May 13, 2013

ROYAL + ARISTOCRATIC BIRTHDAYS

Prince Faisal bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Saud of Saudi Arabia   {1950}

Princess Maria of Bulgaria, Princess of Vidin   {1970} [wife of Prince Konstantin-Assen of Bulgaria, Prince of Vidin (son of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria)]

Prince Carl Philip of Sweden, Duke of Varmland   {1979}

Alexander Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles   {1980} (distant cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)

Count Charles-Henri d’Udekem d’Acoz   {1985} [brother of Princess Mathilde of Belgium, Duchess of Brabant (wife of Prince Philippe of Belgium, Duke of Brabant {son of King Albert II of the Belgians})]

                                (shown at far right, next to his sister Princess Mathilde of Belgium, Duchess of Brabant)

Princess Maria de Fatima Isabel of Orleans-Braganza   {1988}

Prince Ernst-August Alexander Wilhelm Bernhard Krafft Heinrich-Donatus of Schaumburg-Lippe   {1994} (son of Alexander, The Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe)

Lukas von Lattorff   {2000} [son of Princess Tatjana of Liechtenstein (daughter of Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein)]

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Archduchess Maria Leopoldina/Leopoldine of Austria & Infante Dom Pedro, The Prince Royal of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil + the Algarves, Duke of Braganza [Emperor Pedro I "the Liberator/the Soldier King" of Brazil (1822-1831), King of Portugal + the Algarves (as Pedro IV, Mar.10-May 2, 1826)]    {1817} [PROXY]

Dom Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, Prince Royal of Portugal + the Algarves & Isabel de Castro Curvelo de Heredia   {1995} 

Princess Malika Kamauva (Milika Khammao) of Laos & Prince Daya Varman Savangsa (Thayavong Savang) of Laos   {2006}

ROYAL CHRISTENING

Prince Georg Antonius of Liechtenstein   {1999} [son of Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein (son of Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein)]

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Empress (consort) Maria Theresia/Theresa of the Holy Roman Empire (1745-1765), Queen (consort) of Germany (1745-1765), Queen (consort) of Hungary + Croatia (1740-1780), Archduchess of Austria (1740-1780), Queen of Bohemia (1740-1741 & 1743-1780), Queen of Dalmatia, Slavonia, Galicia + Lodomeria, Duchess of Burgundy, Styria, Carinthia + Carniola, Grand Princess of Transylvania, Margravine of Moravia, Duchess of Brabant, Limburg, Luxembourg, Guelders, Wurttemberg, Upper +  Lower Silesia, Milan, Mantua, Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla, Auschwitz + Zator, Princess of Swabia, Princely Countess of Habsburg, Flanders, Tyrol, Hennegau, Kyburg, Gorizia + Gradisca, Margravine of Burgau, Upper + Lower Lusatia, Countess of Namur, Lady of the Wendish Mark + of Mechelin, Duchess of Lorraine + Bar, Grand Duchess of Tuscany   {1717}

King Joao VI of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil + the Algarves (1816-1822), King of Portugal + the Algarves (1822-1826), Emperor of Brazil (1825-1826)   {1767}

Prince Honore V of Monaco (1819-1841), Duke of Valentinois   {1778}

King Hisamuddin of Malaysia (Apr.14-Sep.1, 1960), Sultan of Selangor (1938-1942; 1945-1960)   {1898}

DEATH

2008   Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (Jan.15-24, 2006)