Aged 29. Throughout nine years of marriage, the couple had seven children of whom four went onto reach adulthood. She was mother to Maria II, Queen of Portugal and Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil.
News about firstly the health state of the Empress only came to public knowledge in Lisbon in February 1827 before secondly her death entered the public domain in March and April 1827.
News of her death and the funeral ceremonies that took place in Rio de Janeiro came in issue no. 83 of the Lisbon Gazette, 6 April 1827, Friday edition:
FOREIGN NEWS.
BRAZIL.
Rio de Janeiro, 16 December
With the brief but virtuous career of Her Majesty the Empress having drawn to a close, the orders were promptly given for her funeral which were exactly complied with as regards the salutes and gun fire from the Fortresses as well as the war vessels and the peels of bells and every other demonstration of pain and suffering that had never been so justly deployed.
Lisbon Municipal Newspaper Library