Born the Archduchess of Austria, Maria Leopoldina was a great painter and also grew up studying subjects such as botany and mineralogy. By virtue of her marriage to Pedro I of Brazil and IV of Portugal, she became the queen of Portugal and the empress of Brazil.
Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, also known as the Mother of the Brazilians, was the wife of Brazilian emperor Dom Pedro II The Magnanimous and the daughter of King Don Francesco I of Sicily. Exiled after the collapse of the Brazilian monarchy, she died of a cardiac arrest shortly after.