November 21, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL WEDDINGS, continued

Princess Marie Bonaparte & Prince George/Giorgios of Greece + Denmark   {1907} [CIVIL] in Paris, France

Princess Anne of Ysenburg-Budingen & Count Ernest/Ernst of Lippe-Weissenfeld   {1911} in Budingen, Germany

Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich of Russia & Audrey Emery   {1926} in Biarritz, France [divorced 1937]

Prince Eugen of Bavaria & Countess Helene von Khevenhuller-Metsch   {1970} [RELIGIOUS] in Innsbruck, Austria

Archduke Michael Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany & Eva Antonia von Hofmann   {1992} [RELIGIOUS] @ Bad Ischl, Austria

Ragnhild Alexandra Lorentzen (Norway) & Aaron Long   {2003} in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Empress consort Victoria "Vicky" / "Empress Frederick" of Germany, Queen consort of Prussia, Princess of Great Britain + Ireland, Princess Royal, Princess of Saxe-Coburg + Gotha   {1840}

Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt + Sudan (1914-1917)   {1853}

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 9, 2014 :: Part I

Independence Day in Cambodia {1953}



ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Marie Eleonore of Saxe-Meiningen   {1950}

Queen Sylvia Nagginda of Buganda (Uganda)   {1964}

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Simon August, Prince of Lippe-Detmold & Princess Casimire of Anhalt-Dessau   {1769} in Dessau, Germany

King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (1797-1840) & Countess Auguste of Harrach, Princess of Leignitz {1824} @ Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Germany

Princess Luise Amalie Stephanie of Baden & Gustaf, Prince of Vasa (former Crown Prince of Sweden)   {1830} in Karlsruhe [divorced 1844]

Princess Sophie of Baden & Gunther Friedrich Woldemar, Prince of Lippe-Detmold   {1858} in Karlsruhe, Germany

Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia [Tsar Alexander III of Russia (1881-1894)] & Princess Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar of Denmark (after marriage known as Maria/Marie Feodorovna)   {1866} @ the Chapel of the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia

Duke Anton Gunther Friedrich Elimar of Oldenburg & Baroness Natalie Vogel of Friesenhof   {1876} in Vienna, Austria

Grand Duchess Tatiana Constantinova of Russia, Princess Bagration-Moukhransky & Alexander Korochenzov   {1921} in Geneva, Switzerland

King Michael I of Romania & Queen Anne of Romania, Princess of Bourbon-Parma   {1966} [RELIGIOUS: ROMAN CATHOLIC]

November 2, 2014 :: Part I

All Souls Day (Roman Catholic, Belgium)








El Dia de los Muertos  (Mexico, etc.)





ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Maryam Begum of Afghanistan   {1936}

Queen Sofia of Spain, Princess of Greece + Denmark   {1938}

Shaikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain   {1965}

Brice Gelabele-de Massy   {1987} (Monaco)

Sheikha Aisha bint Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi of Fujairah   {2011}

ROYAL WEDDINGS

(Philippe of France, Duke of Anjou) King Felipe V of Spain (1700-1724; 1724-1746), King of Naples + Sicily & Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy   {1701} [IN PERSON] in Figueras, Girona, Catalonia, Spain

Princess + Landgravine Karoline Luise of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld, Princess von Ardeck & Prince Rudolf of Lippe   {1889} in Dresden, Germany

Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, The Aga Khan III (1885-1957) & Shahzadi Begum   {1896} in Pune, India

October 17, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL WEDDINGS, continued

Prince Rasso of Bavaria & Archduchess Theresa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany   {1955} @ Schloss Wallsee (Wallsee Castle), Amstetten, Austria

Archduke Heinrich of Austria & Countess Ludmilla von Galen   {1961} [RELIGIOUS] in Munster, Germany

Prince Franz Ferdinand of Hohenberg & Heide Zechling   {1964} [CIVIL] in Gmunden, Austria & [RELIGIOUS] in Schloss Orth bei Gmunden, Austria

Prince Tassilo of Furstenberg & Cecilie Blaffer   {1975} in Paris, France

Princess Johanna of Bentheim + Steinfurt & Dominic Andrew Twyman   {2008} [CIVIL] @ Bad Bentheim, Germany

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

Prince Jigme Dorji Wangchuck of Bhutan & Yeatso Lhamo   {2013} @ the Domkhar dzong in Chumig/Chumey, Bumthang, Bhutan

IN MEMORIAM

Queen Petronilla of Aragon   {1174}

Durriand (Durr-I Aden/Hatice Vocibe) Kadinefendi, Consort of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire   {1909}

Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi of Iran   {1954}

Prince Ludwig of Bavaria   {2008}

Sheikh Saqr bin Khalid Al Qasimi of Sharjah   {2012}

October 15, 2014 :: Part III

ROYAL WEDDINGS, continued

Princess Viktoria Marie-Louise/Luise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg & Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe   {1962} [RELIGIOUS] in Glucksburg, Germany

Prince Johannes of Saxe-Coburg + Gotha & Princess Mathilde of Saxony   {1968} [CIVIL] in Munich, Germany [divorced 1993]

Archduke Rudolph of Austria & Princess Anna Gabriele von Wrede   {1971} in Ellingen, Bayern, Germany

Princess Ashi Sonam Choden Wangchuck of Bhutan & Dasho Tsewang Rinzin   {1979} @ Deschenchholing, Bhutan

Hereditary Prince Stephan of Lippe & Countess Maria of Solms-Laubach   {1994} [RELIGIOUS] in Detmold, Germany

Cayetano Martinez de Irujo y Fitz-James Stuart, 5^th Duke of Arjona, 13^th Count of Salvatierra & Genoveva Casanova y Gonzalez   {2005} @ the Palace of Las Duenas, Seville, Spain

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Princess Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Queen consort of Sardinia (1737-1741)   {1711}

King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia (1840-1861)   {1795}

Queen consort Marie of Bavaria, Princess of Prussia   {1825}

Mihrengiz (Fatma) Kadinefendi, Consort of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire   {1869}

King Carol II of Romania (1930-1940)   {1893}

King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan (1933-1973)   {1914}

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 13, 2014 :: Part I

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Sayyid Haitham bin Tariq bin Taimur Al-Sa’id of Oman   {1954}

Archduchess Kinga of Austria, Baroness von Erffa   {1955}

Prince Aimone of Savoy-Aosta, Duke of Apulia, Duke of Aosta   {1967}

Prince Jaime (Jacques) of Bourbon-Parma, Count of Bardi, Duke of San Jaime   {1972} [TWIN]

Princess Margarita of Bourbon-Parma, Countess of Colorno   {1972} [TWIN]

Archduke Thomas of Austria   {1983}

Prince Abdullah bin Mutaib bin Abdullah Al Saud of Saudi Arabia   {1984}

Duchess Helene Olga of Mecklenburg   {1988}

Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed bin Maktoum Al Maktoum of Dubai   {2013}

ROYAL WEDDINGS

Princess Maria Francisca of Orleans-Braganza & Infate Duarte Nuno of Portugal, Duke of Braganza   {1942} [CIVIL] in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal & Nicolaas van Uden   {1945} in Vienna, Austria

Prince Guy Regnier Charles Marie Ferdinand de Broglie & Claude Raymonde Fernande Florence de Dalmas   {1962} in Sarrazac, France [divorced Apr. 18, 1981 in Paris, France]

Princess Catherine Napoleon & Jean Duale   {1982} in Paris, France

Hereditary Prince Stephan of Lippe & Countess Maria of Solms-Laubach   {1994} [CIVIL] in Detmold, Germany

October 12, 2014 :: Part II

ROYAL WEDDINGS, continued

Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia & Princess Kira of Leiningen   {1963} [RELIGIOUS] in Amorbach, Germany [divorced 1972]

Infanta Margarita of Spain, Duchess of Soria, Duchess of Hernani & Dr. Carlos Zurita y Delgado   {1972} @ the Church of Santo Antonio do Estoril (St. Anthony’s Church), Estoril, Portugal

Princess Marie Stephanie of Lippe & Baron Wulf von Schimmelmann   {1989} in Bad Homburg, Germany [divorced 1995]

Prince Miguel of Windisch-Gratz & Maria Vittoria Lepri   {1996} in Marino

Count Klemens of Habsburg-Lothringen & Gislinde Angerer   {1996} in Lavanttal, Austria

Prince Alexis Franz of Croy & Jana Belohlavkova   {1996} in Prague, Czech Republic

King Mohammed VI of Morocco & Salma Bennani   {2001} [NIKAH]

Princess Christine of Salm-Salm & Count Raphael of Hoensbroech   {2002} in Laurentiuskirche, Wallhausen, Germany

Hereditary Count Louis of Erbach-Furstenau & Olga Vassilievna Li   {2008} [RELIGIOUS] @ Meran, Italy

HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Emperor Go-Ichijo of Japan   {1008}

King Edward VI of England + Ireland   {1537}

Praskovia Fyodorovna Saltykova, Tsaritsa consort of All Russia   {1664}

Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (1822-1834), King of Portugal + the Algarves (Mar.10-Apr.29, 1826)   {1798}

Muveddet Kadinefendi, Consort of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire   {1893}