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Royal Houses of Europe

Braganza, Bourbon, Habsburg, Hanover–Windsor and Hohenzollern across five centuries. Follow a marriage from Lisbon to Vienna, see where cousins married, and what life was like where each was born.

people
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places
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Open Pedro II's tree
Pedro II of Brazil, Portrait
Pedro II of Brazil · PortraitHis pictures

Four ways into Pedro II's family

Each room opens at the person at the centre. Change the centre and every room follows.

Tree
Pedro II's family, above and belowParents to the right, children to the left, every line marked by how sure we are.Fan
His ancestors, ring by ringEach ring a generation. Gaps show who is still to find; repeated ancestors are hatched.Routes
From Viseu to Rio de JaneiroWhere each generation was born, joined parent to child on a globe.PicturesPictures of him and his familyPortraits, photographs and prints, each tagged with the people in it.

Pictures

All 3,684 pictures

Pictures that show him, his family and the places of his life. Each one is tagged with the people in it.

Pedro II of Brazil
Pedro II of Brazil
Pedro I of Brazil · Father
Pedro I of Brazil · Father
Maria Leopoldina of Austria · Mother
Maria Leopoldina of Austria · Mother
Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies · Wife
Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies · Wife
Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil · Son
Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil · Son

Faces from the collection

Portraits from Wikimedia Commons, each linked to its record. The moving ones are animated by AI from the original.

Lives behind the portraits

Each biography opens on the person’s page in this museum, every paragraph tied to the records it rests on.