Dom Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (born 15 May 1945), is the pretender to the former Portuguese throne, as the head of the
House of Braganza. The
Miguelist Braganzas, to whom Duarte Pio belongs as great-grandson of
King Miguel I, is a cadet branch of the House of Braganza. With the extinction of male-line dynasts descended from
Queen Maria II in 1932, King Miguel's descendants became the only male-line Braganzas left and the closest male-line heirs to the Portuguese throne (the Brazilian branch having gone extinct in 1921).