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21 hours ago · The House of Braganza produced 15 Portuguese monarchs and all four Brazilian monarchs, numerous consorts to various European kingdoms, such as Catherine of Braganza (wife of Charles II of England who introduced tea to Britain) and Maria Isabel of Braganza (wife of Ferdinand VII of Spain who founded the El Prado Museum), as well as sometime ...
4 days ago · Catherine of Braganza, the poor neglected queen of Charles II., invited over to England some members of a sisterhood at Munich, called the Institute of the Blessed Virgin, and these she settled and supported during her husband's life in a house in St. Martin's Lane.
3 days ago · While Kings County was named for King Charles II, Queens County was allegedly named for his wife, Queen Catherine of Braganza. A sculpture of Queen Catherine was planned in the 1990s, but...
5 days ago · Catherine of Braganza. There are a number of pictures showing the Queen's House at this period. Perhaps the best-known ones are the copies of the painting by Dankaerts, one of which is in the possession of the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum (Plate 12).
3 days ago · The life of Philip Thomas Howard, O.P., Cardinal of Norfolk, Grand Almoner to Catherine of Braganza, Queen-consort of King Charles II., and restorer of the English province of Friar-Preachers or Dominicans , compiled from original manuscripts, with a sketch of the rise, missions, and influence of the Dominican order, and of its early ...
3 days ago · Tea became better known after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, since Charles II had spent his exile in Holland, where tea was already popular, and his wife Catherine of Braganza came from Portugal whose people were among the earliest to adopt the new beverage.
The daughter of Walter Stuart (or Stewart), a physician in the household of Queen Henrietta Maria when in exile after the death of her husband, Charles I, in 1649, Frances Stuart was brought up in France and was sent to England in 1663 to become maid of honour to Catherine of Braganza, queen of Charles II.
