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Young Manuel was born in the last year of the reign of his grandfather, King Luis I. He was created Duke of Beja. He was the son of Carlos I and Amélie of Orleans. On 1 February 1908 the royal family returned from the palace of Vila Viçosa to Lisbon. They travelled by coach to Almada and from then took a boat to cross the Tagus River and disembarked in Cais do Sodré in central Lisbon. On their way to the royal palace, the carriage with King Carlos I and his family passed through Terreiro do Paço. While crossing the square, shots were fired from the crowd by at least three men: Alfredo Costa, Manuel Buiça and Aquilino Ribeiro. The King died immediately; his heir Crown Prince Luís Filipe was mortally wounded; Prince Manuel hit in the arm and Queen Amélie surprisingly unharmed. It was the quick thinking of Queen Amélie that saved her son Manuel. [1] The assassins were shot at the spot by members of the bodyguard and later recognized as members of the Portuguese Republican Party. About twenty minutes later, Prince Luis Filipe died and days later, Manuel was acclaimed King of Portugal. The young King, who had not been groomed for kingship, sought to save the fragile position of the Braganza monarchy by dismissing the dictator João Franco and his entire cabinet in 1908. The ambitions of the various political parties made Manuel's reign a turbulent one. Free elections were declared in which republicans and socialists won an overwhelming victory. [2] The murder of a prominent republican precipated the revolution that had been so long in preparation. [3] Revolution erupted on October 4, 1910. An illegal military coup was commenced by soldiers who were joined by some civilians and municipal guards attacking loyal garrisons and the royal palace, while the guns of a warship added to the revolutionary colonnade. Three days of almost constant street fighting were enough to drive out the young King. [4] Manuel fled on the royal yacht to British ruled Gibraltar. [5] Portuguese Royalty House of Braganza-Wettin Pedro V Luís I Children Carlos, Prince Royal and Duke of Braganza (future Carlos I) Infante Afonso, Duke of Porto Carlos I Children Luís Filipe, Prince Royal and Duke of Braganza Infante Manuel, Duke of Beja (future Manuel II) Manuel II King Manuel II lived in exile in the United Kingdom. While King he had been made a Knight of the Garter by his distant cousin King Edward VII. His great-grandfather King Ferdinand I had been a first cousin of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. O FromThe Wikipedia

See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163490798/ for a fuller view of the scene (at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle). It was on June 10, 1911, when the Prince of Wales (future Edward VIII) was invested with the Order of the Garter.

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Thanks vasco.r, swang and antosousa: We will update the information and reload the description.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called What's that picture?, home of Flickr's unidentified vintage photographs, and we'd love to have this and other other mysteries that you may have added to the group!

believe it or not but my family lived in this house in 1953

My step father owned the ranch which the Urch Halfway house sat on. His name was Karl Roelofs of Lethbridge. As the house went into a sad but decaying state, I remember that my dad's cattle would walk right into it to escape the wind and snow. My step-dad is now gone, but now I look back and wish he would have preserved the half-way house. As a girl in the mid-seventies, I remember the original wallpaper hanging from the walls in shreds, pink with little rosebuds, and my little brother and I could still go upstairs, carefully, as the stairs were then starting to give out. I still recall the sounds of the wind whistling through the open windows where the glass panes had once been. Now living on the west coast, I often wonder if there is anything left of the halfway house still standing. Time to take journey back one of these days. Thanks for posting this.

my dad worked for Katl Roelofs in 1953 karl owned the ranch by the old man river and #3 highway at that time dad use to go back and forth by horse from the house to the ranch i was only 10 years old then but i loved it there -as far as i knoe there is nothing left -----i remember the natives coming by to get wood i live in ontario now my dads name was addo swarts- mom name henny swarts---my name is lucs swarts thank you very much

i would love to know more about this place ty

This is patently not produced between 1914-1918. Look at the label - by appointment to the late King George V - he died in 1936 so this tin clearly dates post that event..