March 8, 2013

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Queen Heuifanga Nanasipau’u Tuku’aho of Tonga   {1954} (wife of King Tupou VI of Tonga)

Princess Tsuguko of Takamado   {1986} (1st-cousin-once-removed of Emperor Akihito of Japan)

ROYAL ENGAGEMENT

Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews, Baron Downpatrick & Katharine Worsley   {1961}

ROYAL WEDDING

Sigvard, Count of Wisborg (former Prince Sigvard of Sweden, Duke of Uppland 1907-1951) & Erica Patzek   {1934} [divorced 1943]

Alfonso de Borbon y Dampierre, Duke of Cadiz, Duke of Anjou & Maria del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu y Franco   {1972} [divorced 1982; annulled 1986]

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Willem V, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the Netherlands   {1748}

Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith, Governor of Queensland (1958-1966)   {1900} [husband of Lady May Cambridge, niece of King George V & Queen Mary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland]

Maria (Marita), Duchess of Bavaria, Countess Draskovich of Trakostjan   {1904} (Consort of the Head of the Royal House of Wittelsbach; Mother of Franz, Duke of Bavaria & Prince Max-Emanuel of Bavaria, Duke in Bavaria)

King Salahuddin Abdul Aziz of Malaysia (1999-2001), Sultan of Selangor (1960-2001)   {1926}

DEATHS

1844   [Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of the French Imperial Army, Prince of Ponte Corvo (1806-1810)] King Carl XIV Johan of Sweden + Norway (1818-1844)   

1955   Princess Clementine of Belgium, Princess Napoleon