Luís Pinto de Soveral, 1st Marquis of Soveral

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Luis Maria Augusto Pinto de Soveral, Marquês de Soveral GCMG GCVO (28 May 1851 – 5 October 1922) was a Portuguese diplomat. Kaiser Wilhelm II nicknamed him "the Blue Monkey".^[1]

He was born at São João da Pesqueira, son of Eduardo Pinto de Soveral, 1st Viscount of São Luís, and his wife Maria da Piedade Paes de Sande e Castro.^[2]

Joining the diplomatic service, he was an attaché and Secretary of Legation at Vienna, Berlin, and Madrid.^[3] He was First Secretary at the London Embassy in 1885 and advanced to the rank of Minister in 1891. He was a Counsellor of State, and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1895 to 1897.^[4]

In 1897 he was made an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the British Order of St Michael and St George,^[5] and later that year was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St James's.^[4] Soveral was a friend of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and a prominent member of the "Marlborough House set",^[1] the group of aristocratic and other friends of Edward when Prince of Wales who were regarded as leading fashionable society, at a time when the royal court of Queen Victoria was sober and domestic in tone. He was Ambassador Extraordinary for Edward VII's coronation^[4] and was made an Honorary Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1902.^[6] He was Ambassador Extraordinary to the Second Hague Conference in 1907.^[4] His tenure as Portuguese Minister in London ended in 1910,^[4] when the Revolution of 5 October overthrew the Portuguese monarchy.

Soveral was created a Marquis by King Carlos I of Portugal in 1900, and was a Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword. He died at Paris. On his death, his title became extinct.^[2] He is buried in the Pere Lachaise cemetery (Division 20),^[7] in Paris.

He was the subject of a biography by Paulo Lowndes Marques, entitled O Marquês de Soveral, Seu Tempo e Seu Modo (The Marquis of Soveral: his time and his manner).^[8]