Being a socialist, she hates what she calls his disbelief in the political system (she is married to a professional politician). She has also been spreading the most infamous gossips about King Pedro's private life (where is that fund-amented, one would ask: Rocha Martins???). Being powerful in political means, she is believed by some. Last weekend, some chronic on a daily newspaper goes on spreading those lies she tells, also without any reliable source mentioned.
Go and do your homework.
-It's homework time again.
Great, I love homework and I have been doing some myself. As a result of it I am forced to conclude you must be close to Filomena Monica, or you would not have such consideration for someone who hates the Portuguese royals so much. Maybe you are Pinto Coelho??? And maybe Dona Antonia is close to another of your loved authors, Marina Tavares Dias. Maybe she is Rodrigues da Silva?
-Maria Filomena Mónica is an independent left-winged person, one of the few I respect.
Her own disbelief in the political system is much higher than the one she credits D.Pedro for.
Oh, that's new! She hates the King and does nothing but state so herself. She was given his biography by Circulo de Leitores and wrote less than the text of the appendix!
-I am sure you are aware of her comments on the very indigent political class we unfortunately have, from the PM to ministers and MP's.
In fact, she seems to hate anything outside her academic sphere of influence.
-Her current husband António Barreto was once a member of the Socialist Party from which he cut every draw bridge and today is a respected independent teacher of sociology and author.
I must laugh at this one! Barreto did not leave the Socialist Party. The Socialist Party left him. He is a political corpse!
-If the gossips on D.Pedro are the ones I am thinking of, I would recommend you the Eduardo Nobre book "Paixões Reais"...
My God, let me laugh more! Nobre is hardly a writer, let alone an Historian. His writing has more spelling errors that a minefield has mines! Another one of your own beloved authors (the Lisboa Desaparecida, remember?), Marina Tavares Dias once woke up with a headache and decided to publish him on her editing house because he lent her some photos of Queen Stephanie. I am still to know how can she sleep nights after that. Nobre has done nothing but throw dirt upon the Portuguese Royals (with th obvious exception of Miguel and his descendants). All he writes about is with whom they go to bed with.
If a person like that is considered a Royal supporter, I hate to think what a Republican must be like.
- I missed her article from last week end. Where was it published and what was the subject ?
It was not from your beloved writer, so be in peace. It was from Pedro Mexia.
It states the same old lies. They are not based on anything, and you are yet to tell me who started spreading them.
Or do you have any prove of the opposite that has escaped from all other historic investigators ?
This lie was not by Rocha Martins. I can tell who is it by: it was allegedly by Queen Maria Pia's doctor, who also allegedly performed an autopsy on Queen Stephanie's corpse. He also allegedly started joking and insulting the dead Queen.
This has only been told by someone who, in 1921, was trying to write about King Pedro V: Julio de Vilhena.
Mr. Vilhena never met Doctor Coutinho of course, since he had been dead for years. Dr. Coutinho never performed Queen Stephanie's autopsy. He was not even there. It is probable that the autopsy never even existed, since D. Pedro V never let anyone perform it.
Even if it had existed, don't you think spying the dead Queen's intimacy would not be necessary to know what she had as a throat disease???
So Nobre doesn't count, as he never investigated a single paper, only copies Rocha Martins to please Marina Tavares Dias. And Monica doesn't count either, because she hates D. Pedro V and follows any clue that can disrespect him, like Julio de Vilhena. No other «reliable sources» that I know of.
My homework is done, José. Go and do yours.
