Unlike many other Portuguese orders, it has not been nationalized as a decoration of the state by the post-1910 Portuguese Republic, and as a result the Duke of Braganza remains the Grand Master of the order and Judge "of the associated" Royal Brotherhood.
It has not been nationalized as a decoration of the state by the post-1910 Portuguese Republic. This was unlike many other Portuguese orders. The Duke of Braganza remains the Grand Master of the order and Judge "of the associated" Royal Brotherhood. This is as a result. This is unlike many other Portuguese orders.