"CARLOTA JOAQUINA PRINCESA DO BRAZIL Translation and Review by Angel" "Yolanda!" "Yolanda, look, come off it." "Do not be angry." "I am sorry." "I swear I will never laugh at you dancing again." "Come on, Yolanda, do not be angry." "I said I was sorry." "Look at me." "Will you?" "All right, look, Yolanda, you win." "I will give you my Robert Burns." " I do not want it." " You do not want my Burns." "Well, that is just fine, Yolanda!" "Just fine!" "Hey, Yolanda, look." "There in the sea!" "It is a bottle!" "If there is a map inside, we can find a treasurer, become extremely rich!" "Come get it!" "All right." "I will go." "I got it!" "Oh, look, Yolanda, it is just apiece of an old book on Dali." "Look, look at that." "Not a fan of Dali." "Are you?" "Look, listen to this." ""No, I never went to Brazil because I heard, there are huge butterflies."" " That sucks people's brains." " Really?" "Oh, yeah!" "Do not you know it?" "Of all Brazilian problems, a huge butterfly is the worst." "You see, once I was just calmly walking down the street." "When suddenly this great blue butterflies come down from above and attack me." "Suck my brain out of my ears!" "You are silly girl!" "Of course, there is no such thing as giant butterflies in Brazil." "I know many stories about Brazil." "Do you want to hear one?" " It is about a Princess." " But in Brazil, there are not Princesses." "Yes, yes, Yolanda, but Brazil had Princess some time ago." " Was she an Indian princess?" " No, she was Spanish." "And she was your age when she left Spain to get married." " She was ten!" " She was ten years old, poor little thing." "And, her name was Carlota Joaquina and, she danced really well, Yolanda." "And, she had this impossible temper." "Just like you." "And, her mother was incredible." "Maria Luiza de Parma." "Italian blood and this huge sexual appetite." "Which invaded the court of king?" "Carlos III of Spain." "Maria Luiza was also famous." "For wearing pearls in place of her rotten teeth." "And, that night was really important for Carlota." "Why?" "Well, because it was her last party in Spain." "Her marriage arranged." "She was leaving wedding to a Portuguese prince." "And, because of that, she had to go through a test in front of the court." "Everybody gather to watch Carlota dance with such grace." "She would never know that happiness again, Yolanda." "It was the moment of calm before the storm." "That would sweep many of the monarchies of Europe." "Within a few years, royal heads would chop off." "By the new spirit of Liberalism." "The old world of absolute monarchy was drawing to an end?" "And, no one came to signify that ends more." "Than Carlota Joaquina." "Carlota, my child, each day you dance better." "I believe you will not need to do any test in the Portuguese court." " Do you believe so, dear mother?" " Of course, my daughter!" "Enough, Carlota, shut up!" "The paint is the only thing left." "Go back to your place!" "Please, infant Carlota." "Who was Velasquez?" "Diego Velasquez was born in Seville in 1599." "Got married in 1618, graduated as master-painter in 1623." "Carlota knew everything." "She knew about Velasquez, and Cervantes." "The Bible back to front." "The court was most impressed before such prodigy." "Mother, I would like to have a picture just like infant Margarita." "But with a red dress." "This is much more beautiful." " One day you will have a picture like this." " Before I go to a Portugal, mother." "Sure, sure." "Before you go to a Portugal." " So, let us go at the party!" " Let us go, music!" "Highness!" "Highness, please!" "Highness, I have with me the portrait of the infant." "And the signed contract to give them the Infant." "But first, I would like to congratulate the Infant for your brilliant performance." "Carlota learns fast." "Mr. Marquis." "Sometimes, her fastness is dangerous." "Wait." "Carlota." " Will not you open it yet?" " Grandpa, I would like to open it alone, please." "It is okay." "Goodnight, darling." "Goodnight, grandpa." "Goodnight, Mr. Marquis." " Goodnight." "And, once again congratulations infant." " Thank you." "Very well, Mr. Marquis." "Carlota will leave on April 27, as agreed." "How about the health of the infant?" "Is she better from the measles?" "She is fine, Highness, She is fine." "However, he got sick again." "And, according to the letter, I received." "She resorted to bloodletting for the fourth time." "For the fourth time!" "It seems to me, Mr. Marquis, That the infant's health is not very good." "Do not worry, Highness." "4 or 5 bloodletting in Portugal mean 1 in Spain." "Do not you think, Mr. Marquis?" "That this is dangerous." "Highness knows that I am Portuguese and I know Spain." "It is exactly like the same." "The Portuguese people, do 4 to 5." "The Spanish people do only one." "Very well, Mr. Marquis." "I hope you keep me informed of the health of the infant." "Goodnight and enjoy the party." "Thank you very much, Highness." "Goodnight." "Do you think I am ugly?" "Francesca?" "Of course not, infant." "You are so intelligent!" "You were brilliant with your answers before the court." "I am not talking about intelligence, Francesca." "I am asking you about beauty." "Francesca tells me who is prettier." "Am infant Margarita or I?" "I do not remember very well the picture of infant Margarita." "I have never pay attention much to that picture." "Oh, no?" "So let us see it right now." "I want you to answer me!" "Ugly?" "However, was she ugly?" "Ugly?" "She well known as the ugliest infant in Europe." "Think well about what you will answer me, Francesca." "The infant could punish me for my answer?" "Of course, Francesca!" "If it displeases me, I can have all your bones to be broken." "And later, when you are almost dead, you will not have." "Dessert for many days." "Of course you are the most beautiful, infant!" "You are lucky to be clever, Francesca." "However, regardless." "When my picture painted, I will order the painter." "To make me even more beautiful than infant Margarita." "Let us go, infant!" "I am going, infant." "And I will marry a beautiful prince in Portugal." "Infant Carlota, let us go." "Everyone is ready." "Goodbye, infant Margarita, goodbye." "I am ready." "I am ready." "However, dear mother." "When are they painting my portrait with my dress red?" "Do not worry about this." "Now think of your husband." "Quick, Carlota!" "Everyone is ready." "Let us go!" "Goodbye, my darling, goodbye." "You do not ever forget." "You are Bourbon." "I will not forget, grandpa." "I will never forget." "Francesca, did you see my the new shoes?" "Mom had done for me." "Now I have one for each day of the year!" "Yes." "Yes infant." "It was a long journey." "Carlota and Francesca set out from Madrid." "And went west through Toledo and Badajoz." "And then continued down to the frontier of Olivença and Évora." "Where the Portuguese and Spanish world separated." "Look, Francesca, the prince looks very handsome." " Do not you think the same?" " Very handsome, infant, very handsome." " Why did we stop?" " Madam, the infant is expecting." " Do I look good, Francesca?" "Do I look good?" " Wonderful!" "Welcome to the Kingdom of Portugal, infant." "Thank you very much." "Did you do a good trip?" "Yes, yes, I singing with Francesca." "And, besides, I was greeted a lot along the way." "Do you need anything?" "No." "We may continue the journey." "Is it far?" "No, no." "Only half an hour." "If you excuse me, I will be going to along you." "Francesca, the Prince is completely different!" "What a big nose!" "You do not worry about this now, infant." "You do not worry." "Grandpa, I want to go back home." "Oh, Mother of God!" "Look how are so beautiful!" "How so beautiful are your presents, infant!" "Look at this!" "Yes, it is true, Francesca." "Mainly the Pony." "Damn, Francesca!" "Have you seen how short is the queen is black Pony." "No, she is not that short." "You have almost the same height!" "Fuck, Francisca!" "If you say that again, I will have the dwarf breaks all your bones!" "Forgive me, infant, I had the wrong impression." "I did not pay enough attention." "It is okay, Francesca, I forgive you only because your slip was very small." " Thank you." " Help me, Francesca." "Help me!" "Presents, many presents." "Every noble family in the land sent jewels, gold and silk." "To welcome the new infant." "When Carlota looked around." "She discovered the Portuguese court." "Was different from the Spanish court." "Everything seemed to be quiet and sad." "No one danced, no one spoke or laughed." "They would just chew their strange food." "They seemed to be whispering all the time." "They whispered because their king was dying." "The court despairingly needed to marry someone to his or her heir Don José." "And the only person available was Dona Maria's sister." "Maria Benedict, who was just 20 years older than him." "Poor sickly Don José." "Two weddings held at the same time." "In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit." "Amen." "So, if mom said so, you would have to marry me." "Marry you, you skinny little thing!" "No way!" "I do not think the man has been born yet who is going to marry you!" "Anyway, you are a pain as well." "Look, just sit up and listen to the story." "What you do not know is that Carlota got to her wedding night." "With no idea of what was supposed to happen." " Nobody told her." " Nobody told her." "Yes, and I suppose you know exactly what goes on a wedding night, Yolanda?" "Of course!" "The man introduces his penis into the vagina of the woman." "Yes, Yolanda, yes, yes, exactly." "That is exactly what is supposed to go on." "Anyway, so, that night, when all of this was supposed to happen." "It did not." "Instead, what happened was she bit a piece of his ear?" "Jesus!" "John!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "My God!" "This girl is the devil." "Help him!" "Help the infant!" "Are you okay?" "Infant." " Next time, I will kill him." " Infant, he is your husband." "I know, but if he tries it again." "He will be my dead husband." " But was he a pervert?" " Don John is a pervert." "On the contrary, she was more women like, so chubby and sweet." "He would spend all his days gazing at flowers." "Praying or thinking about food." "He never got a good education like his brother." "Who was supposed to be the next king?" "But fate, however, was going to change everything." "Dark clouds covered the skies of Portugal." "The king Don Pedro III died, so did Don José." "And because of that Don John was going to be the next king." "But for queen Maria I. It was all too much." "She sank deep into the pressure after the deaths of her husband and her beloved son." "And since then was known as Mad Maria I." "She was very religious and weak-willed." "And the fate of her country and all her a dominion left to her." "Confessors and the Church." "And because of them." "She spent lots of money building churches and." "Financing uncountable processions." "And you know, Yolanda, what she did to pay off her debts with God?" "She would wash the feet of the poor beggars." "Trying to overcome her feeling of guilty." "Jesus!" "Jesus!" "I failed them!" "I failed them!" "Easy, my woman, easy!" "The devil is gone already." "Francisca, take the guitar, I am going to sing for the queen." "What is going on here!" "Stop the music!" "The queen is sick." "I am okay here." "I know she is there." " I went away and she is there." " Do not worry, Highness." "I will be by your side all the time." "I will not allow him to take you." "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name." "Your kingdom come, your will be done," "On earth, as it is in heaven." "Give us this day our daily bread." "Fuck it, Francisca!" "We shall finish the music." "Because good music is not meant stopped." "The years went by just like that." "Carlota turned into a woman." "A lame one, after she fell of a horse, however, anyway, time came to." "Consummate her marriage with John." " Poor thing!" " Do not pity her." "She was happy." "She was a woman then with big breasts and a body on fire." "John, bastard, will you sleep instead of kissing me?" "Are you sure that is really what you want, Carlota?" "Carlota was a dragon." "She had many lovers, lots of them." "She could eat any one of them like a crazy monster!" "Because of her lovers many were Carlota's children?" "Not so many Don John." "The first one, Maria Teresa." "Was surely his, and was his favorite for all his life." "Nine babies?" "Yeah, nine." "And one her most famous cases." "Was with the gardener of the Quinta do Ramalho." "Whom she preferred to see dead than married." "You will not get married!" "You will not get married!" "A council of doctors had declared the queen was mad." "Jesus!" "The queen is mad!" " The queen is mad!" " The queen is mad!" "Don John was a coward." "He panicked when he realized." "He was going to be prince regent." "He locked himself up until him found the strength." "To assume the regency of Portugal." "But if the ideas of the French Revolution has already reached the colonies." "Consider the case of conspiracy by the officers in Minas Gerais, there must be many more." "Like Tiradentes conspiring against you at this moment." "It is better that the court be in the colony." "To prevent any movement of independence." "After all, Brazil is much richer, larger than Portugal." "I think that the court should go to Brazil." "My dear lord, you do not worry." "I have already taken some actions regarding the colony and I did it with violence." "Tridents taken care of and will certainly is an example." "For anyone that was willing to follow him." "Besides." "Any kind of printing is forbidden in Brazil." "And books leaving from Portugal seriously selected." "I would also like to remind your Majesty that." "The council I give you comes from London." "It is good that you are here, John." "It is good!" "I came to say that I will not go to Brazil." "I will not go!" "I know that you want to take me there." "However, I will not go!" "I will not go!" "I will not go!" "I have said that I will not go to Brazil." " Calm down, Maria, calm down." " Get off me!" "Get off me, you!" "I will not go!" "Look at the animals." "That walk through the streets of Brazil." "They will devour the children." "To Brazil I will not go!" "I will not go!" "Get off me!" "Jesus!" "Jesus!" "Jesus!" "John, if you are considering it, if it imposed." "We moving to Brazil, I warn you that you will go without me!" "I will never be the princess of Brazil!" " Did she spit on him?" " Yes, my sweet." "She spat on him good and strong." "And who was the English man?" "That was the man chosen by the British to torment." "The fearful Portuguese king." "Lord Stanford." "A minister with fire in his hair, in his character." "Then, Napoleon began to show his claws." "You are Royal Highness, before these events." "Must choose between the Continent and the Islanders." "If you're Highness decides irreversibly for the public interest." "I will ensure to you the preservation of your power." "However, if, contradicting my hopes." "Your Highness places trust in my enemies." "It would only left for me to leave at the mercy of events." "The decision on the most important concerns." "Your brother and cousin, Napoleon." "Brother and cousin?" "Please, majesty, France or England?" "Dear minister, Marquis." "When we do not know exactly what to do." "It is best to do nothing." "Dear ministers, I ask you to reflect on the subject." "Can you believe, Yolanda?" "That it took Don John." "20 days to write a letter to Napoleon?" "He was in a tight spot, not knowing what to do." "You see, England was the great enemy of Napoleon's imperial dream." "He wanted an alliance with the rest of the countries on the continent." "In order to isolate the great island and watch it sink." "And how was he to do this?" "By not letting England." "Have commercial relations with any other country." "Portugal was already dominated by the English." "Don John ended up with another big problem in his little fat hands." "How to please his enemies and allies at the same time?" "England gave the solution." "And you really believe we will be able to fool Napoleon?" "Certainly." "To all effects, the Portuguese will be expelling the English." "Confiscating their goods." "However, no one will know." "That you are Highness had secretly pay them to do this." "And Don John, thinking himself very smart, obeyed England." "Show what is in the bag to the ministers." "I want to make sure it is enough to present the emperor." "We cannot rely on the Portuguese." "They are much attracted to France and may betray us." "You had better tell the good news to the king at once." "FRANCE AND SPAIN SHARE PORTUGAL" "The order is either we take the royal family to Brazil immediately." "We destroy the Portuguese fleet to let not the French make use of it." "They must be crossing the Portuguese border right now." "Was it for this you locked with your ministers all these days?" "For deciding to run?" "Bullshit!" "Let us stay and face Napoleon!" "Who?" "Whom do you respect?" "A nobody that the French, after killing." "Maria Antoinette, decided to call emperor." "Son of a bitch!" "To me, the French voting is worth nothing, nothing, nothing!" "I do not give a shit for the French." "I do not give a shit for Napoleon!" "Do you want known?" "As the fleeing king?" "Is that it?" "I would rather known as fleeing king than dead king." "Thank God, I have few children with your blood." "Do not you ever get tired?" "Of hurting me, Carlota?" "I am not hurting you." "I am just telling the truth." "The Royal Family decided to leave in 48 hours." "Then it started to rain." "It was as if, the world had ended." "I feel like God is telling that I should not leave Portugal." " The skies are falling over our heads." " But, my lord." "The treasure has already been boarded as you designated." "The ships are almost ready." "It is safer if your Highness is in a ship." "The French are on their way." "God knows your soul is pure and that you took the wisest decision." "I will not go to Brazil." "I will not go." "Not since the Lisbon earthquake had the city known such pandemonium?" "The people on the streets went mad." "They wanted to go along with their king, however, there were not enough ships." "I am here with you." "Don John was so afraid of the thunder." "That he blindfolded on his way to the boat." "And he left his people without as much as a word." "So people left shouting and running around." "It was a nightmare, Yolanda, a terrible nightmare." "They packed away the Royal Library manuscripts." "Silver, gold, so many things." "That they forgot most of their luggage, their clothes and their food." "And the little black dwarf, crying completely abandoned." "Like all the rest of the Portuguese people." "When the guns of Napoleon's armies could hear in Lisbon." "The Royal Family was on its way to the richest colony of all." "The land of precious woods, and gold, and diamonds." "Brazil!" "And how many ran away?" "Many..." "Maybe 15 thousand." "There were 36 ships in all." "Ranging from warships to merchant ships, brigantines." "And the British fleet, captained by admiral sir Sidney Smith." "But because of the tempests, the wind, the lack of wind." "The ships got lost from each other and arrived in Brazil at different times." "Son of a bitch!" "The first members of the Monarchy that crossed the Atlantic really had a hard time." "No food, no water, and this big round sun." "Over their heads full of lice." "Please, do not talk about lice!" "However, Yolanda, Carlota got to Brazil and her head all bandaged up because of lice." "People thought she was starting some kind of new fashion from Europe." " Really?" " Yeah, and three months later." "Land hoe!" "They arrived in Bahia." "Carlota detested the country the moment she set foot on it." "Maybe because she did not like black people." "Don John, on the other hand." "Seemed intrigued by the racial mixture that he found there." "But, as she wouldn't stay in Bahia, they sailed straight to Rio de Janeiro." "Where people were anxiously waiting for them." "And the Indians where waiting for them." "Many Indians, many Europeans, many Africans." "Some Chinese and probably even two or three Scots." "Even so, Carlota was going to find among them." "The greatest love of her life:" "Fernando Carneiro Leão." "A beautiful and rich black man." "Everybody was merrily waiting for the court." "The city decorated with rugs and flowers." "Daddy!" "The princess!" "The princess is coming!" "Where are the tissues for the window?" "The princess is coming and our window will be the only one without tissues." "Look, mommy!" "The princess has short hair and has a white cap." "Come on, kids, let Us take a closer look at the prince." "Come on!" "You bunch of fools!" "Do not you see they came here only?" "They could steal from us more closely!" "And what to do with all the unexpected people." "Who came along with the Royal Family?" "There were no available places, Yolanda." "No hotels, or motels, or anything." "So the royal police found a way." "This house has been requested by the prince regent to accommodate the court." "You have 24 hours to leave the house, taking only the family's objects of personal use with you." "Did you hear that, Maria do Céu?" "The prince wants our home!" "Oh, thank God!" "This house had the honor of chosen by the prince regent to accommodate the court." "You have 24 hours to leave the house, taking only the family's objects of personal use with you." "Is that all that was in the English ships?" "The rest will bring here tomorrow." " Do you speak Spanish, captain?" " A little." "How do you like the house?" "I have never been in such a poor house." "My God!" "However, look at the view, princess!" "For a country of monkeys, black and Indians." "The view is not the worst!" "What is this?" "What is this!" "Do not worry, your Highness." "I shall kill them." "I will not stay here, mom!" "Correia, take the things out of the mule at once." "Come on!" "It is not that bad." "Right?" "We just do a little cleaning, right, daddy." "Put a few little curtains over there." "It is going to be as merry as our other house." "It is true." "Chubby, come here, chubby." "Look such beautiful thing." "Jesus!" "That is it." "The second "leave the house" of the day." "Don John, make you at home." "Be our guest." "But this is not a chicken, this is a sick fowl." " I want this fat one." " Those are for the royal chicken coop." "However, it is for a chicken soup for my dad." "He is sick." "I pay more." "I cannot." "They belong to the king until the end of the year." "All right." "So give me this pity one." "God forbid!" "Must be a sin to kill a little animal like this." "Wait!" "Wait!" "Will the king eat all this?" "You could sell me one." "My daddy is sick." "Okay, okay." "I will sell you this one for ten." "Ten!" "However, chickens have always coasted three." "I was doing you a favor." "If you do not want it." "Fine!" "One more for the king." "Come on, move." "That is how it was for the Brazilian people." "Homeless, food less, and the economical confusion started." "The merchants took advantage of the situation." "The prices went sky high, so high that the Brazilians could hardly afford them." "And to make things worse, Yolanda." "The people on the streets." "Had to learn how to behave properly in the presence of a princess." "Kneel!" "Kneel!" "Meanwhile, in that searing heat in the middle of the jungle." "Don John and his ministers plotted what to do." "With all the Brazilian natural riches." "However, that did not seem enough." "No, Yolanda, not for the English crown." "Lord Stanford, with orders from above, also wanted the provinces of La Plata." "You see, Yolanda, England was always on the lookout for new territories." "If we can expand our territory in twice the lands taken from me." "We will have a new world in our hands!" " Of course." " Very good." "I will talk immediately with princess Carlota." "She needs advice." "Majesty, allow me." "The expenses we have been having here." "Even with the taxes, are too large, and the money we brought from Portugal will end." "Your Highness, allow me, like you did with the lord." "Why do not you found a bank?" "Great idea!" "Great idea!" "Nothing better than a bank to make money." "Look for the 20 richest man of Rio de Janeiro." "Tell them the prince will found a bank." "Bank of the United Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil." "Bank of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarva." "Bank Don John!" " Perfect!" " Good!" "Bank of Brazil!" " Bank of Brazil!" " Marvelous!" " Want to fudge." " Sure." "Did Brazilian people use golden bars to pay for things in the street?" "Yeah, of course, they used golden bars, they even used gold powder." "You see, Brazil was very rich in gold at that time." "And Don John, well aware of this fact, wanted it all in his pockets." "So he founded the Bank of Brazil." "Which he later almost broke when he left Brazil, the poor bank." "Can we leave?" "Yes, Majesty." "The rest of the cargo is on its way to the ships." "It was a strange way to leave the country that he said he loved." "What happened to the Brazilian gold?" "Well, Portugal and England split it fifty." "However, forget about that." "Look." "Carlota was completely in love with the English captain." "She went." "Highness!" " What do you want, Felisbindo?" " Message from the king!" "Prepare the horse." "Thank you." "This meeting will not be very useful." "I would never do anything against my family." "The provinces of Plata are Spanish." "Lord, explain everything to Carlota." "She is too grumpy!" "Princess, this is something much greater than an offense to your family." "By the contrary, it is a way of defending your family and the Iberian interests." "From the claws of Napoleon." "Who I am sure will be soon." "In the Americas." "This is the first time that an English proposal seems interesting to me." "But who is this man that can hear our secret plans?" "This is José Presas, recently returned from La Plata." "This is the person we think most to assist you Majesty in writing your manifest." "Presenting your Royal Highness to the Spanish people and indeed to the Universe." "As the heir to the Spanish Crown, in the absence of your brothers." "Highness!" "A Spanish, finally!" "It seems that the tropical heat did you good, Lord Stanford." "For this end you may use the registry of Rio de Janeiro." "This is closed, but may use still." "Queen." "I shall be queen of the Plata!" "In Brazil, Don John gave away more titles of nobility." "Than the whole Portuguese dynasty in all its history." "At that time, almost everybody had a title." "That being the only way Don John could afford the services rendered to him." "Because of your help and dedication to the crown." "You are now the royal cartographer, with the title of Viscount of Pig Killing." "We receive this title with great honor, Majesty." "Mr. Correia that contributed to the manifests leaving on time." "This is his charming wife, Dona Custódia." "Sir, I think I found the perfect place for your hunt." "Sir, there are so many birds here." "That one will land on your sight for sure!" "Great, Lobato." "I would like to be under that tree." "Do as he wishes!" "Your Highness would like me to stay." "Do that investigation you asked." "Go, Lobato." "Go and pay attention." "Tell the slaves to stay far." "They will not bother me." "Don John felt uncomfortable with the idea of Carlota having any power." "And with the idea of her having a friendship with that English admiral." "I am doing fine!" "That is the second already." "Princess!" "Is this how you greet me now." "Not even a kiss, my captain." "I am very sorry, you are Highness, however, I do not understand it very well." "The prince wants to have a serious conversation with you." "Highness, I can explain everything." "Please, captain, just listen." "For your services." "Which were a great help to our escape." "The prince endorses you with a farm in Santa Luzia beach." "The prince was very smart in own way." "Making gifts was his way of keeping off Carlota's lovers." "What the hell!" "What is wrong with fucking John?" " What is it, princess?" " Look, look!" "My dear and lovely wife." "Unfortunately, I do not have enough resources to help you in the matter of Plata." "Your beloved husband, that loves you very much, John." "Son of a bitch!" "What will I do Presas?" "I know this shit prince very well." "When it comes to politics and business, he has two faces." "He is learning with the English!" "Remember, the English are interested in the silver market." "The princess should do as queen Isabel de Castela." "And donate your jewelry to the cause of Plata." "As she did to conquer America." "Nobody would buy those jewels." "Don John had given orders to all dealers in Rio not to accept them." "I am afraid I do not have enough to buy them." "However, Viscount, you known." "For being the richest among the rich here." "I am sorry, princess, but there is I can do nothing." "However, a ship arrived from Spain with good news for Carlota." "My dear mother, I miss you so much!" "She never forgot of my shoes." "Now I have new shoes for each day of the year." "I can peacefully use them in the horrible streets of Brazil." "Victory, princess!" "The courts of Cadiz recognize your right to the crown." "I do not believe it!" "Bitch!" "Good winds brought this Spanish ship to Brazil!" "Now I have my shoes and my crown." "Fuck them!" "I am the queen of the Plata!" "John, we did it!" "The courts have recognized me." "As the legitimate heir to the throne of the Plata!" "This is no longer interesting to Portugal, after so many years." "Son of a bitch!" "You are not serious." "We have no money to expand there." "Besides, I have been thinking and I do not want you to move to Buenos Aires with my kids!" "Your kids?" "Very well, John!" "You have four kids, I will go with the other five!" "So tell the courts of Cadiz, friends of Portugal." "That you want to break up with me, breaking our agreement." "Let us see if we can keep your regency in Plata without Portugal." "Shit!" "That ended her dream of being Queen of La Plata." "What are you saying?" "The prince ordered me to leave today for Canarias." "Son of a bitch!" "John knows well how to hit me." "What a coward, what a traitor." "That filthy John!" "We need to do something." "Help me, Presas." "I worked all these years without receiving." "I do not have much to return to Spain." " It would be nice of the princess to give me some money." " What do you mean?" "John never gave you anything." "What a rat!" "I cannot give you much too, Presas." "You know better than anyone that the money I get is ridiculous." "Every princess gets at least twice!" "Yes, Presas, twice." "Come on, nigger." "I cannot even afford my expenses, Presas." "I own the dressmaker three dresses." "I own the jeweler the bright sword of Sydney Smith." "Even the butcher!" "Don John was notoriously tightfisted." "And more famous were Carlota's debts around Rio de Janeiro." "When the time came for Presas to leave for Spain." "Carlota had nothing to give him, but a letter." "Instructing her family to welcome and pay him." "However, that was of no use." "Presas never got his reward." "And later, in revenge, he wrote a book called:" ""The Secret Memoirs of Carlota Joaquina."" "Disclosing sordid details of her private life." "Then, all of a sudden." "She met Fernando Carneiro Leão." "Her last and greatest love." "You see, Yolanda, she was beginning to realize how interesting racial mixture could be." "You see, Fernando, I never liked black people, I do not know why, I was afraid." "I could stand one or two." "However, lots together, never!" "So now, you would live with me at the slave quarters?" " Yes, sure." " Would you have children with me?" "Children?" "I already have so many and so different." "You are only lacking black children." "It is true." "And, fool John would not even notice." "Fernando, my love." "I new they had power!" "Need something, woman?" "I am sorry, but the flowers are so beautiful." "I do not know if your Highness knows it, but." "Getting red roses in Brazil means eternal love and immortal desire." "Oh, and if someday you get a small fruit called "cajá"." "It means come immediately." "How interesting." "You recommended by Presas, a good friend." "I believe we will get along very well." "Do you understand?" "What I say?" "Of course, princess!" "I understand everything!" "Do not worry!" "Thank God!" "It has been long since I need to know." "The customs of this city." "So, let us go." "It is too hot." "I will take a sea bath." "Your Highness will take a sea bath." "People were astonished at Carlota, because nobody had ever." "Used the ocean to take a bath, only the Indians did that." "That is it, Viscounts of Pig Killing." "My son did nothing, I swear." "She is there, in that cell, along with the worst of the thieves." "Well, I will try, but I cannot guarantee anything." "Right?" "I will give everything I have to see my son out of the prison." "Well, you know, I will go to Paso today." "I will speak personally with the Queen, you know." "I have already solved more difficult problems than this." "Thank you very much!" "So." "That means I can wait for news from you, Viscounts of Pig Killing?" "Yes, you can." "Stay calm, stay calm." "Selling royal favors again!" "What do you want me to do, dad?" "What do you want me to do?" "How will I make money?" "I work for a queen that has nowhere to drop dead." "Not even the Spanish she pay." "She will not pay me." "Now, my dad, I am a viscount." "I can no longer wash." "Cook to make money." "I ran from Portugal so I would have a king." "Now this fat comes." "Came floating to here." "Listen, daddy." "Listen very well what I am going to say!" "You had better buy a very beautiful jewelry." "So that when you are in the dungeons I will want to take you out of there!" "You keep saying these things, if someone hears, you will arrest." "All the colony and me!" "And that was the way the new nobles of Brazil made a living." "By selling royal favors." "Dona Maria, the old queen, was getting worst and worst." "She had spent her time in Brazil completely isolated." "Except for some promenades along the Bay of Guanabara." "Always surrounded by the Indians." "The moment was drawing close." "When Don John would be king." "Come on, leave." "Please, leave." "Come on." "Take her to the convent." "Tomorrow I will see." "Come, sir." "Let us go." "The queen is dead indeed." "Fernando." "How are you Mr. Carneiro Leão?" "I will see you at the hall above." "Fernando, Fernando!" "I miss you so much!" "I need you so much!" "Do you want me to do something Highness?" "Did you forget about my kisses?" "About what my mouth does on your body." "I will never forget your kisses." "Then kiss me." "My dear Fernando, because of your dedication to our house." "And because of your notorious talent for management." "I decided to nominate you president of the Bank of Brazil." "Majesty, it is a great honor!" "I do not believe I deserve it!" "Yes, you deserve it." "I believe it will benefit us all." "The weather at this time of the year is very good." "Very good." "Maria Teresa, my daughter I shall stop a moment to poop." "Of course, my dad, take your time." "Antonio!" " Antonio!" " Yes?" "I need to stop to poop." "The king will poop!" "Indeed, the flag is beautiful." "My dad, I think you need a new cloth." " For your coronation." " But why new cloth." "If I barely used this one I brought from Portugal." "Besides, with this searing heat." " Please." " Maria Teresa." "You would look so handsome." "You prepared everything in addition, forgot of you." "Imagine the mantle you will order." "A new uniform." "After all, it will be your coronation." "Fine, Maria Teresa, fine." "I will order this cloth, or you and Lobato will not leave me in peace." "Antonio, I am done!" "Bring lunch!" "Immigrants arrive nonstop during this historical moment in Brazil." "Even a French cultural mission was hired to document the coronation of John." "In addition, where are the actors?" "I do not know about the actresses, but it said that lots of French prostitutes." "Just arrived in a ship from France." "Where is Napoleon's route, dear brother?" "We may taste French prostitutes in Paris." " You are crazy to go back to Europe." " Sure!" "Are not you?" "You know I like it here." "Besides, the French from here are better than the ones from there." "You that the Tropics only do well to women." "Miguel." "It so being hot they get rid of their clothes easily." "Enough, Pedro, enough." "Let us go straight to our French mission." "Before Leopoldina of Hapsburg arrives." "Someday you will have to marry like this too, Miguel!" " Do not forget it!" " Calm, Pedro." "Do not be mad at me." "You know I do not want to think about this!" "Let me live, Miguel!" "Pedro was epileptic, but he was just like his mother." "He loved sex." "His appetite was famous all over town." "All kinds of women pleased his taste." "The French, the Polish, egresses the Indians." "One of his most famous love affairs." "Were with." "Noemi, a French singer, his first great passion." "Do not get me wrong, but Pedro shall marry archduchess Leopoldina." "However, we will not leave you helpless." "You will leave for Pernambuco today." "Where you will marry the most handsome of my officers." "A diamond necklace for the baby's crib." "And 12 thousand cantos de reins." "Lobato, let us get this over with this!" "Mademoiselle, please, there is nothing the king can do!" "Leopoldina Don John package from Austria for Pedro." "She was intelligent and noble, however, nothing likes his taste." " Highness?" " Where is Noemi?" "She left today to Pernambuco." "King orders, sir." "Highness!" "Calm down, do not be nervous!" "Help me, please!" "Don John became king." "And his domestic problems apparently solved." "As Pedro got married to Leopoldina." "Carlota left without her lover." "However, how ugly I look!" "I do not like the colors." "Now let us see the one at the plaza." "However, there was not that many people, I am sure." "Carlota, my God!" "You always see flaws in everything!" "Who is this pretty woman behind our mother, Miguel?" "Pedro, it impossible to see even our mother." "The problem is that Debret is not Velasquez, Miguel?" "He cannot understand Portuguese." "Majesty!" "A gift, majesty!" "Oh, a gift!" "So open it, Lombardo!" " Yes, and there is a letter here." " Oh, a letter!" "So read it, Lombardo!" "Here it is the fruit of love that your Highness killed." "Noemi." "My God!" "It is a dead baby!" "You know, Yolanda, the most terrible thing is that Don Pedro kept the embalmed baby." "In his office for years." "So, Pedro." "Will the constitution be signed or not?" "Is the king playing a fool?" "Taking us as fools." "Calm down." "My dad will sign the constitution." " Yeah, but when?" "When?" "When?" " Soon, sir!" " I am tired of waiting." " Down with Bragança!" " Viva o Brazil!" " Viva!" "Viva!" "To honor what I say." "To honor what I say, I will bring my dad now." "King of Portugal, Brazil and Algarva, to sign the constitution." " Viva o Brazil!" " Viva!" "Viva!" "Viva!" "Look, you are sleeping already, are not you?" "Come on, let us go in it, it is time to go." " No, no, I was listening." " Sure." "You were." "I bet." " What is that constitution stuff?" " So maybe you were listening, all right." "The Monarchy was over, Yolanda, so they had to sign this piece of paper." "Which gave men their supposed rights?" "That is what constitution is supposed to mean." "For his help in that movement for the constitution." "Brazilian people began to love and respect Don Pedro." "He really became a hero." "When a year later he declared the independence." "Bastard." " Lady!" "Lady!" " Did you find him?" " I did not find him, no." " Shit!" "Shit!" "Without Fernando, she suffers a lot." "But what was worst, Yolanda What happened to her face?" "Hairs?" "You mean her looked in the mirror." "And her face was full of hairs." "Poor Carlota!" "I would scream until I was dead." "Well, of course it was not like that from the beginning, was it, Yolanda?" "You know how any little hair on a woman's face can be a problem." "Well, maybe you do not." "Yet." " Come on, shut up!" " Would you look?" "What happened then was, after Carlota went completely crazy." "I am sorry to tell, but in hot humid countries." "These hormonal disturbances are common." "We could try a series of emetics, but I do not know." "Emetics?" "What do you mean?" "That I will have hair on my face for the rest of my life." "God!" "Then to solve her problems." "Carlota really got into the Brazilian culture." "It seemed the Macumba had worked." "Fernando appeared somehow." "Thank you!" "Thank you, lord!" "Do I look better like this?" "No, Felisbindo, I want him to wait." "Highness called me." ""Highness"?" "This how you known me?" "Before I was your Carlota, you are Lola." "Before your Majesty was not queen." " I am the same, Fernando!" " That is not true." "Yes, it is I. That loves you so much." "Your Majesty is the king's wife, my lord." "To whom I bound by oath, occupying a position of trust!" "I own him respect!" "Bastard!" "What about me?" "Do not you own me nothing?" "Carlota, I was hoping you would save us from this." "Our current position require a different behavior." "You have obligations too!" "You do not love me anymore." "You do not love me anymore!" " I feel that." " I never said so." "Son of a bitch!" "You worry about the king, the people, the money." "How about our love?" "You only care for power, Fernando!" "Am I not right?" "Excuse me." "Fernando!" "I cannot live without you!" " I cannot." " Please, Carlota." "Let us finish this!" "Gertrude!" "How dare you invade the queen's chambers?" "I do not see a queen." "I see an evil and." "Unscrupulous woman that wants to steal my husband!" "Guards!" "Felisbindo, call the guards!" "Do you care that much, Fernando?" "Motherfucker!" "Get out of here!" "Go away before I have, you flogged." "Look at her, my dear." "Look and tell me." "What could have seduced you?" "She does not have beauty or youth." "Even less majesty." "Take a good look at her." "Compare us both." "Is this why I came?" "Mulatto!" "Slut!" "Wicked Carioca!" "Cow!" "You will pay me!" "I swear!" "I will have all you are." "Bones broken!" "I did not kill." "I swear." "Did you see who did it?" "Yes, sir." "Did you say you would kill me?" "If I came for Fernando." "I said and I will do so." "Your Majesty is proving herself to be a crowned gypsy." "Felisbindo, mercilessly whip this slut mutate!" "With the gun in my hand, I said to the queen:" ""Do you want to shoot me, lady?"" "I shall see your daughters in a whorehouse!" "And then, Mr. Intending, the queen quickly." "Took the gun from my hand and shot." "Yelled: "Get out of here, all of you!"" "We got out, and now I am here before you, Mr. Intending." "This is the story in the case files, Majesty." "I will leave them here for your consideration." "Excuse me." "As for the mentioned man." "Is still in prison for whatever may be your royal decision." "Excuse me." "Oh, my God!" "What a disgrace!" "Did you say you would kill me?" "If I came for Fernando?" "I brought food for your Majesty!" "I was able to." "Get out of here!" "Don John burned the papers which accused Carlota of the murder." "That was not all." "His position threatened in Europe." "Portugal was demanding the King's return." "Oh, dad, I would like you to let me stay." "Everybody likes me here." "I feel I have a lot to do." "My son." "You are Portuguese like me." "Portugal will welcome you." "Besides, I already feel old and tired." "With the Constitution signed." "I will need you for the bad times ahead." "It will not be worst than in Brazil, my dad." "If I stay in Brazil, Highness will always be sure to own these lands." "You are right my son." "It is better that Brazil stays in your hands." "Than with some adventurer that will give up the crown." "Make it independent." "It was sad for Don John to leave Brazil." "He would never see his beautiful palm trees grow in the." "Magnificent Botanical Gardens he founded and which were his passion." "Besides, Brazil was the place where he became a king." "A real one." "Because in Portugal he was considered as an infant." "Who, by chance, got the crown." "And his last words were, Yolanda?" "Beloved land, I shall still take much more." "And what happened to Carlota." "When Carlota got back to Portugal she was extremely happy." "Thank God!" "From this land I not even want the dust." "She was happy because she thought that in Europe." "Her problems would be magically solved." "But, Yolanda, she was terribly wrong." "When she arrived in Portugal." "She wanted to see her beloved son Miguel, wildly known as a bastard." "As the king, betraying Don John." "So she exiled for 9 long years to her old palace in ruins." "The Quinta do Ramalho." "Insane and miserable, and deserted by their children." "She finally killed herself." "Yes, it is true." "It is true." "I killed." "I killed the gardener." "I killed Gertrude." "But not John, not John." "I did not kill John!" "Forgive me, lord." "Forgive me." "Don John died in the middle of a chicken soup." "Some people say it poisoned." "Carlota plotted everything." " She did really." " Who knows, Yolanda?" "Who knows?" "The problem with history, as you sees, the more you read, the less you know." "Everyone has a different version for one given situation." "There is your answer: "who knows?" Come on!" "Come on!" "Out of the way!"