November 11, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL WEDDINGS, continued

Empress Anna of Russia (1730-1740), Duchess of Courland (1711-1730) & Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Courland   {1710} in St. Petersburg, Russia

Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince Francais & Justine Eleonore Ruffin   {1871} [CEREMONY #3] in Brussels, Belgium

King George (Siaosi) Tupou II of Tonga (1893-1918) & ‘Anaseini Takipo Afuha’amango   {1909}

Prince Anton Philipp of Croy & Princess Clementine von Ratibor + Corvey, of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst   {1940} in Rauden/Rudno (before 1945 in Germany; now in Poland) [divorced 1948]

Prince Veit/Guy of Bourbon-Parma & Brigitte Peu-Duvallon   {1964} [RELIGIOUS] in Cannes,France [divorced 1981]

Heinrich, Prince of Furstenberg & Princess Maximiliane of Windisch-Gratz   {1976} [RELIGIOUS] in Sant’Angelo d’Alife, Caserta, Campania, Italy

Friedrich, Hereditary Duke of Wurttemberg & Princess Wilhelmine Marie of Wied   {1993} [CIVIL] @ Altshausen Castle, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Princess Iris of Saxony & Wolfgang Siegfried Dohring   {1996} in Sonsbeck, Germany

Archduke Sigismund of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany & Lady Elyssa Edmonstone   {1999}

Princess Ashi Kesang Choden Wangchuck of Bhutan & Dasho Palden Yoeser Thinley   {2008} @ the Dechenchholing Palace, Gonpa, Bhutan

November 8, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL + ARISTOCRATIC WEDDINGS, continued

Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr. & Bessie Wallis Warfield   {1916} in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Princess Anastasia of Prussia, Princess of Hohenzollern & Prince Alois/Aloys-Konstantin of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg {1965} [RELIGIOUS: Roman Catholic] in Erbach, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Princess Marie-Therese of Croy & Peter Gumprecht   {2008} @ Vienna, Austria

Prince Nils of Saxony & Jedida Taborek   {2008} @ Moritzburg, Germany

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Nerva, Emperor of the Roman Empire   {30 AD}

Queen consort Elisabeth of Prussia, Electress consort of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel-Bevern   {1715}

King Prajadhipok (Rama VII) of Siam (Thailand) (1925-1935)   {1893}

Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus of Hesse   {1906} (Greece)

Emanuela de Dampierre, Duchess consort of Segovia, Duchess consort of Anjou (Spain/France - Bourbon)   {1913}

October 27, 2014 :: Part I

Flag Day in Greece



ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi of Iran   {1940}

Sheikh ‘Ali bin Fahad Al-Sabah of Kuwait   {1947}

Princess Anita of Orange-Nassau   {1969}

Princess Dana Firas of Iraq   {1970}

Princess Altinai of Montenegro   {1977}

Princess Luiza Carolina of Orleans-Braganza   {1984}

ROYAL WEDDINGS

King Joao V of Portugal + the Algarves (1706-1750) & Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria   {1708} [IN PERSON] in Lisbon, Portugal

Prince Hugo of Lippe-Biesterfeld & Baroness Wilhelmine Schenk von Geyern   {1851} @ Schloss Hohlstein, Germany

(Prince Christian Wilhelm/William George of Denmark) King George/Giorgios I of Greece (King of the Hellenes 1863-1913) & Grand Duchess Olga Constantinova of Russia   {1867} in St. Petersburg, Russia

Crown Prince Constantine of Greece, Prince of Greece + Denmark [King Constantine/Konstantinos I of Greece (King of the Hellenes 1913-1917; 1920-1922)] & Princess Sophie of Prussia   {1889} in Athens, Greece

Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia & Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg   {1906} in Berlin, Germany [divorced 1926]

Prince Karl Rudolf of Croy, Duke of Croy & Nancy Leishman   {1913} in Versoix, Switzerland [divorced 1922]

October 25, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL + ARISTOCRATIC WEDDINGS, continued

Adolf I, Prince Schaumburg-Lippe & Princess Hermine of Waldeck + Pyrmont   {1844} in Arolsen, Germany

Prince Reginald of Croy & Princess Isabelle of Ligne   {1920} in Brussels, Belgium

Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (1918-1943) & Princess Giovanna of Savoy/Italy   {1930} [1^ST CEREMONY – ROMAN CATHOLIC] in Assisi, Italy

Prince Dimitri Alexandrovich of Russia & Countess Marina Sergeievna Golenistcheva-Koutouzova   {1931} in Paris, France [divorced 1947]

Princess Luise of Saxe-Meiningen & Baron Gotz von Wangenheim   {1936} in Detmold, Germany

Prince + Duke Charles-Louis of Arenberg & Philomene Toulouse   {1975} in St. Cirq la Popie, France [divorced before 2005]

Princess Sibylla of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg & Dieter Franz   {1980} [RELIGIOUS] in Glucksburg, Germany

Prince Dmitry Bagration-Moukhransky & Karina Kharysova   {2003} in Kiev, Ukraine [divorced]

Amelie Roussel de Courcy (de La Rochefoucauld) & Patrice de Baudus   {2008}

ROYAL CHRISTENING

Prince Gabriel of Belgium   {2003}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Queen consort Elisabetha/Elisabeth/Elisabetta/Isabel Farnese of Spain, Queen consort of Naples + Sicily, Duchess of Anjou, Princess of Parma   {1692}

Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Wurttemberg (after marriage known as Tsarina/Empress consort Maria Feodorovna of Russia), Empress consort of All the Russias   {1759}

October 12, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL WEDDINGS, continued

Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia & Princess Kira of Leiningen   {1963} [RELIGIOUS] in Amorbach, Germany [divorced 1972]

Infanta Margarita of Spain, Duchess of Soria, Duchess of Hernani & Dr. Carlos Zurita y Delgado   {1972} @ the Church of Santo Antonio do Estoril (St. Anthony’s Church), Estoril, Portugal

Princess Marie Stephanie of Lippe & Baron Wulf von Schimmelmann   {1989} in Bad Homburg, Germany [divorced 1995]

Prince Miguel of Windisch-Gratz & Maria Vittoria Lepri   {1996} in Marino

Count Klemens of Habsburg-Lothringen & Gislinde Angerer   {1996} in Lavanttal, Austria

Prince Alexis Franz of Croy & Jana Belohlavkova   {1996} in Prague, Czech Republic

King Mohammed VI of Morocco & Salma Bennani   {2001} [NIKAH]

Princess Christine of Salm-Salm & Count Raphael of Hoensbroech   {2002} in Laurentiuskirche, Wallhausen, Germany

Hereditary Count Louis of Erbach-Furstenau & Olga Vassilievna Li   {2008} [RELIGIOUS] @ Meran, Italy

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Emperor Go-Ichijo of Japan   {1008}

King Edward VI of England + Ireland   {1537}

Praskovia Fyodorovna Saltykova, Tsaritsa consort of All Russia   {1664}

Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (1822-1834), King of Portugal + the Algarves (Mar.10-Apr.29, 1826)   {1798}

Muveddet Kadinefendi, Consort of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire   {1893}

October 11, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL WEDDINGS, continued

Prince Joachim Murat & Laurence Mouton   {1969} [RELIGIOUS] in Paris, France

Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg, Princess of Great Britain + Ireland & Prince Andreas of Leiningen   {1981} [RELIGIOUS] in Gmunden-am-Traunsee, Austria

Count James William of Castell-Castell & Susan Linda Molnar   {1985} in New York, USA

Prince + Duke Pierre-Frederick of Arenberg & Countess Silvia de Castellane   {1997} [RELIGIOUS] in Bourges, France

Prince Maximilien of Croy & Manon Charlier   {2003} in Sprimont, Belgium

Chifra Lalla Soukaina Filali & Mohamed El Mehdi Ben Abdelmottaleb Regragui   {2013} @ the Royal Palace, Rabat, Morocco

ROYAL CHRISTENING

Victoria de Marichalar y de Borbon, Grandee of Spain   {2000}

ROYAL CORONATIONS

King George II of Great Britain + Ireland   {1727} (O.S. Date)

Queen Salote Tupou III of Tonga   {1918}