Luís Pinto de Soveral, 1st Marquis of Soveral

(...) He was born at São João da Pesqueira, son of Eduardo Pinto de Soveral, 1st Viscount of São Luís, and his wife Maria da Piedade Paes de Sande e Castro.

[2] Joining the diplomatic service, he was an attaché and Secretary of Legation at Vienna, Berlin, and Madrid.

[4] Soveral was a friend of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and a prominent member of the "Marlborough House set",[1] the group of aristocratic and other friends of Edward when Prince of Wales who were regarded as leading fashionable society, at a time when the royal court of Queen Victoria was sober and domestic in tone.

He was Ambassador Extraordinary for Edward VII's coronation[4] and was made an Honorary Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1902.

Soveral was created a Marquis by King Carlos I of Portugal in 1900, and was a Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword.