pt, Estefânia Josefa Frederica Guilhermina Antónia , succession =

Queen consort of Portugal Portugal had only two queens regnant: Maria I of Portugal, Maria I and Maria II of Portugal, Maria II (and, arguably, two more: Beatrice of Portugal, Beatriz for a short period of time in the 14th century; and Teresa of León, Countess of Portu ...

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Pedro V of Portugal , house = Braganza , house-type = House , father = Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry , mother = Queen Maria II of Portugal , birth_date = , birth_place = , death_date = , death_place = Necessida ...

, issue = , house =

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, father = Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern , mother =

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, birth_date =15 July 1837 , birth_place = Krauchenwies,

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, place of burial = Pantheon of the Braganzas , signature =Assinatura D. Estefânia de Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.svg Stephanie Josepha Friederike Wilhelmine Antonia of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen ( pt, Estefânia; 15 July 1837 – 17 July 1859) was Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Peter V.

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Born in Krauchenwies Castle in Krauchenwies,

, in 1837, Stephanie was the eldest daughter of

Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (german: Karl Anton Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Prinz von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) (1 September 1868 – 21 February 1919) was a member of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Princely House of Hohenzollern- ...

, head of the House of

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, and his wife

. Her maternal grandparents were

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, and Stéphanie de Beauharnais, adopted daughter of

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. She was also a younger sister of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern, older sister of

King Carol I of Romania Carol I or Charles I of Romania (20 April 1839 – ), born Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, was the monarch of Romania from 1866 to his death in 1914, ruling as Prince (''Domnitor'') from 1866 to 1881, and as King from 1881 to 1914. He w ...

, and aunt of

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Marriage

Stephanie married King Peter V of Portugal by

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on 29 April 1858 at

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, where her eldest brother

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stood in for the groom. She was then married in person on 18 May 1858 at the Church of St. Dominic in

. 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. During her short period as queen, she made herself a good name from the foundation of hospitals. There were no children from this marriage. Stephanie fell ill with

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and died only a year later in Lisbon at the age of 22. Her body was interred at the Braganza Pantheon inside the

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

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