November 19, 2014 :: Part I

National Day in Monaco







































ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Jose Antonio “Kitin” Munoz y Valcarcel   {1958} (Bulgaria)

Princess Lalla Hasna of Morocco   {1967}

Lady Davina Lewis (UK)   {1977}

The Hon. Edward Lascelles (UK)   {1982}

Pieter Anton van Vollenhoven (Netherlands)   {2008} 

Prince Gaston of Orleans   {2009}

ROYAL WEDDINGS

King Carlos II of Spain & Marie Louise of Orleans   {1679} in Quintanapalha

Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain & Infante Sebastian of Spain + Portugal   {1860} in Madrid, Spain

Princess Friederike Wilhelmine Amalie Viktoria of Prussia & Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe   {1890} in Berlin, Germany

Prince Tassilo of Furstenberg & Claire Agnelli   {1938} in Turin, Italy [divorced before 1975]

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

Princess Donna Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto & Giovanni Agnelli   {1953} @ the Church of Osthoffen, Alsace, northeastern France

Lieutenant Ronald Ferguson & Susan Deptford (UK)   {1976} in London, England, UK

Prince Leopold of Bavaria & Ursula Mohlenkamp   {1977} [RELIGIOUS] in Aufkirchen bei Starnberg, Germany

Duchess Mathilde of Wurttemberg & Hereditary Count Maria Erich of Waldburg zu Zeil undTrauchburg   {1988} [RELIGIOUS] @ Schloss Altshausen (Altshausen Caslte), Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

November 18, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Queen consort Friederike Luise Wilhelmine of the Netherlands (1815-1837), Grand Duchess consort of Luxembourg (1815-1837), Princess of Prussia   {1774}

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia   {1856}

Princess Eva-Benita of Schaumburg-Lippe   {1927}

IN MEMORIAM

Adelaide/Adele of Savoy/Maurienne/Moriana, Queen consort of the Franks/France   {1154}

Infanta Constanca/Constance of Portugal, Queen consort of Castile + Leon   {1313}

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 6, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL + ARISTOCRATIC WEDDINGS, continued

Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg (1919-1964) & Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma   {1919} in Luxembourg

Princess Leonida of Bagration-Moukhransky (Georgia) & Sumner Moore Kirby   {1934} in Nice, France [divorced 1937]

The Prince Henry of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland, Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster, Baron Culloden & Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott   {1935} @ the Chapel Royal, St. James’s Palace (or Buckingham Palace), London, England, UK

Prince Karl Franz Josef of Prussia & Luise Hartmann   {1946} in Hamburg, Germany [divorced 1959]

Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg, Princess of Bourbon-Parma, Princess of Nassau & Landgrave/Count Knud Johan Ludvig of Holstein-Ledreborg   {1951} @ Schloss Colmar-Berg, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg

Princess Hajjah Masna of Brunei & ‘Abdu’l Aziz   {1969} in Brunei Town, Brunei

Prince Sergius of Yugoslavia & Sophia de Toledo   {1985} [CIVIL] in Saint-Nom-la-Breteche, Yvelines, France

Prince Konstantin of Schaumburg-Lippe & Petra Maass   {1998} in Bielefeld, Germany

Prince Louis Alphonse (Luis Alfonso) of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou & Maria Margarita Vargas Santaella   {2004} [RELIGIOUS] @ the Church of San Estanislao de Cravovia, Casa De Campo, La Romana, Dominican Republic

Lady Tamara Grosvenor & Edward van Cutsem   {2004} @ Chester Cathedral, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK

ROYAL CHRISTENING

Prince Nikolai of Denmark   {1999} @ the Chapel of Fredensborg Palace, Fredensborg, Zealand, Denmark 

ROYAL ACCESSION + PROCLAMATION 

King Gyanendra of Nepal (1st accession)   {1950} [deposed Jan. 8, 1951; 2^nd accession June 4, 2001]