May 6, 2013 :: Part I

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Archduchess Yolande of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary, Croatia + Bohemia, Princess of Ligne   {1923}

Maria del Carmen Ulloa y Suelves [former Princess Bagrat Bagration-Moukhransky (1976-2005)]   {1953}

Princess Sifrash Bizu of Ethiopia   {1959}

Duchess Helene/Helena in Bavaria   {1972}

Princess Adityadhornkitikhun “Dita” of Thailand   {1984} [daughter of Princess Chulabhorn Walailak of Thailand (daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej {Rama IX} of Thailand)]

Prince Gabriel of Liechtenstein   {1998} [son of Princess Marie Isabelle of Orleans, Princess of Liechtenstein (daughter of Prince Henri of Orleans, Count of Paris, Duke of France) & Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein (3rd cousin of Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein)]

ROYAL + ARISTOCRATIC WEDDINGS

Vittorio Amedeo, Duke of Savoy (1675-1730) [King Vittorio Amedeo II of Sicily (1713-1718/20), King of Sardinia (1718/20-1730)]  & Anne Marie d’Orleans   {1684} [IN PERSON]

King Farouk I of Egypt + the Sudan (1936-1952) & Narriman Sadek/Sadiq   {1951} [divorced Feb. 1954]

The Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland & Antony Armstrong-Jones, Esq. [Earl of Snowdon 1961-present]   {1960} [divorced 1978]

Infanta Maria del Pilar of Spain & Luis Gomez-Acebo y Duque de Estrada, Viscount de la Torre   {1967}

Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies & Andreas Baumbach   {1988}

Laura Parker Bowles Lopes & Harry Lopes   {2006} 

May 5, 2013

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Laetitia of Hesse   {1978} [wife of Prince Philipp of Hesse (son of Moritz, Prince + Landgrave of Hesse, Head of the House of Hesse)]

Prince Joel Makonnen of Ethiopia   {1982}

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Princess Louise of Denmark & Prince Friedrich of Schaumburg-Lippe   {1896}

Princess Nimetallah Muhammad Hanim of Egypt + Sudan & Prince Kamal el Dine Hussein of Egypt   {1904}

Prince Sehzade Ahmed Nureddin Efendi of the Ottoman Empire & HH Fasriye Andelib Hanim Efendi   {1919}

Princess Lutfiye Sevket Hilmi of Egypt + Sudan & Omar Muhtar Katircioglu   {1923}

Prince Philipp of Hesse & Laetitia Bechtolf   {2006} [CIVIL]

ROYAL CORONATION ANNIVERSARY

King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) of Thailand   {1950}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, King of the Romans, King in Germany, King of Hungary, Croatia + Bohemia, King of Dalmatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria, Rama, Serbia, Cumania + Bulgaria, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Lorraine, Styria, Carinthia + Carniola, Grand Duke of Etruria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia, Prince of Brabant, Limburg, Luxembourg, Geldern, Wurttemberg, Upper + Lower Silesia, Milan, Mantua, Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla, Auschwitz + Zatoria, Calabria, Bar, Ferrete + Teschen, Lord of Svevia + Charleville, Count of Habsburg, Flanders, Hannonia, Kyburg, Gorizia + Gradisca, Margrave of Burgau, Upper + Lower Lusatia, Pont-a-Mousson + Nomenum, Count of Namur, Valdemons, Albimons, Zutphen, Sarverda, Salma + Falkenstein, Lord of the Wend Margravate + Mechelen, etc.   {1747}

(Maria Eugenia) Eugenie de Palafox-Portocarrero de Guzman y Kirkpatrick (de Montijo), Empress consort of the French (1853-1871), 16th Countess of Teba, 15th Marquise of Ardales, Countess of Montijo   {1826}

DEATHS

1821   Emperor Napoleon I of the French (1804-1814; 1815), King of Italy (1805-1814)

2012   Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg (1951-2012) [former Prince Carl Johan of Sweden (1916-1946), Duke of Dalarna (1916-1946)]

May 4, 2013

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Prince Alexander of Saxe-Coburg + Gotha, Duke of Saxony   {1977}

Pauline Ducruet   {1994} [daughter of Princess Stephanie of Monaco (sister of Prince Albert II of Monaco)]

Pablo Fernandez-Sastron y Gomez-Acebo   {1995} [grandson of Infanta Pilar of Spain (sister of King Juan Carlos I of Spain)]

Prince Henrik of Denmark, Count of Monpezat   {2009} [son of Prince Joachim of Denmark (son of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark)]

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Francais (1815), Prince di Canino (1814), Prince di Musignano (1824) & Christine Boyer   {1794}

Princess Adile Hanimsultan Hanim Efendi of the Ottoman Empire & HIH Prince Sehzade Mahmud Sevket Efendi   {1922} [divorced 1928]

Louis Ferdinand, The Prince of Prussia (1951-1994) & Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia   {1938} [CEREMONY #1: Potsdam, Germany]

Prince Edward Taw Phaya of Burma & Princess Gyi Phaya Rita of Burma   {1944}

Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan & Dr. Areej Zawawi   {1997}


HISTORIC ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Milena Vukotic, The Princess consort of Montenegro (1860-1910), Queen consort of Montenegro (1910-1918)   {1847}

Princess Katharina/Katherine of Greece + Denmark, Lady Katherine Brandram   {1913}

King George Tupou V (Siaosi Taufa’ahau Manumataongo Tuku’aho) of Tonga (2006-2012)   {1948}

DEATHS

1884   Empress+ Archduchess consort Maria Anna of Austria, Queen consort of Hungary, Bohemia, Lombardy + Venetia, Princess of Savoy 

1997   Louis (Napoleon VI), Prince Napoleon (Head of the Imperial House of Bonaparte)   

May 3, 2013 :: Part II

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

King Carl XV + IV of Sweden + Norway (1859-1872)   {1826}

Queen Mother Elena/Helen of Romania, Princess of Greece + Denmark   {1896}

Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, Franconia + in Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine   {1905}

DEATHS

1885   Alexander/Aleksandar Karadordevic, The Prince of Serbia (1842-1858/9)  

1926   Napoleon V Victor Jerome Frederic, Prince Napoleon, 4th Prince of Montfort (Head of the Imperial House of Bonaparte) (husband of Princess Clementine of Belgium)

2012   Donna Victoire Jeanne Josephine Pierre Marie Emmanuelle/Emanuela de Dampierre Sozzani, Duchess of Segovia (1935-1947), Duchess of Anjou (1941-1947)   {wife of Infante Jaime of Spain, Duke of Segovia, Duke of Anjou; mother of Prince Alfonso/Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, Duke of Cadiz, Grandee of Spain; grandmother of Prince Louis Alphonse (Luis Alfonso) of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou}