What is Rafael, Prince of Grão-Pará?
{{Infobox royalty | name = Rafael of Orléans-Braganza | title = [[Prince of Orléans-Braganza]] | image = | caption = Prince Rafael at the Prince of Ligne's birthday, 2019. | full name = Rafael Antonio Maria José Francisco Miguel Gabriel Gonzaga de Orléans e Bragança e Ligne | house = [[House of Orléans-Braganza#Vassouras line|Orléans-Braganza]] | father = [[Antônio, Prince of House Imperial of Brazil]] | mother = [[Christine, Princess of Ligne]] | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1986|4|26|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Petrópolis]], [[Brazil]] | religion = [[Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] | occupation = [[Production engineering]] }} '''Rafael of Orléans-Braganza''' (born 24 April 1986, [[Petrópolis]], [[Brazil]]) is a member of the [[Orléans-Braganza imperial family|Imperial House of Brazil]]. He is Prince of Brazil according to monarchists disputed claims of the [[Brazilian imperial family|Imperial House of Brazil]] 'of Vassouras branch. He is the second in the line line of succession to the extinct Brazilian throne as heir to his uncle [[Bertrand of Orléans-Braganza]] following the death of his father [[Antônio, Prince Imperial of Brazil|Antônio, Prince Orléans-Braganza]] in 2024. He was born in Petrópolis. He is the son of a widely considered [but yet disputed] non-[[morganatic marriage]] between the then Prince Antônio of Orleans-Braganza the Belgian [[Princess Christine of Ligne]].<ref =name>https://web.archive.org/web/20140714150724/http://www.ibem.org/arquivos/outros/artigo_3.pdf</ref>{{#tag:ref|The Brazilian dynasty's marital standard was never bound by the ''[[royal intermarriage]]'' rules which restricted sovereign German dynasties to reigning and mediatized families following the 1815 [[Congress of Vienna]]. Nonetheless it is true that the Princes de Ligne had sold the [[Imperial State|immediate principality]] of [[Edelstetten Abbey|Edelstetten]] in 1804, therefore they were not [[Mediatized Houses#List of Houses not considered as part of the Mediatised H