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'''[[Amélie of Leuchtenberg]]''' (1812–1873) was a French noblewoman and [[List of Brazilian royal consorts|Empress of Brazil]] as the wife of [[Pedro I of Brazil|Emperor Pedro&nbsp;I]]. She was the fourth child of [[Eugène de Beauharnais]] and his wife [[Princess Augusta of Bavaria]]. After the defeat of [[Napoleon]] in 1814, her father, having been granted the title of [[Duke of Leuchtenberg]] by his father-in-law, settled in [[Munich]]. When Pedro's first wife, [[Maria Leopoldina of Austria]], died in 1826, he sent an ambassador to Europe to find him a second. Pedro's relatively poor reputation in Europe led to several refusals by princesses, and his union with Amélie resulted from a lowering of his strict conditions. They were married in 1829 and she moved to Brazil to be presented in court. Her husband [[Abdication of Pedro I of Brazil|abdicated the throne in 1831]] and the couple returned to Europe. Their daughter [[Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil|Maria Amélia]] was born shortly after. Pedro died in 1834 and Amélie did not remarry, living the rest of her life in Portugal. This oil-on-canvas portrait of Amélie, produced in the 1830s by the German painter [[Friedrich Dürck]], is now in the [[Soares dos Reis National Museum]] in [[Porto]], Portugal.
<p style="text-align:left;"><small>Painting credit: [[Friedrich Dürck]]</small></p>
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