October 20, 2014 :: Part I

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Empress Michiko of Japan   {1934}

Prince Fahd bin Sultan Al Saud of Saudi Arabia   {1950}

Crown Prince Sayyid Mohammed al-Rida bin Sayyid Hasan al-Rida al-Mahdi al-Sanussi/El Senussi of Libya   {1962}

Duchess Maria del Pilar of Oldenburg   {1970}

Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster   {1974} 



ROYAL + ARISTOCRATIC WEDDINGS

Philipp/Felipe I, Duke of Brabant + Burgundy, King of Castile (1504) & Queen Juana of Castile   {1496} in Liera

Queen Joanna III of Navarre, Princess de Bearn, Duchess d’Albret, Countess de Goix & Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome, King of Navarre   {1548} in Moulins

King Fernando VII of Spain (1819-1833) & Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony   {1819} [IN PERSON] in Madrid, Spain

Infanta Maria Teresa of Portugal, Princess of Beira & Infante Carlos of Spain   {1838} [IN PERSON] in Azcoitia, Spain

Duchess Luise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin & Prince Hugo of Windisch-Gratz   {1849} in Ludwigslust, Germany

Prince Valdemar of Denmark & Princess Marie of Orleans   {1885} [CIVIL] in Paris, France

Emperor Karl of Austria (1916-1918/1919) & Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma   {1911} [CEREMONY #1]

June 6, 2013 :: Part II

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Prince Sehzade Mehmed Abdul Kadir Efendi of the Ottoman Empire & HH Princess Mihriban Hanim Efendi   {1907}

King Idris I of Libya (1951-1969) & Aliya Khanum Effendi   {1955} [divorced May 20, 1958]

Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia & Princess Margarita of Baden   {1957} [divorced 1982]

Duke Huno of Oldenburg & Countess Felicitas-Anna Schwerin von Krosigk   {1970}

Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg & Count Jefferson-Friedrich von Pfeil + Klein-Ellguth   {1998}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

King Jose I "the Reformer" of Portugal + the Algarves (1750-1777)   {1714}

Holy Roman Empress consort Maria Teresa/Theresa (1792-1806), Empress consort of Austria (1804-1807), Queen consort of the Romans (1792-1806), German Queen consort (1792-1906), Queen consort of Hungary + Bohemia (1792-1807), Archduchess consort of Austria (1792-1807), Princess of Naples + Sicily, Infanta of Spain   {1772}

Princess Viktoria Alix ("Alicky" "Sunny") of Hesse + by Rhine (after marriage known as Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, Empress consort of All the Russias)   {1872}

John Ambler   {1924} (estranged husband of Princess Margaretha of Sweden)

DEATH

2012   Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (1st cousin of Emperor Akihito of Japan)   

May 25, 2013

Independence Day / National Day in Jordan  {1946}

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Emir of Fujairah   {1948}

Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau   {1966} [wife of Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands (brother of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands)]

Prince George of Yugoslavia   {1984} (son of the late Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia & Princess Margarita of Baden)

Samuel van Vollenhoven   {2004} [son of Prince Bernhard of Orange-Nassau (1st cousin of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands)]

Tane Mahuta Lewis   {2012} [son of Lady Davina Lewis (daughter of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester {1st cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland})]

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Lucien (Luciano) Bonaparte, Prince Francais (1815), 1st Prince of Canino, Count of Apollino + Lord of Nemori (1814-1840), 1st Prince of Musignano (1824-1840) & Alexandrine de Bleschamp, Madame Jouberthon   {1803} [RELIGIOUS] 

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Princess Imperial of Austria, Princess Royal of Bohemia, Hungary + Tuscany & Prince Elias (Elia) of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma + Piacenza (1950-1959)   {1903}

King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan (1952-1999) & Antoinette “Toni” Gardiner (Princess Muna Al-Hussein of Jordan)   {1961} [divorced Dec.21, 1971]

Princess Birgitta of Sweden & Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern   {1961} [CIVIL]

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Prince Aloys II of Liechtenstein (1836-1858)   {1796}

The Princess Helena "Helenchen/Lenchen" of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg   {1846}

DEATH

1983   King Idris I of Libya (1951-1969)   

April 7, 2013

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Dowager Archduchess Margherita of Austria-Este, Princess Imperial of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary, Bohemia + Croatia, Princess of Savoy-Aosta   {1930} (aunt of Archduke Karl of Austria, Head of the Imperial House of Habsburg & mother of Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este)

Princess Elisabeth of Yugoslavia   {1936} (cousin of Crown Prince Alexander II of Serbia)

Tord Magnuson   {1941} [husband of Princess Christina of Sweden (sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden)]

Sheikh Salim bin Fahad Al Sabah of Kuwait   {1953}

Prince Sayyid al-Mahdi bin Sayyid Hasan al-Rida al-Mahdi al-Sanussi of Libya   {1960}

Jaime de Marichalar y Saenz de Tejada   {1963} [ex-husband of Infanta Elena of Spain, Duchess of Lugo (daughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain)]

ROYAL WEDDINGS

King Ferdinando I (Ferdinand I) of the Two Sicilies (1816-1825) & Archduchess Maria Carolina/Karolina of Austria {1768} [PROXY]

Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria, Franconia + Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine &  Princess Antonia/Antoinette "Toni" of Luxembourg, Princess of Nassau   {1921}

Princess Mihrishah Selcuk Sultan of the Ottoman Empire & Ismail Assem   {1966}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

The Prince Leopold of Great Britain + Ireland, Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, Baron Arklow   {1853}

Princess Fawzia Farouk of Egypt   {1940}

DEATHS

1816   Empress consort Maria Ludowika/Ludovika of Austria, Queen consort of Hungary + Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria-Este, Princess of Modena  

1845   Marie Julie Clary Bonaparte, Queen consort of Naples + Sicily (1806-1808), Queen consort of Spain + the Indies (1808-1813), Countess de Survilliers  

March 23, 2013

ROYAL & ARISTOCRATIC BIRTHDAYS

The Hon. Alexander Fellowes   {1983} (1st cousin of Prince William of Wales, Duke of Cambridge through the Spencer Family)

Princess Eugenie of York   {1990} [daughter of The Prince Andrew, Duke of York (son of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland)]

Prince Paul of Saxe-Gessaphe   {1993}

Countess Carolina of Ortenburg   {1997} [daughter of Princess Desiree of Hohenzollern (daughter of Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Princess of Hohenzollern {sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden})]

Prince Beltran Turnovski of Bulgaria   {1999} [son of Crown Prince Kardam of Bulgaria, Prince of Turnovo (son of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria)]

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Prince Idris bin Abdullah al-Senussi of Libya & Ana Maria Quinones de Leon   {1987}

March 12, 2013

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Farahnaz Pahlavi of Iran   {1963} (sister of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi of Iran)

Prince Sergius “Serge” of Yugoslavia   {1963} [TWIN] [son of Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (a cousin of Crown Prince Alexander II of Serbia) & Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (sister of Crown Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, Prince of Naples)]

Princess Helene of Yugoslavia   {1963} [TWIN] [daughter of Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (a cousin of Crown Prince Alexander II of Serbia) & Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (sister of Crown Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, Prince of Naples)]

Princess Hajah Hafizah Suurul Bolkiah of Brunei   {1980} (daughter of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei)

Archduchess Sophia of Austria   {1998} [daughter of Archduke Raimund of Austria (1st cousin of Archduke Karl of Austria, Head of the Imperial House of Habsburg)]

Prince Gabriel of Nassau   {2006} [son of Prince Louis of Luxembourg (son of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg & grandson of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg)]

Xan Windsor, Baron Culloden   {2007} [son of Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster (son of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester {1st cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland})]

Benjamin van Vollenhoven   {2008} [son of Prince Bernhard of Orange-Nassau (son of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands {sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands})]

ROYAL ENGAGEMENT

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden & Silvia Sommerlath   {1976}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Queen consort Friederike/Frederica of Sweden, Princess of Baden   {1781}

King Idris I of Libya (1951-1969)   {1889}

DEATHS

1808   King Christian VII of Denmark + Norway (1766-1808)