She was the first Queen regnant of Portugal and the first monarch of Brazil. She showed promise as a leader but a decade into her reign mental illness, brought on by her family’s excessive inbreeding and an onslaught of personal tragedies caused the Queen to deteriorate into mental illness. She was known as Maria the Mad.

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Juana of Castile known as Juana la Loca or Joanna the Mad was haunted by mental health problems. She stabbed a romantic rival in the face and lived with her beloved husband’s corpse. Though it is likely that her husband, father and son exaggerated rumors of her instability to keep her under their control.

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