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Mrs. Lewis G. Morris, Anita Stewart Morris (1886-1977)

Anita Stewart Morris (1886-1977) was the daughter of the prominent
New York banker and philanthropist, William Rhinelander Stewart,
Sr. (1852–1929), see Val. Nos. 157-158. In 1909, she married Prince
Miguel, Duke of Viseu (1878–1923) of Portugal at Dingwall Castle in
Scotland. A week after the wedding, Franz Joseph I, the Emperor of
Austria, bestowed the title of Prinzessin von Braganza (Princess of
Braganza), on her and in her own right. In order to marry her, Prince
Miguel was required to renounce all claim to the throne of Portugal
in favor of his younger brother. Following the death of her husband,
she returned to New York City, formally renounced her royal title, and
opened a photography studio.

In 1946, she married Lewis Gouverneur Morris (1882-1967) of New
York, who was a financier until 1917, a Trustee of the Museum of the
City of New York, and the great-great nephew of Gouverneur Morris
(1752- 1816), a Founding Father of the United States of America. The
Morriss’s divided their time between New York and Rhode Island,
where they engaged in social and charitable activities. Mrs. Morris
donated six Qing dynasty porcelains in blue and white and famille-
verte to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1968. Anita Stewart
Morris was furthermore a descendant, in legitimate lineage of King
James I of Scotland by his wife Joan Beaufort, through their daughter
Annabella Gordon, Countess of Huntly. Anita died at the age of 91,
on September 15, 1977 (68 years to the day of her first marriage), at
her home in Newport, Rhode Island.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_de_Braganza
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/belle-epoque-
splendor-the-discerning-eye-of-acollector/
portrait-of-miss-anita-stewart
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182314797/anita-rhinelander-
morris
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lewis_Gouverneur_
Morris&action=edit§ion=3
http://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2019/03/anita-
rhinelander-stewart-american.html
https://nyti.ms/3QgXlmu
https://nyti.ms/3rSncXt
https://nyti.ms/3Yc2E8r
see p. 100 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3258439

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