May 25, 2013

Independence Day / National Day in Jordan  {1946}

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Emir of Fujairah   {1948}

Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau   {1966} [wife of Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands (brother of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands)]

Prince George of Yugoslavia   {1984} (son of the late Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia & Princess Margarita of Baden)

Samuel van Vollenhoven   {2004} [son of Prince Bernhard of Orange-Nassau (1st cousin of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands)]

Tane Mahuta Lewis   {2012} [son of Lady Davina Lewis (daughter of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester {1st cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland})]

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Lucien (Luciano) Bonaparte, Prince Francais (1815), 1st Prince of Canino, Count of Apollino + Lord of Nemori (1814-1840), 1st Prince of Musignano (1824-1840) & Alexandrine de Bleschamp, Madame Jouberthon   {1803} [RELIGIOUS] 

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Princess Imperial of Austria, Princess Royal of Bohemia, Hungary + Tuscany & Prince Elias (Elia) of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma + Piacenza (1950-1959)   {1903}

King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan (1952-1999) & Antoinette “Toni” Gardiner (Princess Muna Al-Hussein of Jordan)   {1961} [divorced Dec.21, 1971]

Princess Birgitta of Sweden & Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern   {1961} [CIVIL]

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Prince Aloys II of Liechtenstein (1836-1858)   {1796}

The Princess Helena "Helenchen/Lenchen" of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg   {1846}

DEATH

1983   King Idris I of Libya (1951-1969)   

May 24, 2013

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Hereditary Prince Stephan of Lippe   {1959}

Princess Victoria of Bourbon-Two Sicilies   {1976}

Prince Georg Philipp of Saxe-Gessaphe   {1988}

Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein, Count of Rietberg   {1995} [son of Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein (son of Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein)]

Prince Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta, Duke of Abruzzi   {2011} [son of Prince Aimone of Savoy-Aosta, Duke of Apulia, Duke of Aosta (son of Prince Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta, Duke of Aosta, Duke of Savoy)]

ROYAL + ARISTOCRATIC WEDDINGS

Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark [King Frederik IX of Denmark (1947-1972)] & Princess Ingrid of Sweden   {1935}

Count Flemming of Rosenborg & Alice Ruth Nielsen   {1949} 

Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia & Countess Donata of Castell-Rudenhausen   {1975}

Princess Martha Louise of Norway & Ari Behn   {2002}

Prince Joachim of Denmark & Marie Cavallier   {2008}

Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan & Sara Qabbani   {2010}  [NIKAH]

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

King Carlo Emanuele IV of Sardinia (1796-1802)   {1751}

Queen Alexandrina Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland (1837-1901), Empress of India (1876-1901)   {1819}

Princess Elisabeta/Elisabeth of Greece + Denmark, Countess of Toerring-Jettenbach   {1904}