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Orléans-Braganzai Péter Lajos herceg
Dom Pedro Luís Maria José Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga de Orléans e Bragança e Ligne
Orléans-Braganzai Péter Lajos
Életrajzi adatok
Uralkodóház	Orléans-Braganza-ház
Született	1983. január 12. Rio de Janeiro, Brazília
Elhunyt	2009. június 1. (26 évesen)
Nyughelye	Vassouras családi mauzóleum Rio de Janeiro, Brazília 2009. július 5.
Édesapja	Antônio of Orléans-Braganza herceg
Édesanyja	Christine of Orléans-Braganza hercegnő
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Orléans-Braganzai Péter Lajos herceg (1983. január 12. - 2009 június 1.) gyermeke Orléans-Braganzai Antônio brazil hercegnek és eredetileg ő kellet volna örökölje a csak elvileg létező brazil trónt.

A sorban ő lett volna a harmadik aki örökölheti a trónt, az 1889-ben megszüntetett brazil trónon. A jelenlegi örökös és az egész dinasztia feje a gyermektelen Orléans-Bragançai Lajos

For monarchists, he was third in the line of succession to the Brazilian throne, abolished in 1889. The current pretender and head of the former dynasty is his childless uncle, Prince Luís. Pedro Luís followed another childless uncle, Prince Bertrand, and his own father, Prince Antônio. His younger brother, Prince Rafael, replaces him in the line of succession upon legal declaration of his death.

Family

He was born on 12 January 1983 Dos Santos, Alexandre Armando. A Legitimidade Monárquica no Brasil. São Paulo: Artpress, 1988, Anex V (in Portuguese) in Rio de Janeiro, the elder of the two sons of the Brazilian Prince Antonio and his Belgian wife, Princess Christine de Ligne.His paternal grandparents were Pedro Henrique, head of the Brazilian Imperial House and of Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria. His maternal grandparents were Antoine, 13th Prince of Ligne and Princess Alix of Luxemburg. His mother's family, the House of Ligne is one of the oldest and most prominent Wallonian noble families still extant in Belgium. Christine is a niece of Grand Duke Jean, who reigned over Luxembourg until his abdication in 2000.

As his father's eldest brothers, Luís and Bertrand, are bachelors it was expected, after his own father, that Pedro would in due time become the head of the Imperial House of Brazil, claimant to the defunct Brazilian crown. In addition to Brazil's emperors, he was a descendant of Louis Philippe I d'Orléans, King of the French in the male line, and of King John VI of Portugal. He was also a distant nephew of John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, renowned governor of Dutch Brazil during the colonial period.

Career

Pedro Luís held dual Brazilian-Belgian citizenship and was fluent in Portuguese, English and French. The prince moved in infancy with his family to Petrópolis and was enrolled in the Insituto Social São José (Saint Joseph Social Institute), in which education was directed by nuns, and took secondary studies at the Colégio Ipiranga (Ipiranga School). He graduated in Business Administration from IBMEC in Rio de Janeiro after matriculation from 2001 to 2005, and undertook postgraduate education in economics at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. After that he worked at the Mariani Bank in Rio de Janeiro until the end of 2007 when he moved to Luxemburg, where he was hired by BNP Paribas (one of Europe's main banks) and did management consulting for several companies.

As a member of the "Vassouras branch" of descendants of Brazil's past emperors, he did not share in the income still flowing from land transactions in Petrópolis under the nineteenth century emphyteutic lease (in contrast to the rival "Petrópolis branch" of descendants) and so lived comfortably, but "without great luxury". He had no car, traveling around Rio de Janeiro by foot and on the bus. Regarding his lifestyle, he stated in an interview: "It is normal. We are citizens like anyone else and we have to work to live".

Dynastic role

When in 1993 Brazilians voted on restoration of the monarchy in a referendum, Luís and Bertrand, known for their political beliefs, were repudiated not only by some monarchists, but also by four of their own younger brothers, who tried unsuccessfully to convince them to renounce their traditional claims to the throne in favor of their brother Antonio, and the young Pedro Luís.Then only ten years old, Pedro Luís was seen beside his father during the monarchist restoration campaign. Luís and Bertrand recognized that Pedro Luís would be a better choice if the monarchy were to be reinstated by the Brazilian people, but that option was not exercised and only 6,840,551 Brazilians, 13% of the total tally, voted in favor of parliamentary monarchy.

Concerning his status as a prince of a deposed dynasty and of the responsibilities inherent in that position, he affirmed: "We carry this burden and must set an example". He was in search of a suitable fiancée of royal blood, considered an obligation for the future head of the Imperial House of Brazil. In 1999 he became honorary president of Brazil's Monarchist Youth, and also held the Grand Crosses of the Order of Pedro I and of the Order of the Rose.

Pedro Luís had expressed some opinions about Brazilian politics aside from the monarchy. Regarding the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva he stated, "I am very pleased with the economic performance of Brazil, all derived from the policy of Lula da Silva. I am a supporter of the political choices of the Brazilian government which, in my opinion, is diminishing the [economic] gap among Brazilians".

Pedro Luís was considered by many Brazilian monarchists as the prince that gathered "all the hopes and aspirations [of restoration]" due to the "vigor of youth and the seriousness of his character". Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza and heir of the abolished Portuguese crown, affirmed, regarding Pedro Luís: "He is a very intelligent person. I have the best reports of him."

Death

The prince was returning to Luxemburg from Rio de Janeiro after visiting his family when he disappeared along with 227 other people in the aerial disaster of the Air France Flight 447 on 1 June 2009. His double-cousin Princess Alix de Ligne had planned to travel with him, but took an earlier flight instead. Pedro Luís´s body was among the ones retrieved from the ocean and was buried in Vassouras in the family´s mausoleum on July 5.