José de Bouza Serrano
José de Bouza Serrano is a Portuguese diplomat.
He earned a licentiate degree in Law from the University of Lisbon, and joined the diplomatic career in 1978. He served as the Portuguese Ambassador in Copenhagen from 2004 to 2008, as the Portuguese Ambassador in Vilnius in 2005, as the country's Chief of Protocol from 2008 to 2012, and as the Portuguese Ambassador in The Hague from 2012 to 2016.
In 2019, Bouza Serrano sold his 170-piece collection of 17th-to-19th-century Ming and Qing Chinese porcelain to the Orient Foundation; the collection is now on permanent exhibition at the Museum of the Orient, in Lisbon, under the name "The Former Bouza Serrano Collection – The Strength of Fragile Things".
An outspoken monarchist, in 2023 he was in charge of protocol at the wedding of Infanta Maria Francisca, Duchess of Coimbra in Mafra Basilica.
Published works
- O Livro do Protocolo
- As Famílias Reais dos Nossos Dias: o olhar de um diplomata português
- A Viúva de Windsor: histórias da História do longo reinado de Isabel II
- ''O Rei Sem-Abrigo: Don Juan Carlos I de Espanha''
Distinctions
National orders
- Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry
- Officer of the Order of Prince Henry
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit