 As of 2018, the Duchess of Coimbra has been studying Social and Cultural Communication at the Catholic University of Portugal.On 4 July 2018, feast day of Saint Isabel of Portugal, Maria Francisca was invested as Duchess of Coimbra by her father, in a ceremony that took place in the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova, in Coimbra, therefore succeeding to the title of her deceased uncle, Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra.In the same ceremony, she was invested as a Dame of the Order of Saint Isabel, by her mother.