Shortest Reigning Monarch - Portugal
Posted by: tmob
N 38° 42.453 W 009° 08.190
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Portugal (ex-aequo with France) has the Guiness World Record for the Shortest Reigning Monarch - 20 minutes
Waymark Code: WMAQ5A
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 02/10/2011
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"The unfortunate Crown Prince Luís Filipe of Portugal, who technically became King of Portugal for the brief period following the assassination of his father, Dom Carlos I, on 1 February 1908. Luís Filipe was himself fatally wounded in the attack, but he survived his father by 20 minutes."
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The location of this waymark, is the place where the assassinations took place, in Terreiro do Paço, in Lisbon, Portugal