Friday, March 15, 2013

March 10, 2013


ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Prince Higashikuni Nobuhiko   {1945} (nephew of Emperor Akihito of Japan)

Princess Shahlah Pahlavi of Iran   {1949} (1st cousin of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi of Iran)

Sheikha Noufa bint Mubarak Al-Sabah of Kuwait   {1961}

The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, Viscount Severn   {1964} (son of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain + Northern Ireland)


Prince Karl of Bavaria   {1987} (son of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, a cousin of Franz, Duke of Bavaria)


ROYAL ENGAGEMENT

Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld & Pieter van Vollenhoven, Jr.   {1965}



ROYAL WEDDINGS

The Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall + Rothesay, Earl of Dublin, Prince of Saxe-Coburg + Gotha (future King Edward VII of Great Britain + Ireland, Emperor of India) & Princess Alexandra of Denmark   {1866}



Crown Prince Carol of Romania [future King Carol II of Romania (1930-1940)] & Princess Elena/Helen of Greece + Denmark   {1921} [divorced 1928]


Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld [future Queen of the Netherlands (1980-2013)] & Klaus/Claus van Amsberg   {1966}











Princess Eleanora/Leonor of Orleans-Braganza, Princess of Brazil & Michel, Prince of Ligne, Prince d’Epinoy, Prince d’Amblise   {1981}


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Queen consort Luise of Prussia, Electress consort of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz   {1776}


Tsar Alexander III "the Peacemaker" of Russia, Emperor + Autocrat of All the Russias (1881-1894)   {1845}


Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary, Croatia + Bohemia   {1918} (son of Emperor Karl I of Austria)


Prince Alfred von Schonburg-Waldenburg   {1941} (son-in-law of Wilhelm, The Prince of Albania, Prince of Wied)


DEATHS

1826   King Joao VI of Portugal + the Algarves (1816-1826), Emperor of Brazil (Nov.15, 1925-Mar.10, 1826)   


1864   King Maximilian II of Bavaria   


1982   (Nimtaj Ayromlou) Queen Mother Tadj ol-Molouk of Iran (1941-1982) (Queen consort 1925-1941)  


2013   Princess Lilian of Sweden, Duchess of Halland   


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