The Baviera1 (German Bayern and Latin Bavaria), the Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern), is one of the sixteen federal states (Länder) of Germany. Located in the southeast, Bavaria has an area of ​​70,553 km², the largest German state, and 12.5 million people, making it the second most populated region after North Rhine-Westphalia. Its capital and largest city is Munich (German: München), the third largest city in Germany.

Initially Duchy of Bavaria and then Kingdom of Bavaria, the territory was ruled by the House von Wittelsbach from 1323 to 1918, when it was proclaimed the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), due to the First World War (1914-1918). Currently, is as a state of the Federal Republic of Germany.

As the House von Wittelsbach - the sovereign of Bavaria from 1323 to 1918 - was declared enemy of Nazi Germany (1933-1945), the Princess Antoinette of Luxembourg, who was a princess consort of Bavaria, married to Rodolfo von Wittelsbach, Crown Prince of Bavaria, was intercepted by a Nazi militia and arrested in 1944 and was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Antoinette and her children were in the following year, sent to the Dachau concentration camp, being released in the same year. However, she would never recover from the trauma.

Maria Isabel von Wittelsbach, born Princess of Bavaria, married in 1937, at the Nymphenburg Palace with Dom Pedro Henrique de Orleans e Bragança, head of the Imperial House of Brazil from 1921 to 1981, and until his death, in law, the empress-mother of Brazil.