Portuguese Royals Remember Lisbon Regicide

February 3, 2016 at 5:21 pm by Marengo

The Duke and Duchess of Bragança and their eldest son Prince Dom Afonso attended a mass in Lisbon’s church of S. Vincente de Fora to remember the 108th anniversary of the Lisbon regicide. On February 1st 1908 King Carlos I of Portugal and the 20 y/o Crown Prince Luíz Filipe were murdered at Lisbon’s Terreiro do Paço. The king, his wife and his sons were travelling in an open carriage on the square when two men started shooting at them from close by. Although Queen Amélia tried to protect her family by hitting one of the assassins with her bouquet of flowers, the king and the crown prince both died. The youngest son survived and succeeded his father as King Manuel II of Portugal. He reigned for little more than two years before a revolution ended the Portuguese monarchy.

Real Associação de Lisboa on Tuesday Assinalámos ontem a passagem de mais um aniversário do funesto dia 1 de Fevereiro de 1908 com uma Missa de Sufrágio na Igreja de S.Vicente de Fora , seguida de romagem ao Panteão Real . A liturgia foi presidida por Sua Eminência o Senhor Cardeal Patriarca de Lisboa, D. Manuel Clemente, e concelebrada pelo Reverendo Reitor de São Vicente de Fora, Padre Ricardo Alves Ferreira, e pelo Reverendo Padre Gonçalo Portocarrero de Almada . O acompanhamento musical esteve a cargo do agrupamento FigoMaduro, do tenor Bruno de Menezes Ribeiro e do trompetista Paulo Carmo ( Orquestra Gulbenkian ) , a quem expressamos aqui o nosso agradecimento . Infra está disponível a reportagem fotográfica , da autoria do nosso associado Nuno De Albuquerque Gaspar. 

 More photos here. Courtesy: TRF poster Blog Real. Filed under Portuguese Royals Tagged Dom Afonso, Mass, Regicide, The Duchess of Bragança, The Duke of Bragança, The Prince of the Beiras. 

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