>>5689679https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duarte_Pio_de_Bragan%C3%A7a#Reconcilia%C3%A7%C3%A3o_com_a_Ma%C3%A7onaria_PortuguesaProbably, he is a freemason himself. Plus he has republican and freemason friends.
1)Estado Novo( most of the 2nd Republic period) solved the dynastic question by sponsoring his family branch, recognising his father
>When, in 1950 , the National Assembly repealed the Law of Banishment , which excluded the presence of the Miguelista branch of the country, Duarte Nuno settled in Portugal in 1953 , provided by the Foundation of the House of Bragança b)Estado Novo, despite of somethings was a secular regime still keeping the 1911's law of separation of Church and State and hated possible takeover of economic and political by the part of Opus Dei, contrary to what happened in Spain. Despite the prohibition of freemasonry and slumbering of various lodges, there were freemasons in the regime - one of them most important was the President of Republic that signed that decree. They kept the same symbols of the First Republic - the flag, anthem, type of regimen, progressivist laws according to irregular freemasonry obediences
2nd) His wife is a descendant of someone who planned the regicide of D. Carlos I.
3) They had a public meeting between him and the Grand Master of the time, something already combinated since long time in the backoffice.
>In 2004, Duarte Pio de Bragança traveled to the headquarters of the Grande Oriente Lusitano (GOL), of Portuguese Masonry , in what was the first visit of a descendant of the extinct Casa de Bragança to this Masonic institution. Grand Master António Arnaut publicly stated that: "There is no dispute between Freemasonry and the House of Braganza today," adding that the "reconciliation of Portuguese Masonry with the House of Braganza" occurred on the occasion of the same visit by Duarte Pius. 
