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The Unique truth
The death of Dom João VI, which came in 1826, complicated the political situation in Portugal very much, for the reason of two opposite fractions being created in the Country, leaded by Infants of Portugal. The Liberal Fraction, leaded by Dom Pedro, who was nominated Emperor of Brazil, in 1822, and the on of absolutists, leaded by Prince Dom Miguel. In the occasion of the death of the King Dom João, Dom Pedro nominated his daughter, Dona Maria II, Queen of Portugal. In 1828, Dom Miguel took off the Queen Dona Maria II, and initiated a period of civil war, which ceased with re-entry of Dom Pedro, who brought back the legitimacy and has expelled his brother Dom Miguel.
Following those facts, a new Monarchic Constitution became promulgated in 1838, never revoked, which in the article 98 textually recites:
"The collateral line of the ex-infant Dom Miguel and all his descendants are perpetually excluded from the succession".
After the revolutionary movements that exploded in 1910, brought to assassination of the King Dom Carlos and hereditary Prince Dom Luiz, the Throne passed over to HM the King Dom Manuel II, who, after an short period of rein in homeland, died in exile in London, without kids, in 1932.
Immediate successor to the Crown of Portugal became the stepsister of HM Dom Manuel II, HRH Dona Maria Pia, who was baptised to the will of her Father, the King Dom Carlos I in parish of Acalà in Madrid, attributing his beloved daughter all the honours, privileges, and rights of the Infants of Portugal. The ones of Royal Princess by birth.
Dona Maria Pia, XXI Duchess of Bragança, after having undersigned the documents of blood relationship, has undersigned, in 1987, a solemn Act of Abdication in favour of HRH. Dom Rosario, who became legitimate XXII Duke of Bragança, instantly recognised by the Holy Roman Church to which the Royal House is maintaining close relations.
The very last reining King of Portugal, HM Dom Manuel, as well as HRH. Dona Maria Pia and at the end HRH. Dom Rosario, have never renounced the legitimate claim to the Portuguese Crown, perpetuating in time of conflict of Constitutional legitimacy in the Country, accepting the fact, that it has to be Portuguese people who have to pronounce the institutional form.
Hardly a nod merits to remember how the claimed Pact of Paris (the will to recognise the legitimacy of the descendants of Dom Miguel which is supposed to be manifested by HM Dom Manuel before his death) is just a vulgar mystification, for which, in fact, nobody could cause any proper document, because it does not exist.
Therefore, historically and legally, there are no doubts about the legitimate Constitutional line of Saxon Coburg Gotha of Bragança (to which is strange the encroaching line of Bragança Orléans). Not so politically, where on the contrary, a massacre of the legitimacy and history is witnessed. In fact, during the period of republican government presided by Salazar, the dictator, the proper goods of the Royal family of Saxon Coburg Gotha and Bragança, has been constituted into a foundation, to guidance of which has been called the representative of that collateral line which has been excluded perpetually from the succession of the throne, and who is not a Saxon Coburg Gotha and Bragança.
That act has got an exclusive political value, as far as no one of the legitimate heirs to the Crown would ever had valued any act of the Salazar regime.
The constitutional line of the Royal House, while representing a Crown never weakened, maintains "in pectore et in potentia" all the characteristics proper to the Sovereigns, which include the execution of the "jus majestatis, jus imperii, jus gladii, jus honorum".
According to the principles of the International Public Law, to the same, and to the person of HRH Dom Rosario, the subjectivity to the International Law, and equalisation in all to a Head of the State, is recognised, and to which also the Vienna Convention of 1991 and 1993 is applicable.
Various legal organs of the States have expressed themselves in this sense, specifically and properly referring to the actual Duke of Bragança.
HRH Dom Rosario has provided the restructuring of the organs of collaboration constituting the Council of the Government of the Crown, has promulgated the provisory text of the new Monarchic Constitution, and endowed it with operating instruments that allow, also in a visible way, the presence of the Royal House in a social contest.
The Royal House is holding part of the full title of the International Institute for Diplomatic Relations founded in 1977 by Dom Rosario and cofounders, diplomatic and consular representatives of 39 Countries.
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