Do you not realize that Smartt is a member of Brazilian Royalty! He is a member of the House of Braganca and as such is a direct descendant of Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil! Do you think that a person of my blood line does not recognize Royalty? May my Doberman piss on your balls. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smoking3.gif" alt="" />



The house of BRAGANCA was the ruling dynasty of PORTUGAL from 1640 to 1910 and of BRAZIL from 1822 to 1889. In 1442, King JOHN I of Portugal made his illegitimate son, Afonso, duke of Braganca. Afonso's descendants became the wealthiest noble landowners in Portugal, with some 50,000 peasants. In the national revolution against Spanish rule of December 1640, Joao, duke of Braganca, was crowned King JOHN IV. The dynasty ruled Portugal until the overthrow of MANUEL II and the establishment of a republic in 1910. When Brazil asserted its independence of Portugal in 1822, it became an empire under PEDRO I, son of the Portuguese king JOHN VI. Pedro's successor, PEDRO II, was overthrown in a republican revolution in 1889