November 15, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL + ARISTOCRATIC WEDDINGS, continued

Archduke Felix of Austria & Princess + Duchess Anna-Eugenie of Arenberg   {1952} [CIVIL] in Beaulieu, France

Archduke Rudolf of Austria & Princess Anna Gabriele von Wrede   {1971}

Duchess Elisabeth of Mecklenburg & Count Alhard von dem Bussche-Ippenburg   {1974} [CIVIL] in Ludenscheid, Germany [divorced 1995]

Michael-Benedikt, Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach & Dagmar Hennings {1980} in London, England, UK

Princess Felicitas of Saxe-Coburg + Gotha-Kohary & Sergei Trotzky   {1987} in Munich, Germany

Princess Eugenia of Hohenzollern-Emden & Alexander Sautter   {1991}

Princess Sayako of Japan & Yoshiki Kuroda   {2005} @ the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

Count Alessandro Vittorio Eugenio Lecquio di Assaba y Torlonia & Maria Palacios Milla   {2008}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

King Jean/John I “the Posthumous” of France + Navarre, Count of Champagne   {1316}

Archduchess Eleanor/Leonor/Eleonore/Alienor of Austria, Infanta of Castile, Queen consort of Portugal, Queen consort of France, Dowager Duchess of Touraine   {1498}

Jerome-Napoleon I Bonaparte, Prince Francais, King of Westphalia, Prince + Count of Montfort   {1784}

Muhammad Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt + Sudan (1879-1892)   {1852}

King Manoel/Manuel/Emmanuel II "the Patriot/the Unfortunate" of Portugal + the Algarves (1908-1910)   {1889}

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaievna of Russia   {1895}

Prince Shah Mahmoud Khan of Afghanistan   {1946} 

November 14, 2014 :: Part I

Loyalty to Hussein Day in Jordan



ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Archduke Geza of Austria, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary, Croatia + Bohemia   {1940}

The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince + Great Steward of Scotland   {1948}

Duchess Marie Catherine of Mecklenburg   {1949}

Princess Royal Salote Mafile’o Pilolevu Tuita of Tonga   {1951}

Princess Nuria Bagrationi-Mukhraneli   {1953} 

Sheikha Iman bint Fahad Al-Sabah of Kuwait   {1955}

Prince Houd Pahlavi of Iran   {1972}

Sheikha Dalal bint Badr Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah of Kuwait   {1979}

Archduke Joseph of Austria   {1991}

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Prince Arthur Tudor of England, Prince of Wales & Catherine/Catalina of Aragon   {1501} on a platform outside St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England, UK

William III, King of England + Scotland, Prince of Orange, Stattholder of the Netherlands & Queen Mary II of England + Scotland   {1677} in London, England, UK

Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Electress consort of Bavaria & Count Ludwig von Arco   {1804} in Munich, Germany

Count Hugo Friedrich Alfred of Castell-Rudenhausen & Countess Clementine of Solms-Sonnenwalde   {1900} in Klitschdorf/Kliczkow, Poland

Prince Pedro de Alcantara of Orleans-Braganza, Prince of Grao Para & Countess Elisabeth Dobrzensky von Dobrzenicz   {1908} in Versailles, France

October 13, 2014 :: Part I

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Sayyid Haitham bin Tariq bin Taimur Al-Sa’id of Oman   {1954}

Archduchess Kinga of Austria, Baroness von Erffa   {1955}

Prince Aimone of Savoy-Aosta, Duke of Apulia, Duke of Aosta   {1967}

Prince Jaime (Jacques) of Bourbon-Parma, Count of Bardi, Duke of San Jaime   {1972} [TWIN]

Princess Margarita of Bourbon-Parma, Countess of Colorno   {1972} [TWIN]

Archduke Thomas of Austria   {1983}

Prince Abdullah bin Mutaib bin Abdullah Al Saud of Saudi Arabia   {1984}

Duchess Helene Olga of Mecklenburg   {1988}

Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed bin Maktoum Al Maktoum of Dubai   {2013}

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Princess Maria Francisca of Orleans-Braganza & Infate Duarte Nuno of Portugal, Duke of Braganza   {1942} [CIVIL] in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal & Nicolaas van Uden   {1945} in Vienna, Austria

Prince Guy Regnier Charles Marie Ferdinand de Broglie & Claude Raymonde Fernande Florence de Dalmas   {1962} in Sarrazac, France [divorced Apr. 18, 1981 in Paris, France]

Princess Catherine Napoleon & Jean Duale   {1982} in Paris, France

Hereditary Prince Stephan of Lippe & Countess Maria of Solms-Laubach   {1994} [CIVIL] in Detmold, Germany

July 23, 2014 :: Part I

Renaissance Day in Oman

BIRTHDAYS

Sheikh Sabah bin Jabir Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah of Kuwait   {1963}

Prince Nabil Daoud Abdelmoneim Hilmi Bey of Egypt   {1979}

Princess Georgina of Liechtenstein, Countess of Rietberg   {2005}

ACCESSION ANNIVERSARIES

Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Oman   {1970}

King Mohammed VI of Morocco   {1999}

IN MEMORY...

Shigeko Higashikuni (former Princess Shigeko of Japan, Princess Teru 1925-1943; Princess Morihiro of Higashikuni 1943-1947)   {1961}

Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg, Archduchess of Austria   {1989}

King Hassan II of Morocco (1961-1999)   {1999}

King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan (1933-1973)   {2007}

August 2, 2013 :: Part I

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Alice, Duchess of Mecklenburg   {1959}


ROYAL WEDDINGS

Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (1822-1834), King of Portugal + the Algarves (Mar.10-Apr.29, 1826) & Amelia de Beauharnais, Princess of Leuchtenberg   {1829} [PROXY]

Prince Xhelal Bey Zogu of Albania & Faika Minxhalliu   {1932} [divorced 1933]

Princess Dorothea of Bavaria & Archduke Gottfried of Austria   {1938} [CIVIL]

Princess Eleonore of Bavaria & Count Konstantin von Waldburg zu Zeil u.Trauchburg   {1951} [CIVIL]

Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia & Princess Christina of Hesse   {1956} [divorced 1962]

Princess Daravani (Dalavan) of Laos & Prince Suriya Varman Savangsa (Sauryavong Savang) of Laos   {1965}

Prince Jacques of Orleans, Duke of Orleans & Gersende de Sabran-Ponteves   {1969} [CIVIL]

               

Princess Maria Annunziata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies & Count Carl Fredrik Creutz   {2003}

ROYAL CHRISTENING

Princess Maria Chiara of Bourbon-Two Sicilies   {2005}

July 26, 2013 :: Part I

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Sheikh Khalid bin Mubarak Al-Sabah of Kuwait   {1962}

Prince Talal bin Muhammad of Jordan   {1965}

Crown Princess Yasmine Pahlavi of Iran   {1968}

Princess Hajah Rashida Sa’adatul Bolkiah of Brunei   {1969}

Princess Safa bint Firas of Iraq   {2001}

Princess Iryana Leila Pahlavi of Iran   {2011}

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Grand Duke Peter Nikolaievich of Russia & Princess Militza of Montenegro   {1889}

Princess Ileana of Romania & Archduke Anton of Austria   {1931} [divorced 1954]

Duchess Karoline Luise Irene of Mecklenburg & Constantin Harmsen   {1980}

Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg, Head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz & Alice Wagner   {1986} [RELIGIOUS]

Prince Carl Christian of Hohenzollern & Nicole Neschitsch   {1999} [RELIGIOUS] 

ROYAL CHRISTENING

Prince Henrik of Denmark, Count of Monpezat   {2009}

ROYAL ACCESSION ANNIVERSARY

King Fuad II of Egypt   {1952}