LISBOA DESAPARECIDA
and many other books about PORTUGAL's capital
make MARINA TAVARES DIAS
the most successfull and talented
historian of LISBON.
Here is the first attempt to
tell you our stories
in English.
From LISBON TO THE WORLD

terça-feira, 29 de dezembro de 2020

Queen Stephanie of Portugal in London (1858)

 

QUEEN STEPHANIE OF PORTUGAL IN LONDON






From the newsparpers of 1858:


«The Queen of Portugal arrived at Buckingham Palace yesterday [May 6] afternoon upon a visit to Her Majesty the Queen [Victoria]. The Queen of Portugal on landing at Dover was received by the Earl of Shefield, Lord in Waiting, and Major-General Wylde, Groom in Waiting to the Prince Consort. Her Majesty, accompanied by her father, the Prince of Hohenzollern, and her brother, Prince Leopold, and attended by her suite, traveled to London by a special train on the South-Eastern Railway»



Investigation: LISBOA DESAPARECIDA, a book by 
Historian MARINA TAVARES DIAS
Photograph: The Queen of Portugal, Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
at the Royal mass in the Portuguese consulate in London.
Detail from a water-colour by the Portuguese miniaturist
Edward of Moira