Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Queen Stephanie
Queen consort of Portugal and the Algarves
Tenure	18 May 1858 – 17 July 1859
Born	15 July 1837 Krauchenwies, Sigmaringen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Died	17 July 1859(1859-07-17) (aged 22) Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Burial	Pantheon of the Braganzas
Spouse	King Pedro V of Portugal
Full name German: Stephanie Josepha Friederike Wilhelmine Antonia Portuguese: Estefânia Josefa Frederica Guilhermina Antónia
House	Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Father	Prince Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern
Mother	Princess Josephine of Baden
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Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (Stephanie Josepha Friederike Wilhelmine Antonia; Portuguese: Estefânia; 15 July 1837 – 17 July 1859) was the Queen consort of King Peter V of Portugal.

Family

Born in Krauchenwies, Sigmaringen, in 1837, Stephanie was the eldest daughter of Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and his wife Princess Josephine of Baden. Her maternal grandparents were Karl, Grand Duke of Baden, and Stéphanie de Beauharnais, adopted daughter of Napoleon.

She was also a younger sister of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, older sister of King Carol I of Romania, and aunt of King Albert I of Belgium.

Marriage

Portrait of Stephanie by Karl Ferdinand Sohn, 1860.

This photo shows King Pedro V and Queen Stephanie in the courtyard at Pena Palace near Sintra, around 1858. The picture was taken during the wedding festivities of Pedro and Stephanie.

Stephanie married King Peter V of Portugal by proxy on 29 April 1858 at St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin, where her eldest brother Leopold stood in for the groom. She was then married in person on 18 May 1858 at the Church of St. Dominic in Lisbon. Both bride and groom were a few months short of their twenty-first birthdays. Stephanie was received with much luxury and wrote home that the Portuguese understood luxury better than dignity. However she fell ill with diphtheria and died only a year later in Lisbon at the age of 22. During her short period as queen, she made herself a good name from the foundation of hospitals.

There were no children from this marriage. Her body was interred at the Braganza Pantheon inside the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon.

Pedro never married again and died of cholera on 11 November 1861. He was succeeded by his younger brother Luís.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Ancestry

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

• Marek, Miroslav. "A listing of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen". Genealogy.EU.