May 17, 2013

Constitution Day / National Day in Norway

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands   {1971}

Prince Muhammad Yunes Pahlavi of Iran   {1977}

Prince Ra’ad bin Zeid of Iraq   {2001}

Prince Mulay ‘Abdu’llah bin Ismail of Morocco   {2010}

ROYAL + ARISTOCRATIC WEDDINGS 

Lady Elizabeth Sarah Spencer & Neil Edmund McCorquodale   {1980}

Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands & Petra Laurentien Brinkhorst   {2001} [CIVIL]

Hereditary Prince Heinrich Donatus of Hesse & Countess Floria-Franziska of Faber-Castell   {2003} [RELIGIOUS]

Peter Phillips & Autumn Kelly   {2008}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Prince Honore IV of Monaco (1795-1819), Duke of Valentinois   {1758}

Queen consort Caroline of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Ireland (1820-1821), Queen consort of Hanover (1820-1821), Duchess consort of Brunswick-Luneburg, Princess of Brunswick, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel   {1768}

King Alfonso XIII of Spain (1885-1931/1941)   {1886}

Princess Alexandra, Princess Arthur of Connaught, 2nd Duchess of Fife   {1891}

DEATHS

1727   (Martha/Marta/Marfa Samuilovna Skavronska/Skavronskaya/Skowronska) Empress Catherine I of Russia, Empress + Autocrat of All the Russias (1725-1727), Tsaritsa consort of Russia (1712-1725) 

1829   Queen consort Maria Josepha Amalia of Spain (1819-1829), Princess of Saxony

   

1889   Queen consort Marie of Bavaria (1848-1864), Princess of Prussia  

1951   Empress consort Sadako (Teimei) of Japan (1912-1926), Empress Dowager of Japan (1926-1951)

 

May 16, 2013

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Duchess Margarete of Oldenburg, Princess of Croy   {1954} (niece of Anton-Gunther, Duke of Oldenburg)

Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein, Count of Rietberg   {1969} (son of Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein)

Leticia de Massy (Noghes) de Brouwer   {1971} (1st cousin-once-removed of Prince Albert II of Monaco)

Albert Brenninkmeijer   {1974} [husband of Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Parma, Marhioness of Sala (1st cousin of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands)]

Prince Christian Ludwig of Prussia   {1986} (1st cousin of Georg Friedrich, The Prince of Prussia)

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Archduchess Marie/Maria Antonie/Antonia (Marie Antoinette) of Austria & Louis-Auguste de France, Dauphin of France [King Louis XVI of France (1774-1792)]   {1770} [IN PERSON]

Prince Hermann Friedrich of Leiningen & Deborah Cully   {1987} 

Princess Maria Pia of Savoy & Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma   {2003}

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Queen consort Sofie Luise (Sophia Louisa) of Prussia, Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin   {1685}

Queen consort Kurshiah of Malaysia (1957-1960), Queen/Sultanah consort of Negeri Sembilan   {1911}

DEATHS

1826   Princess Luise/Louise of Baden, Tsarina Elizabeth Alexeievna of Russia

1834   Prince Louis-Philippe of Belgium, Crown Prince of Belgium

   

1926   Sultan Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire (1918-1922) 

  

May 15, 2013

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Dom Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, Prince Royal of Portugal   {1945}

Prince Jean of Luxembourg, Prince of Nassau, Prince of Bourbon-Parma   {1957} [TWIN] (son of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg & brother of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg)

Princess Margaretha of Liechtenstein, Countess of Rietberg, Princess of Luxembourg, Princess of Nassau, Princess of Parma   {1957} [TWIN] [daughter of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg & sister of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg; wife of Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein (brother of Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein)]

Zara Phillips Tindall   {1981} [daughter of The Princess Anne, Princess Royal (daughter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)]

Ana Maria Morales y de Grecia   {2003} [daughter of Princess Alexia of Greece + Denmark (daughter of King Constantine II of Greece); niece of Queen Sofia of Spain; niece of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark]

ROYAL WEDDING

Princess Ragnhild of Norway & Erling Sven Lorentzen   {1953}

DEATHS

1792   Holy Roman Empress consort Maria Luisa (Maria Ludovika) (1790-1792), German Queen consort (1790-1792), Queen consort of Hungary + Bohemia (1790-1792), Archduchess of Austria (1764-1792), Grand Duchess consort of Tuscany (1765-1790), Princess of Naples + Sicily (1745-1759), Infanta of Spain (1759-1764)  

2010   Archduke Rudolph/Rudolf of Austria, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary, Croatia + Bohemia

  

May 14, 2013 :: Part II

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

King Vittorio Amedeo II of Sicily (1713-1720), King of Sardinia (1720-1730), Duke of Savoy (1675-1730)   {1666}

King Adolf Fredrik of Sweden (1751-1771)   {1710}

Prince Aloys I of Liechtenstein (1781-1805)   {1759}

Duchess Marie "Miechen" of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1854-1874), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna "the Elder" of Russia (1874-1920)   {1854}

Prince Christoph of Hesse   {1901} (husband of Princess Sophie of Greece + Denmark)

DEATHS

1643   King Louis XIII of France + Navarre (1610-1643)

  

1912   King Frederik VIII of Denmark (1906-1912)  

1922   Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850-1869; 1880), The Hereditary Princess consort of Monaco (1869-1880), Countess Festetics de Tolna (1880-1911), Princess Festetics de Tolna (1911-1922) 

1967   Count Carl Theodor "Toto" of Toerring-Jettenbach (husband of Princess Elisabeth of Greece + Denmark)

1994   Prince Christopher of Yugoslavia