Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza

File:D. Maria Francisca de Orléans e Bragança, D. Duarte Pio de Bragança, D. Miguel Rafael de Bragança, D. Duarte Nuno de Bragança.png and Princess Maria Francisca of Orléans-Braganza, and his brother Miguel, Duke of Viseu.]]

Duarte Pio was born on 15 May 1945 in Bern, Switzerland, as the first of three sons of Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, and Princess Maria Francisca of Orléans-Braganza. Duarte Pio uses a full name ending with Miguel Gabriel Rafael, a naming tradition of the House of Braganza that honors the three archangels in the Catholic Church. His name as registered at birth was simply Duarte Pio de Bragança.{{cite web |url=http://www.lusitana.org/causa_dd_2006_11_23_visao.htm |title=Archived copy |website=www.lusitana.org |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506002429/http://www.lusitana.org/causa_dd_2006_11_23_visao.htm |archive-date=6 May 2009 |url-status=dead}} His father was the grandson of King Miguel I, while his mother was a great-granddaughter of King Pedro IV (Emperor Pedro I of Brazil), who was Miguel's elder brother. Through his father, he is a member of the Miguelist branch of the House of Braganza. Duarte Pio's godparents were Pope Pius XII and Queen Amélie of Portugal (the mother of King Manuel II, the last monarch of Portugal).{{Cite web |title=Sua Alteza Real o Duque de Bragança Dom Duarte Pio, Chefe da Casa Real Portuguesa |url=https://www.casarealportuguesa.org/dynamicdata/sardomduarte.asp |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=www.casarealportuguesa.org |archive-date=16 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816043207/https://www.casarealportuguesa.org/dynamicdata/sardomduarte.asp |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |title=D. Duarte Pio: "Saída do euro seria um benefício económico para Portugal" |url=https://www.dn.pt/portugal/d-duarte-pio-saida-do-euro-seria-um-beneficio-economico-para-portugal-4713835.html |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=www.dn.pt |date=4 August 2015 |language=pt-PT}}{{Cite web |date=2020-05-15 |title=Como é que a 'realeza portuguesa' sobrevive? Dom Duarte Pio esclarece |url=https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/fama/1480165/como-e-que-a-realeza-portuguesa-sobrevive-dom-duarte-pio-esclarece |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=Notícias ao Minuto |language=pt}}

The Duke is regarded as a Portuguese national by descent, since his father was Portuguese (and so Duarte Pio's birth was legitimately included in the Portuguese Civil Registry).{{citation needed|date=August 2024}} At the time of his birth, Duarte Pio and the rest of the Miguelist Braganzas were banned from entering Portugal, by the laws of exile of 19 December 1834."Kings without Crowns", Life magazine, Vol. 42, No. 25, June 24, 1957

File:Retrato de Sua Alteza Real o Senhor D. Duarte Pio de Bragança, Príncipe da Beira - San Payo (Arquivo de Documentação Fotográfica, DGPC) 2.png.]]

On 27 May 1950, the Portuguese National Assembly revoked both the laws of exile from 19 December 1834, which banned the Miguelist Braganzas, and the laws of exile from 15 October 1910, which banned the Legitimist Braganzas. In 1951, Dom Duarte visited Portugal for the first time, accompanied by his aunt, Infanta Filipa. In 1952, he moved to Portugal permanently with his parents and brothers.{{Cite book |last=Henriques |first=Mendo Castro |title=Dom Duarte e a democracia: uma biografia portuguesa |date=2007 |publisher=Bertrand Ed |isbn=978-972-25-1517-7 |edition=2nd |location=Lisboa |oclc=255594200}}

From 1957 to 1959, Duarte was enrolled in the Colégio Nun'Álvares in Santo Tirso. In 1960, he entered the Colégio Militar in Lisbon.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lacm.org.pt/conheca-o-cm/outros-antigos-alunos-de-relevo/d-duarte-pio-de-braganca|title=Liga de Amigos do Colégio Militar – D. Duarte Pio de Bragança|trans-title=League of Military College Friends – D. Duarte Pio de Bragança|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192230/http://www.lacm.org.pt/conheca-o-cm/outros-antigos-alunos-de-relevo/d-duarte-pio-de-braganca|archive-date=29 October 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=18 September 2013}} He attended the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (now part of the Technical University of Lisbon) and later the Graduate Institute of Development Studies of the University of Geneva.

From 1968 to 1971, Dom Duarte fulfilled his military service as a helicopter pilot in the Portuguese Air Force in Portuguese Angola at the time of the Portuguese Colonial War. In 1972, he participated with a multi-ethnic Angolan group in the organization of an independent list of candidates to the National Assembly. This resulted in his expulsion from Angola by order of the Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano.

File:Retrato de Sua Alteza Real o Senhor D. Duarte Pio de Bragança, Príncipe da Beira - San Payo (Arquivo de Documentação Fotográfica, DGPC).png uniform during the Colonial War]]

Duarte Pio claims the throne{{Cite journal|title=Royal Births|last=Minet|first=Paul|journal=Royalty Digest|date=May 1996|volume=V|number=11|page=316|issn=0967-5744}} as the heir of King Manuel II according to the Constitutional Charter of 1826. Duarte Pio is widely considered the heir of the abolished Portuguese throne,{{Cite news|url=https://www.publico.pt/2008/02/01/jornal/acusacoes-a-duarte-pio-de-braganca-reacendem--querela-dinastica-247395|title=Acusações a Duarte Pio de Bragança reacendem querela dinástica|trans-title=Accusations to Duarte Pio of Braganza reopen dynastic dispute|work=Público|date=1 February 2008|language=pt|access-date=21 June 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.sabado.pt/portugal/detalhe/d-duarte-tem-direito-a-lugar-no-protocolo-de-estado-ainda-falta-muito|title=D. Duarte tem direito a lugar no protocolo de Estado? Ainda falta muito…|trans-title=Does Dom Duarte have the right to a place in the protocol of the state? Still a long way to go...|last=Espada|first=Maria Henrique|date=19 June 2019|work=Sábado|language=pt|access-date=21 June 2019}} but a small number of Portuguese monarchists do not recognise him as pretender to the throne or as Duke of Braganza. The dispute dates back to 1828 when Duarte Pio's great-grandfather was said to have usurped the throne as King Miguel I, starting the Liberal Wars. Miguel's forces were defeated in 1834 by the forces led by his own brother. Miguel I was exiled and his niece, Queen Maria II, was restored to her throne. According to the Law of Banishment (Lei do Banimento) of 1834, Miguel I and all his descendants were forever excluded from the succession to the throne. This exclusion was reinforced four years later with the approval of the Constitution of 1838, which had a similar provision.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fd.unl.pt/Anexos/Investigacao/1058.pdf|title=Constituição de 1838|trans-title=Portuguese Constitution of 1838|language=pt|page=18}} However, the Constitutional Charter of 1826 was reinstated in 1842; this constitution (which was in place until 1910 when the monarchy was overthrown) did not bar Miguel's descendants from ascending the throne.{{Cite web|url=http://app.parlamento.pt/site_antigo/ingles/constitucionalism/const_monarchy/index.html#2|title=The Constitutional Monarchy|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022105528/http://app.parlamento.pt/site_antigo/ingles/constitucionalism/const_monarchy/index.html#2|archive-date=22 October 2013|url-status=dead|quote=But the Constitutional Charter was revived for two subsequent periods: from August 1834 (when Dom Miguel left the country) to the resolution of September 1836 (which restored the Constitution of 1822 until the approval of the Constitution of 1838) and from January 1842 to October 1910.|access-date=30 August 2015}} Finally, the Law of Banishment of 1834 was repealed in 1950.{{Cite act|url=https://dre.pt/application/file/a/657703|type=Law|title=Lei n.º 2040|trans-title=Law No. 2040|index=2040|date=27 May 1950|legislature=National Assembly of Portugal|language=pt}}

In 1912 and 1922, Duarte Pio's grandfather, Miguel Januário, Duke of Braganza, reconciled with King Manuel II, but this reconciliation was not accepted by all of their adherents. There are several monarchist organizations in Portugal (like the People's Monarchist Party) which maintain that only the Cortes or the National Assembly could legally determine the rightful claimant if ever Portugal decided to restore the monarchy. One monarchist group in Portugal that did support Miguel Januário, Duke of Braganza, instead of the deposed King Manuel II was the Integralismo Lusitano.{{Cite journal|title=Integralismo Lusitano and Action Française: Their roots and shared principles|journal=Portuguese Journal of Social Science|last=Lloyd-Jones|first=Stewart|date=March 2003|volume=2|pages=39–59|doi=10.1386/pjss.2.1.39/0}} The results of the Dover Pact (1912) and Paris Pact (1922) meetings remain controversial: although there was an accord on challenging the republic, there remained no clear agreement on hereditary lines of succession.

In May 2006, the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement where it referred to Duarte Pio as Duke of Braganza.{{Cite web |title=Governo legitima e defende D. Duarte de Bragança |url=https://www.cmjornal.pt/politica/detalhe/governo-legitima-e-defende-d-duarte-de-braganca |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=www.cmjornal.pt |language=pt-PT}} On 5 July 2006, in response to this statement, Nuno da Câmara Pereira, then leader of the People's Monarchist Party, addressed the President of the Assembly of the Republic, asking for a clarification as to the official recognition of Duarte Pio as pretender to the throne and as Duke of Braganza. In its official response on 11 July 2006, the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs restated the fact that the Portuguese constitution guarantees the republican regime{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}, and that the reference to Duarte Pio as Duke of Braganza was merely a polite courtesy.

The Duke often interacts with both national and international political and cultural institutions, by which he represents the Portuguese people and their culture. Though not a head of state or official representative of the Portuguese state, Duarte Pio has been received with such honours by various foreign heads of state, government, and organizations.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

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Dom Duarte was a major campaigner for the independence of Timor-Leste, a former Portuguese colony which was forcibly annexed by Indonesia in 1975. Before the issue's global popularity from the 1990s onward, the Duke contributed with several national and international campaigns for the political self-determination of the territory, including Timor 87 Vamos Ajudar and Lusitânia Expresso. In 1997, Dom Duarte also suggested a referendum on the independence of East Timor to the Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Habibie. After Habibie became president of Indonesia in 1999, a referendum was held that resulted in the independence of the country.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

In December 2010, Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta expressed his interest in making Duarte Pio a Timorese citizen, which the Duke accepted, because of the "profound and spiritual relations of the Timorese people with Portugal", continuing by saying that the symbols of the House of Braganza have a "great significance" in Timor-Leste.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/detalhe/noticias/ultima-hora/d-duarte-ja-pediu-nacionalidade-timorense|title=D. Duarte já pediu nacionalidade timorense|last=Lemos|first=Sérgio|work=Correio da Manhã|date=1 December 2010|language=pt|access-date=13 January 2013}} In February 2012, with final approval and support of Timor-Leste parliament, President Ramos-Horta conferred Timorese citizenship upon Duarte Pio, along with the Order of Merit.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dn.pt/inicio/pessoas/interior.aspx?content_id=2296298|title=Dom Duarte recebe nacionalidade timorense|last=Lusa|work=Diário de Notícias|date=10 February 2012|language=pt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528181601/http://www.dn.pt/inicio/pessoas/interior.aspx?content_id=2296298|archive-date=28 May 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=13 January 2013}}{{Cite web|url=http://noticias.sapo.tl/portugues/foto/1221181/|title=Duque de Bragança recebe nacionalidade timorense|last=Lusa|work=Sapo Timor-Leste Notícias|date=10 February 2012|access-date=13 January 2013}} President Ramos-Horta stated that these honours were given because of Duarte Pio's "dedication of a large part of his life to defending justice and liberty for the Timorese people."{{Cite web|url=https://www.dn.pt/politica/interior/duque-de-braganca-cidadao-timorense-2301680.html|title=Duque de Bragança cidadão timorense|last=Lusa|work=Diário de Notícias|date=13 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722192633/https://www.dn.pt/politica/interior/duque-de-braganca-cidadao-timorense-2301680.html|archive-date=22 July 2018|url-status=dead|access-date=13 January 2013}}

In September 2011, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria invited the Duke on a state visit to Damascus.{{cite web|url=https://videos.sapo.pt/EBbM7qRZ1PBYlGfYrz9d|title=RTP TeleJornal – D. Duarte de Bragança Traz Recado de Al-Assad|access-date=4 August 2018}} The Duke stated he was invited by President al-Assad with the intention that Duarte Pio relay the Syrian head of state's plans and intents for Syria and its people.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}} Duarte Pio told several Portuguese news outlets that it was the Syrian President's intention to "collaborate on the creation of a future constitution for Syria, close to that of Morocco, which guarantees political, religious, and press freedom."{{Cite web|url=https://sol.sapo.pt/inicio/Internacional/Interior.aspx?content_id=23595|title=Sol – D. Duarte: Ditador Sírio é 'Muito Bem Intencionado'|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219031635/http://sol.sapo.pt/inicio/Internacional/Interior.aspx?content_id=23595|archive-date=19 December 2013|access-date=28 July 2018|url-status=dead}} Alongside communicating the political and reformist intentions of the Syrian President, Duarte Pio stated that President al-Assad was a "good and well-intentioned man" and that "since he has assumed power, he has tried to democratize and humanize politics and [that] he has already achieved great advancements."{{cite web|url=https://videos.sapo.pt/s9unzWPRfKnIOPUTzuFE|title=Mário Crespo entrevista D. Duarte Pio – SAPO Vídeos|website=videos.sapo.pt|access-date=4 August 2018}}

In his capacity as the President of the King Manuel II Foundation, Duarte Pio is often involved with the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, intergovernmental organization for economic, political, and cultural friendship between Portugal and many of its former colonies. In 2009, the Duke petitioned for the King Manuel II Foundation to become a consultative observer within the CPLP, but with no success.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cplp.org/Default.aspx?ID=316&Action=1&NewsId=653¤tPage=102&M=NewsV2&PID=304|title=CPLP – Candidatura da Fundação D. Manuel II a observador consultivo da CPLP|language=pt}} In 2012, Duarte Pio petitioned, with Maria Hermínia Cabral, Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, for their respective organizations to become CPLP consultative observers, to which both succeeded in their endeavor.{{cite web|url=http://noticias.pt.msn.com/politica/cplp-parceria-entre-institui%C3%A7%C3%B5es-%C3%A9-necess%C3%A1ria-para-o-funcionamento-do-f%C3%B3rum-da-sociedade-civil|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216115001/http://noticias.pt.msn.com/politica/cplp-parceria-entre-institui%C3%A7%C3%B5es-%C3%A9-necess%C3%A1ria-para-o-funcionamento-do-f%C3%B3rum-da-sociedade-civil|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 February 2013|title=Notícias MSN – Notícias do dia de Portugal e do mundo. Jornais, revistas, meteorologia, África, euromilhões, ciência e tecnologia -MSN|website=noticias.pt.msn.com|access-date=4 August 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://noticias.sapo.tl/tetum/info/artigo/1252875.html|title=Parseria entre instituisaun sira importante tebtebes ba funsionamentu husi fórum sosiedade sivil nian – Notícias SAPO – SAPO Notícias|website=noticias.sapo.tl|access-date=4 August 2018|archive-date=4 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804140826/http://noticias.sapo.tl/tetum/info/artigo/1252875.html|url-status=dead}} In November 2012, for a meeting of the consultative observers of the CPLP the Duke visited Mindelo, Cabo Verde.[https://web.archive.org/web/20131029193048/http://caboverdedirecto.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1743:visita-pr-recebe-duque-de-braganca&catid=2&Itemid=267 Cabo Verde Directo – PR recebe Duque de Bragança]{{cite web|url=http://www.rtc.cv/index.php?paginas=21&id_cod=5044|title=Duque de Bragança, Dom Duarte visita PR|website=www.rtc.cv|access-date=4 August 2018}} While there, the Duke visited various locations within Cabo Verde, and was received by President Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca.[http://www.binokulu.com/2012/11/08/jorge-carlos-fonseca-recebe-no-palacio-do-plateau-dom-duarte-duque-de-braganca/ Binókulo: Jorge Carlos Fonseca recebe no Palácio do Plateau Dom Duarte, Duque de Bragança] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029184554/http://www.binokulu.com/2012/11/08/jorge-carlos-fonseca-recebe-no-palacio-do-plateau-dom-duarte-duque-de-braganca/ |date=29 October 2013 }}[http://liberal.sapo.cv/noticia.asp?idEdicao=64&id=37426&idSeccao=542&Action=noticia Liberal – Duque de Bragança visita hoje o Presidente da República] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118144222/http://liberal.sapo.cv/noticia.asp?idEdicao=64&id=37426&idSeccao=542&Action=noticia |date=18 November 2012 }} During the visit, Duarte Pio decorated President Almeida Fonseca with the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa.

Duarte Pio often visits various municipalities around the country, in an official charge, for economic and political events. On 14 November 2007, the Duke visited the Santiago do Cacém Municipality and was received with honours by the President of the Municipality, in the Palace of the Concelho.{{cite web|url=http://www.alentejolitoral.pt/PortalRegional/Actualidade/Noticias/Paginas/DDuartePiovisitaSantiagodoCacem.aspx|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130416092439/http://www.alentejolitoral.pt/PortalRegional/Actualidade/Noticias/Paginas/DDuartePiovisitaSantiagodoCacem.aspx|url-status=dead|title=D. Duarte Pio visita Santiago do Cacém|date=16 April 2013|archive-date=16 April 2013|access-date=4 August 2018}} On 11 October 2011, Duarte Pio visited the freguesia of São Pedro de Oliveira, in Braga, and was received with honours by the President of the Freguesia Augusto de Carvalho.{{cite web|url=http://noticias.gazetadeviseu.com/index.php/revistasocial/185245-visita-de-s.a.r.,-o-duque-de-bragan%C3%87a-dom-duarte-pio-a-oliveira-s%C3%83o-pedro.html|title=Gazeta de Visue – Visita de S.A.R., o Duque de Bragança Dom Duarte Pio a Oliveira São Pedro|access-date=4 August 2018}} On 28 March 2012, the Duke and his son, Afonso, Prince of Beira, were guests of honour at the XII Exposition of Folar and Products of the Earth, an exposition staged for the purpose of economic promotion of products from the Valpaços Municipality.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

In 2014, the Court of Lisbon forbade Duarte Pio of Braganza from using the insignia of the Order of Saint Michael of the Wing and demanded that he compensate 300,000 euros to the legal owner of the rights, Nuno da Câmara Pereira, who allegedly registered the name "Order of Saint Michael of the Wing" in 1981, whereas Duarte Pio is said to have registered it in 2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.lux.iol.pt/nacionais/dom-duarte-duarte-pio-braganca-casa-de-braganca-dom-duarte-condenado-tribunal/1542229-4996.html|title=D. Duarte de Bragança condenado pelo Tribunal do Comércio de Lisboa|access-date=4 August 2018}} The condemnation was repeated on 5 October 2015,{{cite web|url=http://pt.scribd.com/doc/284092055/OSMA-Processo-93-07-Aco-rda-o-Do-Supremo-05-10-2015|title=O.S.M.A. – Processo 93.07 – Acórdão do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça 05-10-2015|access-date=4 August 2018}} but on 3 November 2015, the rights of Nuno da Câmara Pereira to the symbols was lost,{{cite web|url=http://www.flashvidas.pt/a_ferver/detalhe/nuno_da_camara_pereira_perde_marca_real.html|title=Nuno da Câmara Pereira perde marca real|first=Marco Pereira, Rute|last=Lourenço|access-date=4 August 2018}} and on 7 December, Duarte Pio of Braganza won the case and regained the legal rights.{{cite web|url=http://www.flashvidas.pt/a_ferver/detalhe/duarte_pio_absolvido_pelo_tribunal.html|title=Duarte Pio absolvido pelo tribunal|last=C.T.|access-date=4 August 2018}}

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Duarte Pio often travels and visits various places, in an official charge, for matters concerning cultural affairs, both in Portugal and overseas. From 24 until 25 May 2009, the Duke visited Terceira Island, in the Azores Autonomous Region, as a guest of honour of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia, for the presentation of Mendo Castro Henriques's book, Dom Duarte e a Democracia – Uma Biografia Portuguesa.{{Cite web|url=http://causamonarquica.com/2009/05/20/a-24-e-25-de-maio/|title=Causa Monárquica – D. Duarte Pio na ilha Terceira|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614150314/http://causamonarquica.com/2009/05/20/a-24-e-25-de-maio/|archive-date=14 June 2013|access-date=14 January 2013|url-status=usurped}} While in Terceira, Duarte Pio was received with honours by the President of the Municipality of Praia da Vitória and attended and visited various cultural and religious institutions and events, including a dinner at the Santa Casa da Misericórdia and assisting in a Portuguese bullfight.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

On 12 September 2011, the Duke, as President of the Henry the Navigator Award, a partner award of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, visited Funchal, in the Madeira Autonomous Region, for an official visit. While there, the Duke was received with honours by Miguel Albuquerque, President of the Municipality of Funchal, visited the Municipal Gardens of Funchal and held a ceremony for the presentation of the Henry the Navigator Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.dnoticias.pt/actualidade/madeira/282088-duque-de-braganca-vem-ao-funchal|title=Duque de Bragança vem ao Funchal|access-date=4 August 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www1.cm-funchal.pt/ambiente/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=382:don-duarte-pio-de-braganca-visita-as-hortas-municipais-do-funchal&catid=4:noticias-espacos-verdes&Itemid=337|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127030934/http://www1.cm-funchal.pt/ambiente/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=382:don-duarte-pio-de-braganca-visita-as-hortas-municipais-do-funchal&catid=4:noticias-espacos-verdes&Itemid=337|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 January 2012|title=Dom Duarte, Duque de Bragança visita Hortas Municipais do Funchal|date=27 January 2012|access-date=4 August 2018}} On 30 September 2011, Duarte Pio visited Vila Franca de Xira, as a guest of honour for the Royal Tourada, and visited various cultural institutions of the municipality, including the Museum of Neo-Realism and the Celeiro da Patriarcal.{{cite web|url=http://semanal.omirante.pt/index.asp?idEdicao=516&id=77994&idSeccao=8526&Action=noticia|title=O duque de Bragança, Dom Duarte Pio, visitou na tarde de sexta-feira, 30 de Setembro|access-date=4 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055914/http://semanal.omirante.pt/index.asp?idEdicao=516&id=77994&idSeccao=8526&Action=noticia|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}} On 8 January 2012, the Duke visited the Vila Verde Municipality, as a special guest of the Association for Regional Development of Minho, where he attended an exhibition on regional culture and products and was presented a traditional Lenço de Namorados, made in 1912.{{Cite web|url=http://www.adereminho.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=233:dom-duarte-pio-de-braganca-visita-adere-minho-e-recebe-lenco-de-namorados-do-minho-certificado-replica-original-de-1912&catid=28:noticias&Itemid=114|title=Adere-Minho – Dom Duarte Pio de Bragança visita Adere-Minho e recebe Lenço de Namorados do Minho certificado (réplica original de 1912)}}

Every year, on 1 December, Restoration Day, the Duke gives his annual speech in honour of the Portuguese Restoration at the dinner of the Forty Conspirators.{{Cite web|url=http://causamonarquica.com/2008/11/29/d-duarte-pio-e-o-1%C2%BA-de-dezembro-entrevista/|title=Causa Monárquica – D Duarte Pio e o 1º de Dezembro|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130701184441/http://causamonarquica.com/2008/11/29/d-duarte-pio-e-o-1%C2%BA-de-dezembro-entrevista/|archive-date=1 July 2013}} [http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20120129144833if_/http://causamonarquica.com/2008/11/29/d%2Dduarte%2Dpio%2De%2Do%2D1%25c2%25ba%2Dde%2Ddezembro%2Dentrevista/ Alt URL] It was on 1 December 1640 that João II, Duke of Braganza, an ancestor of Duarte Pio, deposed the Portuguese House of Habsburg, installed the House of Braganza as the reigning house of Portugal, and restored sovereign rule to Portugal. In his speeches, the Duke reflects on the historical significance of the date, events of the previous year, and the road ahead for both Portugal in general and the monarchist cause. In 2012, Restoration Day ceased to be an official holiday of the Portuguese state, prompting Duarte Pio to speak out against the action, stating that extinction of the official holiday "devalues the day which should unite the Portuguese".{{cite web|url=http://www.publico.pt/politica/noticia/extincao-do-1-de-dezembro-desvaloriza-dia-que-mais-devia-unir-os-portugueses-diz-duarte-pio-1523303|title=Extinção do 1.º de Dezembro desvaloriza dia que mais devia unir os portugueses, diz Duarte Pio|date=30 November 2011 |access-date=4 August 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://noticias.pt.msn.com/politica/extin%C3%A7%C3%A3o-do-1%C2%BA-de-dezembro-desvaloriza-dia-que-mais-devia-unir-os-portugueses-duarte-pio|title=Notícias MSN – Notícias do dia de Portugal e do mundo. Jornais, revistas, meteorologia, África, euromilhões, ciência e tecnologia -MSN|website=noticias.pt.msn.com|access-date=4 August 2018}}{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

On 13 May 1995, Dom Duarte Pio married Isabel Inês de Castro Curvelo de Herédia, a Portuguese businesswoman and descendant of nobility. This was the first marriage of a member of the Portuguese royal family to take place in Portugal since the marriage of King Carlos I in 1886. The ceremony was celebrated in the Monastery of Jerónimos in Lisbon and presided over by Cardinal António Ribeiro, Patriarch of Lisbon. Present at the ceremony were representatives of various European royal and noble houses. These included Prince Philippe of Belgium, Duke of Brabant, Prince Henri, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Infanta Margarita of Spain, Duchess of Soria, among others. The principal Portuguese political figures, including the President of the Republic Mário Soares, Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva, and President of the Assembly António Barbosa de Melo, were also present.

Following her marriage, Isabel de Herédia began a gradual withdrawal from her professional life, a process which was completed by the time her eldest child, Afonso of Braganza, was born. Thereafter, Isabel has devoted herself to the care of her family and the patronage of various charities. Duarte Pio and Isabel de Herédia have three children:

In December 2022, the engagement of Maria Francisca to a Lisbon-based lawyer, Duarte de Sousa Araújo Martins, was announced:{{cite web |title=Would-be King's daughter to wed top lawyer |url=https://www.essential-business.pt/2022/12/16/would-be-kings-daughter-to-wed-top-lawyer/ |website=Essential Business |date=16 December 2022 |access-date=26 May 2023}} the couple married on 7 October 2023 at the Basilica of the Palace of Mafra.{{cite web |title=Les confidences exclusives de Maria Francisca de Bragance et Duarte de Sousa Araújo Martins avant leur mariage |url=https://www.pointdevue.fr/royal/couronnes-du-monde/les-confidences-exclusives-de-maria-francisca-de-bragance-et-duarte-de-sousa-araujo-martins-avant-leur-mariage |website=Point de Vue |access-date=26 May 2023}}

The list below includes line of succession of the Miguelist branch.

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• 15px Miguel I of Portugal (1802–1866)
• Prince Miguel, Duke of Braganza (1853–1927)
• Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza (1907–1976)
• (1) Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (b. 1945)
• (2) Afonso, Prince of Beira (b. 1996)
• (3) Dinis, Duke of Porto (b. 1999)
• (4) Maria Francisca, Duchess of Coimbra (b. 1997)
• (5) Miguel, Duke of Viseu (b. 1946)
• Henrique, Duke of Coimbra (1949–2017)

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• 60x60px Knight Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta{{Cite web |last=admin |title=Casa Real |url=https://casarealportuguesa.org/casa-real/#familia-real |access-date=2025-01-04 |website=Casa Real Portuguesa |language=pt-PT}}
• 60x60px Grand Collar of the Order of Timor-Leste{{cite web|url=http://www.jornal.gov.tl/?q=node/112|title=Decreto Presidente 7/2012|work=Government of East Timor|archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20151115002729/http://www.jornal.gov.tl/?q%3Dnode/112|archive-date=15 November 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=7 February 2016}} (East Timor)
• 60x60px Gold Medal of Merit (Italian Red Cross){{Cite web |url=https://www.cri.it/09-08-2018-visita-ufficiale-del-principe-di-portogallo-alla-croce-rossa-italiana |title=Cri |access-date=1 January 2020 |archive-date=26 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826183000/https://www.cri.it/09-08-2018-visita-ufficiale-del-principe-di-portogallo-alla-croce-rossa-italiana |url-status=dead }}

• 60x60px Grand Master of the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa
• 60x60px Grand Master of the Order of Saint Michael of the Wing
• 60x60px Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (House of Habsburg)
• 60px Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Rose (Brazilian House of Orléans-Braganza){{cite web|url=https://monarquia.org.br/comunicados/comunicado-a-proposito-das-ordens-imperiais-brasileiras-2/|title=Comunicado: A propósito das ordens imperiais brasileiras|date=8 February 2022|access-date=18 July 2022}}
• 60x60px Knight of the Order of Saint Januarius{{cite web|url=http://www.constantinian.org.uk/illustrious-royal-order-of-saint-januarius/|title=Illustrious Royal Order of Saint Januarius – Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George|date=4 October 2012|access-date=4 August 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.borbone-due-sicilie.org/the-royal-orders/st-januarius/membership/index.html|title=Membership|website=www.borbone-due-sicilie.org|access-date=4 August 2018}} (Castroan House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies)
• 60x60px Bailiff Knight Grand Cross with Collar of Justice of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George{{Cite web |url=http://www.constantinianorder.org/history/the-activities-of-the-order-since-1960.html |title=The activities of the Order since 1960 |access-date=6 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210304/http://www.constantinianorder.org/history/the-activities-of-the-order-since-1960.html |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead }} (Calabrian House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies)
• 60x60px Grand Cordon of the Royal and Hashemite Order of the Pearl{{Cite web |title=The Order of the Pearl |url=https://sultanateofsulu.ecseachamber.org/the-order-of-the-pearl/index-1.htm |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=ROYAL SULTANATE OF SULU AND NORTH BORNEO |language=en-US}} (Royal House of Sulu)
• File:Order of the Crown Ribbon Bar.png Grand Cordon of the Royal Order of the Crown (Royal House of La{{okina}}anui) {{cite news|url=http://www.kitv.com/story/38399697/hawaii-honors-the-warrior-king-that-unified-the-hawaiian-islands|title=Hawaii honors the warrior king that unified the Hawaiian islands|author=Kaholokula|first=Lei|date=11 June 2018|access-date=30 June 2018|publisher=KITV 4 Island News|archive-date=7 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807183403/https://www.kitv.com/story/38399697/hawaii-honors-the-warrior-king-that-unified-the-hawaiian-islands|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://pressreleasejet.com/news/Portugal-embraces-Hawaiis-royal-house.html|title=Portugal embraces Hawaii's royal house.|website=pressreleasejet.com|access-date=12 April 2018|archive-date=7 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807181854/https://pressreleasejet.com/news/Portugal-embraces-Hawaiis-royal-house.html|url-status=dead}}

• Heritage Award for Peacemaker from the Sino-Phil Asia International Peace Awards Foundation{{Cite web |title=TDM |url=https://www.tdm.com.mo/en/news-detail/933476?isvideo=false&lang=en&shortvideo=0&category=all |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=www.tdm.com.mo}}

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|5= 5. Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein

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|9= 9. Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein

|10= 10. Charles, Prince of Löwenstein

|11= 11. Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein

|12= 12. Prince Gaston, Count of Eu

|13= 13. Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil

|14= 14. Count Johann Wenzel Dobrženský von Dobrženitz

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{{Reflist}}

• Henriques, Mendo Castro. Dom Duarte e a Democracia: uma biografia portuguesa. Lisbon: Bertrand, 2006. {{ISBN|972-25-1517-9}}
• Mendes, Nuno Canas. Duarte e Isabel, duques de Bragança: biografia autorizada. Mem Martins: Lyon Multimédia Edições, 1995.
• Morais, Jorge. D. Duarte: a primeira biografia. Lisbon: Chiado-Consultores de Informação, 1995.
• Fernandes, Clara Picão. Monarquia hoje?: diálogos com o Duque de Bragança. Lisbon: Editora Civilização, 1995.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20171204171138/http://www.casarealportuguesa.org/En/dynamicdata/default.asp Official site of the Portuguese Royal Family]

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