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Sunday, March 31, 2013

March 31, 2013

Happy Easter!

















ROYAL WEDDINGS

King Jose I of Portugal + the Algarves (1750-1777) & Infanta Mariana Vitoria of Spain   {1732} [IN PERSON]

Archduchess Maria Beatrice (Beatrix) of Austria & Count Riprand of Arco-Zinneberg   {1980} [CIVIL]


ROYAL CORONATION

King Tupou VI of Tonga   {2012}



HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

King Frederik V of Denmark + Norway, King of the Wends + the Goths, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn + Dithmarschen, Count of Oldenburg + Delmenhorst   {1723}


The Prince Henry of Great Britain + Ireland, Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster, Baron Culloden   {1900}






Saturday, March 30, 2013

March 30, 2013

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Elisabeth Ferner Beckmann   {1969} [daughter of Princess Astrid of Norway (sister of King Harald V of Norway)]


ROYAL ENGAGEMENT

Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange, Prince of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg & Maxima Zorreguieta Cerruti   {2001}






























ROYAL WEDDINGS

Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria & Francesco V, Duke of Modena, Reggio + Mirandola (1846-1859), Duke of Guastalla (1847-1875), Duke of Massa + Prince of Carrara (1846-1859), Archduke of Austria-Este, Prince Royal of Hungary + Bohemia   {1842}

Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia & Eva Maria Andjelkovich   {1974}

Prince Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta, Duke of Aosta, Duke of Savoy & Silvia Paterno di Spedalotto dei marchesi di Regiovanni   {1987}

Prince Pedro of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Noto & Sofia Landaluce y Melgarejo {2001}

Sheikh Jasim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar & Sheikha Buthaina bint Ahmad bin ‘Ali Al-Thani of Qatar   {2006}


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Holy Roman Empress consort Marie Josephe (Maria Josepha), Queen consort of the Romans, Archduchess of Austria, Grand Duchess consort of Tuscany, Princess of Bavaria   {1739}



DEATHS

1796   Princess Augusta Wilhelmine (Marie Auguste Wilhelmine) of Hesse-Darmstadt,  Duchess of Zweibrucken (1795-1796) (wife of the future King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, 1806-1825)


1871   Queen consort Wilhelmina Frederika Alexandrine Anna Louisa/Luise/Louise of Sweden + Norway, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau


1952   King Jigme Wangchuck of Bhutan (1926-1952) 


2002   The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900-1904), Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1904-1923), The Duchess of York (1923-1936), Queen consort Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + [Northern] Ireland (1936-1952), Empress consort of India (1936-1947), Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1952-2002)