The monarch who was crowned after death, Ines De Castro is based on a true tale from medieval Portugal. Around 1340, Prince Pedro I fell in love with his wife's lady-in-waiting, Inês de Castro, whose father was a Spanish nobleman. Pedro's father, the Portuguese King Afonso IV, did not approve, and exiled Inês. But after Pedro's wife died, Inês returned to Portugal and lived with Pedro, and they had four children.  Afonso and his advisers were not happy, and in 1355 Afonso decided Inês's presence was too much of a political risk to the royal Portuguese line, and had her killed. She was buried in the city of Coimbra, while Pedro swore revenge, and led an uprising against his own father, kicking off a civil war within Portugal. Pedro also vowed to make Inês queen of Portugal, even in death. Grand tombs were crafted for them both, at the monastery of Alcobaça – and in 1360, several years after her death, Pedro dug up Inês's decomposing body and grandly took it in a procession from Coimbra to Alcobaça, where it was royally entombed, so that he would eventually be able to rest opposite her in death, always.  #history #portugal #portugese #medievalhistory #england #brazil #riodejanerio #lisbon