The Bostonian Singer Who Married a Portuguese King and Had Her Inheritance Taken From Her

Lisbon owes much of its tourism today to her

Pena Palace in Sintra, Portugal. Photo courtesy of Katia de Juan on Unsplash.

It reads like a typical chapter of Portuguese history — by which I mean it reads like a melodramatic soap opera replete with intrigue, betrayal, the good guys being duped, and the bad guys walking off with all the loot.