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

Typed Letter Signed in English to the travel writer  V.C. Scott O'Connor,  (1869-1945), saying "you must have had a very interesting time since 1919 and the different places you mention are mostly old acquaintances for me", he talks of the various posts he held during the war (on the Austrian side), "Commander of southern Dalmatia ... my headquarters were near Ragusa", earlier he was in Russia, then commanded "a Cavallery division in Rumania and in Italy, till the end came. Now my only consolation is, that I did my duty", he talks also of the Austrian Imperial family, and the "tragic misfortune ... of my poor nephew the Emperor Carl", besides his own family losses from the great 'flu epidemic, and one son as prisoner of war, he has still not forgotten meeting Scott O'Connor and "the pleasant days of Brixen", 1 side folio, Seebenstein, Lower Austria, 8th July

The Duke's father escaped from Portugal in 1834 after the civil war between the Miguelites (absolutists) and partisans of Maria II. In 1851 he married a German lady and brought up his family in Germany.
The Duke's sister Da. Maria Antónia, married Roberto I, Duke of Parma, and was mother of the Empress Zita.

Item Date:  1925

Stock No:  51535      £150

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