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Luís Filipe was with his father and the rest of the royal family on February 1 1908, the day of the regicide. Carlos I was immediately killed by shots fired from a crowd by Republican fanatics, and Luis's younger brother Manuel was hit in an arm. Luís himself was severely wounded and, although attended by doctors, he died twenty minutes later. (The Guinness Book of Records lists him as holding the record for the shortest reign in history, twenty minutes. However, other reference works do not list Luis among the Kings of Portugal.)

After the deaths, Manuel became the last King of Portugal. A republic would be declared two years later, on October 5 1910.