Born in the Palace of São Cristóvão, in Rio de Janeiro, Pedro (future Pedro II), the seventh child of Pedro and Leopoldine
Due to the abdication and departure for Europe of his father and the death of his older brothers, he became Emperor of Brazil aged just 5. He married Teresa Cristina de Bourbon and Two Sicilies. A man of learning and defender of social causes, he was the second and last Brazilian monarch. He enjoyed a prosperous 58 year long reign with a great deal of popularity. With the proclamation of the Republic, he went into exile in Paris where he lived through to his death in 1891, aged 66.
The news reached Lisbon in 1826, through reports received via London and published in no. 44 of the Lisbon Gazette, 21 February 1826, Wednesday edition:
LISBON, 20 February.
According to the news sheets out of London that we received through to the 4th of this current month, (and the news received from a Vessel recently arrived from Bahia), telling us that on 2nd December of the birth to the HRH the Empress of Brazil of a Prince, with happy success.
Newspaper Archive of Lisbon