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of $ 10,000 per year. The Duke of Oporto died in Naples in 1920 having fled there after the
Portuguese Revolution. After the death of the King of Portugal Nevada petitioned the republican government – to no avail – to grant her all the royal family's funds as she considered herself its senior member.
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was buried next to his murdered brother, the late King. In 1935 the
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