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of Lisbon at the time. The soldier and the landlady were arrested but Valada, as a member of the aristocracy, managed to escape arrest. Even though homosexuality was not illegal in
Portugal at the time, Valada quickly resigned from his post of deputy civil governor. It soon after emerged that Valada
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He was the only son, and only child of the second marriage of D. Francisco Xavier de
Meneses da Silveira e Castro, 1st Count of Caparica and 1st Marquis of Valada (1754–1834) to D. Francisca de Almeida Portugal (1792–1873), the daughter of the 3rd Marquis of Lavradio. From his father's first
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Eccentricities of the Marquis of Valada: Politics, Culture and Homosexuality in Fin-de-Siècle Portugal".
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