Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies
Dona Teresa Cristina delle Due Sicilie was the Empress consort of Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil, who reigned from 1831 to 1889. The Empress was sent into exile after a coup d’état staged by a clique of army officers in 1889. Grieving and ill, she died of respiratory failure leading to cardiac arrest little more than a month after the monarchy’s...
