Nonetheless, these techniques were useless, for Paula died on 16 January 1833, one month shy of her tenth birthday. Upon learning of his daughter's impending death, the Duke of Braganza, who was in Porto, made two requests to Bonifácio: "the first is to keep for me a bit of her beautiful hair; the second is to place her in the convent of Our Lady of Good Aid and in the same spot where her good mother, my Leopoldina for whom even today I still shed tears of longing, is located ... I ask you as a father, as a pitiful desolate father, to do me a favor and go in person to deposit next to the body of her mother this fruit of her womb and on this occasion pray for one and other." Paula was given a grand state funeral which was not seen again until the death of Pedro II's son, Prince Imperial Afonso, in 1847. Her current burial place is in Rio de Janeiro's Convent of Saint Anthony, next to her brother João Carlos and later her nephews Afonso and Pedro. Her death made her siblings feel even more abandoned. In 1834, the Duke of Braganza also died.