. . "However, under Portuguese law, Paula was a foreigner having been born after the independence and was thus excluded from the line of succession.[6] However, her elder sister Maria da Gl??ria was not excluded from the succession having been born in 1819; she ascended the Portuguese throne after the death of Jo??o VI and the abdication of Pedro on 28 May 1826.[7] Instead of her mother, Paula was suck" . .