^1838 Portuguese constitutiondeclared, with respect to فرديناند الثاني ملك البرتغال's issue by his first wife, that 'the Most Serene House of Braganza is the reigning house of Portugal and continues through the Person of the Lady Queen Maria II'. Thus their mutual descendants constitute the Coburg line of the House of Braganza" نسخة محفوظة 17 أكتوبر 2015 على موقع واي باك مشين.