October 26, 2014 :: Part I

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Ashraf Pahlavi of Iran   {1919} [TWIN]

Lucas van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven   {2002} (Netherlands)

Amelia Morales y de Grecia   {2007}

ROYAL + ARISTOCRATIC WEDDINGS

Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Francais (1815), Prince di Canino (1814), Prince di Musignano (1824) & Alexandrine de Bleschamp   {1803} [CIVIL] in Chamant, France

[Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria, Prince of Tuscany 1868-1902] Leopold Wolfling & Maria Ritter   {1907} in Zurich, Switzerland [divorced/separated 1911]

Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg & Princess Helene of Waldeck + Pyrmont   {1921} in Arolsen, Germany

Countess Clementine Erika Hedwig Mechtilde Ottilie Marka Martina Helene of Castell-Rudenhausen & Wilhelm Utermann   {1939} in Berlin, Germany [divorced 1954; remarried each other Jan. 24, 1967]

(Prince Sigvard of Sweden, Duke of Uppland 1907-1951) Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg & Sonia Christensen de Robbert   {1943} in Copenhagen, Denmark [divorced 1961]

Patricia Mountbatten, 2^nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma & John Knatchbull, 7^th Baron Brabourne   {1946} @ Romsey Abbey, Hampshire, England, UK

Countess Ladislaja von Meran & Prince Karl Albrecht of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst   {1965} [RELIGIOUS] in Seewiesen

October 24, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL WEDDINGS, continued

Infanta Blanca/Blanche of Spain, Princess of Bourbon & Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany   {1889} in Frohsdorf, Austria

Crown Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Italy [King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy (1900-1946)] [Emperor of Ethiopia (1936-1943), King of Albania (1939-1943)] & Princess Elena/Jelena Petrovic-Njegos of Montenegro   {1896} in Rome, Italy

Friedrich August, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1900-1918) & Duchess Elisabeth of Mecklenburg-Schwerin   {1896} in Schwerin, Germany

Archduchess Helena/Helene of Austria, Princess of Tuscany & Duke Philipp of Wurttemberg   {1923} in Altshausen, Germany

(later Colonel Sir) Henry Abel Smith & Princess May of Teck (1906-1917) [later Lady May Cambridge (1917-1931); then Lady May Abel Smith (1931-1994)]   {1931} @ St. Mary’s Church, Sussex, England, UK

Prince Johannes of Saxe-Coburg + Gotha & Baroness Marie-Gabrielle von Furstenberg   {1957} in Munich, Germany [divorced 1968]

Countess Ladislaja von Meran & Prince Karl Albrecht of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst   {1965} [CIVIL] in Seewiesen

October 12, 2014 :: Part I

National Day in Spain (Fiesta Nacional de Espana)







ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Dina Mir’ed of Iraq   {1965}

Prince Firas bin Ra’ad of Iraq   {1969}

Princess Hajah Muta-Wakkilah Hayatul Bolkiah of Brunei   {1971}

Prince Rahim Aga Khan   {1971}

Prince Wilhelm of Lippe   {1999}

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Jaime II, King of Mallorca (1276), Count of Roussillon + Cerdagne, Lord of Montpellier & Esclaramunde de Foix   {1272} in Barcelona, Spain

Vittorio Amedeo II, Duke of Savoy (1675), King of Sicily (1713-1718), King of Sardinia (1718-1730) & Anna Teresa di Cumiano, Countess di Spigno   {1730}

Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria [King Ludwig I of Bavaria] & Princess Therese of Saxe/Saxony-Hildburghausen   {1810} in Munich, Germany

Crown Prince Maximilian of Bavaria [King Maximilian II of Bavaria] & Princess Marie Friederike Franziska Hedwig Auguste Marie of Prussia   {1842} [IN PERSON] in Munich, Germany

Prince Max Egon of Hohenlohe-Langenburg & Dona Maria de la Piedad Iturbe y Scholtz Marquesa de Belvis de las Navas   {1921} in Madrid, Spain

Infante Juan of Spain, Count of Barcelona & Princess Maria de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Infanta of Spain   {1935} in Rome, Italy

Maria del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, The Duchess of Aliaga, Marquise of San Vicente del Barco, Duchess of Montoro & Pedro Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artazcoz   {1947} @ the Seville Cathedral, Seville, Spain

Countess Marie Cacilie of Meran & Count Karl Ernst von Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg   {1949} in Stainz, Austria

Princess Irene of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld &Waldemar von Thomsen   {1957} in Lindau, Germany [remarriage]