Government Of The Order
The H.S.H. Dom Filipe
Count of Rio Grande
The Government of the Order is entrusted to the H.S.H. Dom Filipe, Count of Rio Grande, etc., who was born in Lisbon on the 16th April 1967, the third male son of the H.H. Dom Alberto (1923-2003), 5th Duke and 6th Marquess of Loulé, 13th Count of Vale de Reis, Count of Rio Grande, etc., the Head of the Constitutional Dynastic Line of the Royal House of Portugal, as representative of the personal and dynastic rights that belonged to his August Mother, H.H. Dona Constança (1889-1967), Duchess of Loulé and Countess of Vale de Reis (through her great grand mother – Her Royal Highness the Infanta Dona Ana de Jesus Maria de Bragança e Borbón (1806-1857),daughter of King Dom João VI and the Queen Dona Carlota Joaquina de Borbón, Infanta of Spain), after the death without children of the last King of Portugal, His Most Faithful Majesty, Dom Manuel II, which took place on the 2nd July 1932.