Carlota Joaquina - Princesa Do Brasil -1995- -

She is Carlota Joaquina. Princesa do Brasil. And she is still plotting.

In 1995, for one strange moment, she becomes a pop icon. A feminist anti-hero before her time. A princess who refused to be pretty, refused to be quiet, refused to be Portuguese. Carlota Joaquina - Princesa do Brasil -1995-

But in 1995, a year of Real stability and the ashes of hyperinflation, Brazil is trying to forget its royal past. The country has just elected a president with no memory of the monarchy. The last imperial heirs live in quiet exile in Petrópolis, selling furniture. She is Carlota Joaquina

She wanted to rule Brazil alone. She wanted to merge it with the Spanish territories, to carve a new Amazonian empire under her own flag. She failed. History remembers her as the wicked stepmother of the Braganza dynasty—scheming, ugly, monstrous. In 1995, for one strange moment, she becomes a pop icon