At this point, the Mexicans should named their Emperor as “Emilliano the Unfortunate” because despite he was a good monarch with high popular supports, fate just love to screw with his personal life and he was so far unable to bear an heir to the throne.Meanwhile the battle in the Chamber of Deputies was intensifying with the whole "who should the Emperor marry" devolving into battle of petty politics with the Conservatives blaming the Reformists with the rise of Japan and the Soviet Union while the Reformists blamed the Conservatives for not backing the Mexican intervention in the Brazilian Civil War and letting them fall into the Argentine sphere of influence.
The battle gotten to the point that the Reformists were now bringing up the "Church question" and began threatening the power of the Church and by now many were absolutely fearing a Second Reform War, until the Emperor finally got involved and in a rousing speech he condemned both parties of seeking power in a time when Mexico was fighting a war in three fronts and he chastised them for their petty squabbling by saying "Have either of you learned what happened when the country was divided and was at war, we lost the war against the Americans and half of our territory. My grandfather, the Grand Maximiliano, brought this country together and made it into a power and now you people want to tear it apart because of your self-serving politics. For once in your greedy lives put aside your differences and help Mexico win the war." After that he made His decision on who he should marry and he chosed Frederica.
The Deputies after his speech and his marrying announcement decided to do what he said and the leaders of both parties, Lazaro Cárdenas and Juan Andreu Almanza meet on the 20 of March and the two formed the new Unión Sagrada or Sacred Union to put aside their differences and both parties would vote unanimously on anything that has to do about the war.
View attachment 477668 Juan Andreu Almanza, leader of the Conservative Party
For the marriage the Emperor and Chamber agreed to Wilhelm's marriage proposal and broke the agreement with Romania citing Ileana's supposed illegitimacy and this insulted Micheal so much he was considering joining the Axis but decided against it. On March 29, in the Catholic Cathedral of St Hedwig in Berlin the two married and during there, Emiliano greeted his new grandfather Kaiser Wilhelm and awarded him the Imperial Order of Our Lady of Guadalupe and to the Regent the Imperial Order of the Mexican Eagle.
View attachment 477671 St. Hedwig Cathedral
During the marriage he meet again with his sister, the two haven't seen each other since 1919, while Mexico and Poland had a warm relation the two monarchs were distance, but now the two got together and toured Warsaw which managed to defeat the Soviets in what became known as the Miracle of the Vistula, (more on that tomorrow) and at Warsaw Emiliano praised the Poles on their bravery and promised Mexican relief.
Hopefully his third marriage with the Hohenzollern this time would change that.
About the Brazilian Braganzas, are there any chances for them to reunify with their Portuguese family?
I know Pedro II had barred the Portuguese branch from inheritance of Brazilian throne but things have to change now, with Manuel II and his wife unable to bear a child, the succession law would have to divert to either the line of the deposed King Miguel family or Emperor Pedro II family. Pedro II family is much closer to King Manuel as Manuel great great grandmother Queen Maria II is Pedro II sister.
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