April 24, 2013

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Yi Haewon, Titular/disputed Empress of Korea   {1919}

Archduchess Marie Helene of Austria   {1954}

Princess Anne of Bourbon-Two Sicilies   {1957} (sister of Prince Carlo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro)

Princess Iman bint Al Hussein of Jordan   {1983} (half-sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan)

Prince Rafael of Orleans-Braganza, Prince of Brazil   {1986}

Princess Ana Thereza of Orleans-Braganza   {1995}

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Princess Marie Anna of Bavaria & King Friedrich August II of Saxony (1836-1854)   {1833}

Emperor Franz Joseph I "Franzl" of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, Croatia, Lombardy + Venice, etc. (1848-1916) & Duchess Elisabeth "Sisi" in Bavaria   {1854}

Princess Sofia/Sophie of Greece + Denmark, Princess of Hesse & Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg   {1946} [RELIGIOUS]

Princess Alexandra of Kent & The Hon. Angus Ogilvy   {1963}

Prince Johan Friso of Orange-Nassau, Count of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg & Mabel (Los) Wisse Smit   {2004} 

Sheikh Joan (Joa’an) bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar & Sheikha Al-Maha bint Salem Al-Rumual Al-Mannai   {2008}

ROYAL CHRISTENING

Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor (Princess Louise of Wessex)   {2004} [daughter of The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (son of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)]

DEATHS

1904   King Norodom I of Cambodia (1860-1904)   

1941   King Sisowath Monivong of Cambodia (1927-1941)   

1981   Princess Margarita of Greece + Denmark, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg   

1986   Bessie Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

   

2008   Archduke Raimund of Austria