation seems to be spreading !" he hopes "the Vice Roy will soon recover completely; but what a shock ... for poor Lady Hardinge!", at the end of October he was in the 'Luftbad' ['Air-bath'] for over an hour with about 40 degrees Farenheit and under, without feeling cold, the previous January to May they were at St. Jean de Luz with "our collection of little girls", the Duchess had typhoid for ten weeks in the summer but is recovered completely, "perhaps I shall go, for a few weeks hunting, to England later on", 4 sides 8vo., original envelope addressed to Calcutta and forwarded to Delhi, Seebenstein, Lower Austria, 29th December

Following the revolution in Portugal of 1910, the exiled King Manoel II and Dom Miguel met at Dover on 6th February 1912, to concert on common action, but the Royalist invasions were ill-equipped and were quickly dispersed. The Royalists had slightly greater success for a while in 1919. In 1920 Dom Miguel and his elder son renounced their claims in favour of the younger son, Dom Duarte Nuno, who became Pretender when Manoel II died in 1932.
In Delhi on 22nd December 1912, a bomb was thrown at Lord Hardinge as he entered Delhi in state, seriously wounding him, recalling the assassination in similar circumstances of King Manoel's father and brother in 1908.

Item Date:  1912

Stock No:  51530      £125

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