He is the son of the deceased Emmanuel III and is the current patriarch of the Dynasty of Pereira. Alphonse is the first child within the Royal Family to undertake a public education, and was not regarded as anything important to the royal family, mostly in part because his older brother was set as the next heir to the throne. Alphonse was saw unfit after the death of his brother, George II, and many wanted his younger sister- Princess Christina to take the crown- but after a judicial ruling, Alphonse was anointed King of the Portuguese Realm.