November 12, 2014 :: Part I

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Duchess Marie-Therese of Wurttemberg, Duchess of Montpensier   {1934}

Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai, Sheikha of Abu Dhabi   {1977}

Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai   {1981}

Sheikh Nawaf bin Ahmad bin Nawaf Al-Sabah of Kuwait   {1982}

Alexander Ogilvy (UK)   {1996} 

Sheikha Shamma bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai   {2001}

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Felipe II, King of Spain & Anna of Austria   {1570} in Segovia, Spain

King Wladislaw IV Zygmunt of Poland & Cacilia Renate of Austria   {1637}

Princess Marie Barbara Eleonore of Lippe & Count Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe   {1765} in Stadthagen, Germany

Prince Sisto/Sixte of Bourbon-Parma & Hedwige de la Rochefoucauld   {1919} in Paris, France

Princess Maud of Fife & Charles Carnegie, 11^th Earl of Southesk   {1923} @ the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London, England, UK

Francesco/Francis Xavier/Saverio, Duke of Parma + Piacenza & Countess Marie Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset   {1927} @ Lignieres, France

Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Durruhsehvar Sultan of the Ottoman Empire & HE/HH Damat Walashan Nawab Sir Mir Himayat Ali Khan Azam Jah Bahadur, Prince of Berar (son of the Nizam of Hyderabad)   {1931} 

November 10, 2014 :: Part III

IN MEMORIAM

Emperor Junnin of Japan   {765}

Theophano Martiniake, Empress consort of the Byzantine Empire   {893}

Adelaide/Aelis of Paris, Queen consort of the West Franks/Western Francia   {901}

King Wladislaw/Wladyslaw/Ulaszlo/Vladislav V/III of Poland + Hungary   {1444}

Ibrahim Pasha, Khedive of Egypt + Sudan (Mar.2-Nov.10, 1848), Wali of Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Syria, Hejaz, Morea, Thasos + Crete   {1848}

Count Pierre de Polignac, Duke of Valentinois, Prince of Monaco   {1964}

Duchess Elena of Leuchtenberg   {2013}

November 5, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL WEDDINGS,continued

Princess Lalla Asma of Morocco & Khalid Bouchentouf   {1986} [NIKAH]

Prince Louis Alphonse (Luis Alfonso) of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou & Maria Margarita Vargas Santaella   {2004} [CIVIL] in Caracas, Venezuela

Princess Stephanie of Auersperg & Rodrigo Prado   {2011} @ Casa Piedra, Chile

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Sultan Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire   {1615}

Princess Fawzia Fuad (Fawzia Shirin) of Egypt + Iran   {1921}

IN MEMORIAM

Elisabeth/Beatrice of Swabia, Queen consort of Castile + Leon   {1235}

King Kazimierz/Casimir III “the Great” of Poland   {1370}

Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Wurttemberg (after marriage known as Tsarina/Empress consort Maria Feodorovna of Russia)   {1828}

(Princess Fatma Kadriye Achba-Anchabadze) Fatma Pesend Hanimefendi, Consort of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire   {1924}

Ludwig Wilhelm, Duke in Bavaria   {1968}

October 31, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL + ARISTOCRATIC WEDDINGS, continued

Maria Elisabetta/Elizabeth Zellinger de Balkany (Italy) & Olivier Janssens   {2002} in Chene-Bourg, Geneva, Switzerland

Prince Richard of Isenburg & Andrea Zimmermann   {2008} @ the Burgkapelle in Langenselbold, Germany

ROYAL CORONATION

King Letsie III of Lesotho   {1997}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

King Fernando/Ferdinand I “the Gentle/the Handsome/the Inconstant” of Portugal + the Algarve, King of Castile in Galicia   {1345}

King Duarte/Edward I "the Philosopher/the Eloquent" of Portugal + the Algarve, Lord of Ceuta   {1391}

Wladislaw/Vladislav/Vladislovas/Wladislaus III of Varna/Warnenczyk, King of Poland, King (as Ulaszlo I) of Hungary, Dalmatia + Croatia, Supreme Prince of Lithuania   {1424}

Charlotte Napoleone, Princess Francaise, Infanta of Spain (1808-1813)   {1802}

King Luiz/Luis/Louis I of Portugal + the Algarves (1861-1889)   {1838}

Queen consort Luise/Louise/Lovisa of Denmark, Princess of Sweden + Norway   {1851}

(former Prince Carl Johan of Sweden, Duke of Dalarna 1916-1951) Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg   {1916}

King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia (1941-1955 as King; 1953-1970 as a ruler in one form or another; 1993-2004 as King)   {1922}

Narriman Sadek/Sadiq (Queen consort of Egypt 1951-1954)   {1933}

October 18, 2014 :: Part II

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan   {1127}

Queen Anna Jagiellon of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania   {1523}

King Mongkut (Rama IV) of Siam (Thailand) (1851-1868)   {1804}

Verdicenan Kadinefendi (Princess Saliha Achba-Anchabadze), Consort of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire   {1825}

Friedrich III, German Emperor, King of Prussia   {1831}

Princess Josephine Caroline of Belgium, Princess of Hohenzollern   {1872}

IN MEMORIAM

King Sancho III of Navarre, Count of Aragon + Castile   {1035}

Germaine de Foix, Queen consort of Aragon, Majorca, Naples, Sicily + Valencia, Countess consort of Barcelona   {1538}

King Ludwig III of Bavaria (1913-1918)   {1921}

Prince Zeid bin Hussein of Iraq, Head of the Royal House of Iraq (1958-1970)   {1970}

Princess consort Georgine “Gina” of Liechtenstein, Countess von Wilczek   {1989}

October 14, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL WEDDINGS, continued

Princess Almut of Saxe-Meiningen & Eberhard von Braunschweig   {1993} [CIVIL] in Vorsfelde, Germany

Duchess Edwina of Mecklenburg-Schwerin & Konrad von Posern   {1995} [RELIGIOUS] in Hemmelmark, Germany

Princess Ilka of Lippe-Weissenfeld & Christian Strassberger   {2009} [CIVIL] @ Munich, Germany

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Przemysl/Premyslas/Premislaus II, King of Poland, Prince of Great Poland + Cracow   {1257}

Marie of Anjou, Queen consort of France   {1404}

King James II + VII of England, Ireland + Scotland   {1633}

IN MEMORIAM

King Harold II Godwinson of England   {1066}

Blanche of Anjou, Queen consort of Aragon, Sicily, Sardinia + Corsica   {1310}

Edward Bruce, Earl of Carrick, King of Ireland   {1318}

Sheikh Jamal bin Salem bin Mohammed Al Qasimi of Ras Al Khaimah   {2012}

October 6, 2014 :: Part I

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Barkat Ali Khan Mikarram Jah Asaf Jah VIII, Nizam of Hyderabad + Berar, Imperial Prince of the Ottoman Empire   {1933}

Prince Muhammad al-Amin (Lamine) Bey of Tunisia   {1962}

Princess Noor bint Asem of Jordan   {1982}

Prince Dasho Khamsum Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan   {1985}

The Hon. Edmund Spencer   {2003} (Spencer)

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

King Wenzel (Wenceslaus/Vaclav/Waclaw) III of Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia + Poland   {1289}

King Louis Philippe I of the French   {1773}

King Frederik VII of Denmark (1848-1863)   {1808}