Love is tragic. Ask Inês de Castro
She was the cause of a bloody civil war between father and son
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She was the cause of a bloody civil war between father and son
SAO PAULO (AP) — The embalmed heart of the emperor who declared Brazil's independence...
The heart of beloved independence hero Dom Pedro I arrived in Brasilia as a formal state visit and received full military honors.
According to legend, in the mid-14th century a heart-broken King Peter (Pedro) I of Portugal exhumed the corpse of his lover to have her posthumously crowned queen. The romantic scandals of European royalty could fill a library so it can be difficult to find a story of a torrid liaison that stands out. But the tale of the coronation of Inês de Castro, the Corpse Queen of Portugal, is difficult to forget.