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Maria Leopoldina was Brazil's first Empress consort. She was originally an Archduchess of Austria. She was born in Vienna, Austria in 1797. She was the spouse of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil. She died in 1826.
It was thanks to Empress Maria Leopoldina that the basic color scheme of the Brazilian flag, green and yellow, was chosen to illustrate the marriage of the Houses of Braganza and Hapsburg.
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