Duke’s Wedding Ends A Royal Drought

Sun., May 14, 1995

Compiled From Wire Services

Dom Duarte Pio, pretender to the Portuguese throne, presented his new wife to a festive crowd after the two were married Saturday in the country’s first royal wedding in more than a century.

The 49-year-old Duke of Braganca and his 28-year-old bride, Isabel de Heredia, were greeted with chants of “Long live the king” outside Lisbon’s 16thcentury Jeronimos Monastery.

Representatives of nearly every European royal family and some 1,500 guests attended the Roman Catholic ceremony.

The wedding has drawn attention to Dom Duarte’s campaign to restore the monarchy Portugal abolished 85 years ago when it established a republic and exiled his great-uncle, King Manuel II.

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