KING PEDRO AND HIS ROYAL FAMILY IN 1858 PORTUGAL

The Portuguese Royal Family in 1858. 

Photographic montage from individual photographs by Francisco Gomes and Václav Cifka. 

From left to right: 

- Queen Stephanie (born Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen),
- Her husband King D. Pedro V;
- Prince Augustus;
- Prince Fernando (who died in 1861);
- Princess (Infanta) Antonia (who would marry Queen Stephanie's brother Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen);
- King Ferdinand II (King Pedro's father, former King Consort and Regent, widower of Queen Maria II);
- Infanta Maria Anna (who married Prince Goerg of Saxony and would become mother of Saxony's last King);
- Prince John (who also would die in 1861);
- Prince Luiz (future king; after his older brother's death) 

LOST LISBON, the book by Marina Tavares Dias 

has a volume VII section about "Dona Estefania: a Queen, a hospital, a neighborhood of Lisbon" 

and a volume VIII section about "Antónia, Portugal's Princess".

Hospital de D. Estefânia | QUEEN STEPHANIE OF PORTUGAL HOSPITAL

 Hospital de D. Estefânia

in the 19th century

(left and below)

Original plant of 

Queen Stephanie's Hospital (1860s)

AND TODAY:

See the highlighted

green space 

surrounded by pink?

It's the

Queen's Hospital

and its gardens.

Notice how few other

green spaces

central Lisbon has

The Queen Stephanie's 

Hospital Friends' League

Queen Stephanie's Hospital still exists in 2014.

But there are plans for its destruction, due to

its centrality and the value of its land and gardens.

Nevertheless, it was built on land owned by the King

and with money of the Royal Household.


Read the 
Biography of QUEEN STEPHANIE 
in the pages 
of the VII volume
of LISBOA DESAPARECIDA 
(Lost Lisbon)
by Historian 
Marina Tavares Dias, 2001.