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| | Empire Adrift: The Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro by Patrick Wilcken |
 | | And Dona Carlota, his scheming wife, a child bride who tried to bite her husband's ear off on their wedding night and contrived, for the rest of her life, to spend as little time as possible in his company. |
 | | As for Dona Carlota Joaquina, Dom João’s Spanish wife, she kept a separate household and conducted a “conjugal guerrilla war” with the King. |
 | | Played unforgettably by Marieta Severo in Carla Camurati’s film Carlota Joaquina (1994), the Brazilian equivalent of The Madness of King George, Dona Carlota was short, lame, angular, frizzy haired, hot-tempered and uninhibited, an “irrepressible personality and a prima donna who needed to be the centre of attention and dressed in an eccentric, flamboyant style. |
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