Carlota Joaquina - Princesa Do Brasil -1995- <GENUINE - OVERVIEW>

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.

She is Carlota Joaquina. Princesa do Brasil. And she is still plotting. Carlota Joaquina - Princesa do Brasil -1995-

And yet, on a humid Tuesday night, a soap opera airs on TV Globo. The character is not named Carlota, but everyone knows. She wears the same severe blazer. She looks at the camera and says: “You think democracy is new? I conspired in ballrooms when your great-grandparents were slaves.” She wanted to rule Brazil alone