April 29, 2013 :: Part II

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Karl-Theodor, Duke in Bavaria & Infanta Maria Jose/Josepha of Portugal   {1874}

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia & Princess Stana / Anastasia of Montenegro   {1907}

Princess Rukiye Sabiha Sultan Hanim Efendi of the Ottoman Empire & Prince Sehzade Omer Faruk Efendi   {1920}

Prince Sehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin Efendi of the Ottoman Empire (King of Albania 1914) & Georgina Leonora Barnard Mosselmans   {1925} [divorce 1925] 

Prince Thomas (Gaetano) of Bourbon-Parma & Princess Margarete of Thurn + Taxis   {1931} [divorced 1955]

Princess Irene of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld & Prince Carlos Hugo (Charles Hugues) of Bourbon-Parma, Prince of Asturias, Duke of San Jaime, Duke of Madrid   {1964} [divorced 1981]

(former Prince Gustaf Lennart of Sweden) Count Gustaf Lennart Bernadotte of Wisborg & Sonja Anita Maria Haunz   {1972}

Archduke Raimund (Ramon) of Austria & Bettina Gotz   {1994} [CIVIL]

Prince William of Wales, Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn, Baron Carrickfergus & Catherine "Kate" Middleton   {2011}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Tsar Alexander II "the Liberator" of Russia, Emperor + Autocrat of All the Russias, King of Poland & Grand Prince of Finland (1855-1881)   {1818} {Old Style date is April 17, 1818}

Emperor (Hirohito) Showa of Japan (1926-1989)   {1901}