[3] The wedding was celebrated in a private ceremony in the chapel of the Royal Ajuda Palace and was a scandal at the time.

The reasons for the marriage were probably not political, considering the couple's first child was born on 27 December 1827, twenty-two days after the ceremony.

The marriage proposal had been refused by D. Ana's father, King John VI, prior to his death in March 1826 (strictly, Portuguese law at the time only stated that the marriage of the heir presumptive required the sovereign's consent, a position D. Ana never held).

The designated regent of the kingdom was D. Ana's elder sister, Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza, who was present in Lisbon.

The couple has five children: [4] Nuno da Câmara Pereira, a member of the People's Monarchist Party (PPM) in the Assembly of the Republic, descends illegitimately from D. Ana.