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Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies

テレサ・クリスティナ・デ・ボルボン＝シシリアス　/　てれさ・くりすてぃな・で・ぼるぼん＝ししりあす

Art collector from Italy

March 14, 1822 – December 28, 1889　・　Naples, Campania, Italy

Campania
art collector

My Take

Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies moves me in a way few royals do. Born into the Neapolitan court in 1822, she crossed an ocean to become Empress of Brazil beside Pedro II and was lovingly called the Mother of the Brazilians. What I find beautiful is that she is remembered less for power than for tenderness, plus a genuine passion for art and archaeology that left a real cultural legacy. That she died in 1889, the same year the monarchy fell, far from her homeland, gives her story a quiet melancholy. I cherish figures remembered for kindness over crown.

Overview

Dona Teresa Cristina (14 March 1822 – 28 December 1889), popularly known as “the Mother of the Brazilians”, was Empress of Brazil as the wife of Emperor Dom Pedro II, a position she held from her marriage in 1843 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1889.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies
Name (Japanese): テレサ・クリスティナ・デ・ボルボン＝シシリアス
Reading: てれさ・くりすてぃな・で・ぼるぼん＝ししりあす
Born: March 14, 1822 – December 28, 1889
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Pisces / Horse
Origin: Naples, Campania, Italy
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
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Occupation: art collector

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6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9

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