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)