Hi Regina
I've read your previous posts.
You don't like particularly D.Duarte.
That's your opinion and I must respect it.
But it seems you want to impose a candidate that never considered stepping forward.
When D.Duarte was still a bachelor, the press talked of a meeting where D.Francisco insisted with D.Duarte either to get married or to appoint Francisco's son as a heir to the throne succession
, and Francisco comitted himself to educate his son as a future heir.
I guess that the fact that he wanted D.Duarte to appoint Afonso to be in line for the throne speaks for itself
.
The relations between the two cousins were a bit tense at the time as
D.Duarte had not set aside the idea of getting married and starting a family.
Time prooved him right .
He did got married
and had 3 lovely children .
The van Uden family kept its status quo within the RF which is not the same as saying they were successors to the throne .
In an interview, Infanta D.Maria Adelaide once said that she presented to D.Duarte Nuno the fait-accompli
that she had got married without asking her brother's previous approval.
Times were difficult, it was the end of WW2 and communications were scarce
.
According to the Infanta, D.Duarte Nuno later aprroved the marriage.
But as van Uden was dutch, that did not allow his children to be in line to the throne, as it did not allow his Thurn und Taxis nephews or the children of Infanta D.Antónia.
The Bragança-van Udens later applied for portuguese citizenship, some on the ground that they were born in Portugal, the elder on the ground that their Mother was Portuguese.
Ooooops, how could the Infanta be Portuguese
and D.Duarte Nuno not ?
Anyway, as Francisco van Uden doesn't seem at all interested in opening any breeches in the RF and the monarchic movement, he can remain your "Charming Prince"
, a well of vertues and intelligence, but, nevertheless, the candidate that never was.
"The RF's invite him to the weddings, etc, because he is related with most of these RF's. "
He is related to them in the same degree as Francisco van Uden.
They are first cousins.
(Apart from his brazilian relatives on D.Duarte's Mother side)
"He still has not the right to support anyone else"
That I cannot understand.
He is not a claimant to the throne.
Neither are his sons, brothers and nephews.
He recognizes D.Duarte as the Head of the Family and you still say he has not the right to support anyone else ?
"his ancestors and uncles/gr.uncles who were born in Germany/Austria"
while Infanta D.Maria Adelaide was born in France.
That changes everything
"He says incredible things in his interviews like "I say what I want because I don't need votes" "
Well, I like people who say what they want - at a certain degree - without being always trying to say the politically correct, the most hypocrit concept ever discovered.
Politicians do not say what they want or what they think.
They are always trying to get your vote
and tell you what YOU want to hear, even if it is 100% false.
Thank goodness D.Duarte does not need to twist his concience
and can speak with entire freedom .