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I didn't express well, I said "members of the Imperial Family" but I meant it in the broadest sense, I know they cannot be Princes of Brazil.They would never be members of the Imperial Family, because Prince Eudes ceased to be a Prince of Brazil when he renounced his Dynastic rights, in 1966. His Royal Highness is "just" a Prince of Orleans-Braganza.
Do you know why the marriage wasn't recognized exactly? Just because it wasn't a religious wedding or there was some other reason?But yes, the exclusion of Mrs. Mercedes de Orleans e Bragança and her descendents from the Order of Precedence is because she and Prince Eudes haven't married religiously.
Their marriage wasn't recognized by Prince Eudes' father, Prince Pedro Henrique, then the Head of the Imperial House, nor by the late Prince Pedro Gastão of Orleans-Braganza, who, by the time, was the Head of the House of Orleans-Braganza.
I wonder because in the Order of Precedence are listed the second wife of Prince Francisco Humberto d'Orléans-Bragança and their two daughters, whose situation seems to be the same as the situation of Prince Eude's wife and children.