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Isabel HerdiaIsabel Herdia de Bragana (born November 22 1966 in Lisbon) is the wife of Duarte Pio, Duke of Bragana, current pretender to the Portuguese throne and Duchess of Bragana. Portugal is a Republic, but monarchy supporters grant her the style of SAR The Duchess of Bragana (SAR is equivalent to HRH). Isabel Herdia lived between Portugal and Angola until 1975, when her family moved to So Paulo, Brazil. She studied in the Jesuit Escola de So Lus until 1988. In 1990, she obtained a MBA from the Universidade Getlio Vargas and returned to Portugal to a job in BMF — Sociedade de Gesto de Patrimnios, S.A. She specialized as a fortune manager. In May 13 1995 she married the Duke of Bragana and quit her professional life to dedicate herself to the family. The couple had three children: Afonso de Santa Maria, Maria Francisca and Dinis. Since 1995, Isabel Herdia is a patron of several charity institutions, mainly concerned with the help and support of uncared children and awarness of diseases like Down syndrome. The Duchess of Bragana is Great Master of several Portuguese Chivalry Orders, such as the Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceio de Vila Viosa and Ordem Real de Santa Isabel.
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