3rd January 1937

3rd January 1937

Mandelieu, Cannes to 27 Queen Square, Bath

My dear Madeleine,

Thank you all so very much for your good wishes. I hope you are all well. We spent a nice Christmas here in my new home. But it is rather cold here now and bad weather. I think I am forgetting to write English, but I must often speak it as there are many English people here in Cannes. This is our little house.

With best Deidi

Left: Mandelieu was the settling place for Pedro’s mother and the birthplace of his and Deidi’s children, Prince Luiz, Prince Eudes and Prince Bertrand. Prince Luiz of Orleans-Braganza (born 6th June 1938) is the head of the Vassouras branch of the House of Orléans-Braganza and a claimant to the defunct Brazilian throne. The Vassouras branch claims the throne in opposition to the Petrópolis branch of the Orléans- Braganzas, headed by Prince Pedro Carlos of Orléans-Braganza. Though both Prince Luiz and Prince Pedro Carlos are great-great- grandchildren of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, of the House of Braganza, they contest leadership over the Brazilian Imperial Family due to a dynastic dispute concerning their fathers, who were cousins.

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