A Portuguese legend about lovers found an unexpected continuation in our days.
After the death of his favorite, Ines de Castro, the Portuguese king Pedru was so inconsolable that he couldn’t accept the death of his beloved. He married her, dead, in a lawful wedding and crowned the corpse, ordering all his courtiers to swear loyalty to her. But there is a legend that Ines didn’t die at all: her feelings for the king were so strong that she overcame death itself and, with the help of a miraculous potion, gained eternal life.
This mysterious love story of Portuguese Romeos and Juliets found an unexpected continuation in our time. And of course, a housewife from St. Petersburg, Nadezhda Lebedeva, couldn’t stay out of it. It all began when, through social media, a childhood friend found Nadezhda—someone she hadn’t seen for forty years—and suggested they meet…