Carlota Joaquina of Spain

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Carlota Joaquina of Spain
Portrait of Dona Carlota Joaquina at the Palace of Ajuda
Queen consort of Portugal
Tenure	20 March 1816 – 10 March 1826
Queen consort of Brazil
Tenure	20 March 1816 – 12 October 1822
Born	(1775-04-25)25 April 1775 Palace of Aranjuez, Aranjuez, Spain
Died	7 January 1830(1830-01-07) (aged 54) Palace of Queluz, Sintra, Portugal
Burial	Pantheon of the Braganzas, Lisbon, Portugal
Spouse	John VI of Portugal ​ ​ (m. 1785; died 1826)​
Issue Detail	Maria Teresa, Infanta of Spain and Portugal António, Prince of Beira Maria Isabel, Queen of Spain Pedro I and IV, Emperor of Brazil and King of Portugal Maria Francisca, Infanta of Spain Isabel Maria, Infanta Regent of Portugal Miguel I, King of Portugal Infanta Maria da Assunção Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria, Marquise of Loulé
Names Carlota Joaquina Teresa Cayetana de Borbón y Borbón-Parma
House	Bourbon
Father	Charles IV of Spain
Mother	Maria Luisa of Parma
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Doña Carlota Joaquina Teresa Cayetana of Spain (25 April 1775 – 7 January 1830) was Queen of Portugal and Brazil as the wife of King Dom John VI. She was the daughter of King Don Charles IV of Spain and Maria Luisa of Parma.

Detested by the Portuguese court — where she was called "the Shrew of Queluz" (Portuguese: a Megera de Queluz) — Carlota Joaquina gradually won the antipathy of the people, who accused her of promiscuity and influencing her husband in favor of the interests of the Spanish crown. After the escape of the Portuguese court to Brazil, she began conspiring against her husband, claiming that he had no mental capacity to govern Portugal and its possessions, thus wanting to establish a regency. She also planned to usurp the Spanish crown that was in the hands of Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte. After the marriage in 1817 of her son Pedro with the Archduchess Leopoldina of Austria and the later return of the royal family to Portugal in 1821, Carlota Joaquina was confined in the Royal Palace of Queluz, where she died alone and abandoned by her children on 7 January, 1830.