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Status as a Brazilian Prince and inclusion in the Brazilian Princes template[edit]
Why is Prince August Leopold, or Dom Augusto (Leopoldo) as he is known in Brazil, not included in the template that lists Brazilian Princes? He is a descendant of Pedro I born in the Empire of Brazil, and under the Constitution of the Empire he was a both a Brazilian national (having been born in Brazil) and a Brazilian Prince (as a descendant of Pedro I who was not a foreigner). His birth as a Prince of the Empire of Brazil was even formally communicated to the General Assembly by Emperor Pedro II in the 1868 Speech from the Throne, and he had his place in the line of succession: after Princess Imperial Isabel, her descendants, his own mother, Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, and his elder brother, Prince Dom Pedro Augusto. Prince Pedro Leopoldo was born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as a grandson of the Monarch (Emperor Dom Pedro II), and was the son of a Brazilian Princess, Dona Leopoldina. Surely he and his brothers born in Brazil need to be included in the template of Brazilian Princes, and the said template needs to be included at the bottom part of the present article. The article also needs to be amended to recognize his status as a Brazilian Prince and his upbringing in the Empire of Brazil. After all, Princess Leopoldina and her husband moved to Europe shortly after August Leopold's birth, but in 1872 it was decided that the couple's two oldest children should be raised in Brazil under the supervision of their imperial grandparents, so as to be educated as eventual successors to the Brazilian Crown, and, accordingly, August Leopold and his elder brother Peter arrived back in Brazil in April 1872 and lived in Brazil until the abolition of the Monarchy in 1889. Their were thus raised as Brazilian Princes, and always used their names in the language format. When Prince August served in the Austro-Hungarian Navy after the abolition of the Brazilian Monarchy, he did so as a Brazilian Prince and citizen, and obtained a special dispensation from Emperor Franz-Joseph I to serve the Austrian Navy as a foreigner. He and his descendants continued to use the name of the Imperial House of Braganza, and, upon Baptism, his children received as the last given names the names "Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga" (Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Gonzaga) or the corresponding female forms, a tradition of the House of Braganza. So, this article is not accurate, unless and until it reflects Prince August's status as a Brazilian prince. Finally, this article can be expanded using information from the Portuguese language wikipedia.189.60.96.41 (talk) 01:26, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
