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Imparando storia. Story lesson.

Imparando storia. Story lesson.

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Vitória Castelo Santos

Vitória Castelo Santos


Free Account, Lisboa

Imparando storia. Story lesson.

Lisboa. Parque das Nações.
12 March 2012

Catarina de Bragança, D. João IV daughter. She married the king Charles II in 1662. In the beginning of her tenure as queen consort, she was not popular with the English people, due to her Catholic religion and inability to speak the English language. Catherine introduced the custom of drinking tea in Britain, a custom that was already very popular among the Portuguese nobility at the time. The tea had been imported to Portugal from the Portuguese possessions in Asia as well as through the trade Portuguese merchants maintained with China and Japan.
According to the Museum Director of the house of Bragança, it was not only drinking tea but "High Tea" at 5:00 pm (some people believe it to be at 4:00 pm) which is still a Portuguese tradition.
Catherine also introduced the Fork to the dining tables of England.

Because it was alleged that the Queen and her family had profited from the slave trade, a recent effort to build a 10 m tall statue in her honour in Queens was defeated by local African American, Irish-American and community groups.

A quarter-scale model survives at the site of Expo '98, in Lisbon, Portugal, facing the river Tejo.

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