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Post by Susan » Sat March 5th, 2011, 10:16 pm

March 6 in royal history:

March 6, 1340 - Birth of John of Gaunt, son of Edward III

March 6, 1823 – Birth of Karl of Württemberg

March 6, 1903 - Birth of Princess Kuni Nagako, wife of Emperor Hirohito

March 6, 1913 - 300th anniversary of Romanov rule in Russia (New Style Date)

March 6, 1954 – Death of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, grandson of Queen Victoria, at Coburg, Germany
Prince Charles Edward was the son of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany and Princess Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont. Charles Edward was born after his father’s death and was Duke of Albany at birth. At age 14, he became Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha upon the death of his uncle Prince Alfred. Charles Edward married Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. Their daughter Princess Sibylla was the mother of the current king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf,

March 6, 1964 - Death of Paul I of Greece at Tatoi near Athens; buried at the Tatoi Royal Cemetery

March 6, 1999 - Death of Sheikh Isa II bin Salman Al Khalifa, Emir of Bahrain
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Post by Susan » Sun March 6th, 2011, 9:57 pm

March 7 in royal history:

March 7, 1578 – Death of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, daughter of Margaret Tudor and mother of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; buried in the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey

March 7, 1930 - Birth of Antony Armstrong-Jones, husband of Princess Margaret, at London

March 7, 1931 - Birth of Princess Atsuko of Japan
Princess Atsuko is the daughter of Emperor Hirohito and sister of the present Emperor Akihito. She is known as Mrs. Ikeda Takamasa.

March 7, 1943 – Wedding of Prince Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein and Georgina, Countess von Wilczeck

March 7, 1965 – Death of Louise of Battenberg (Lady Louise Mountbatten), second wife of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, at Saint Göran Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; buried at the Royal Burial Ground at Haga
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Post by Susan » Mon March 7th, 2011, 9:47 pm

March 8 in royal history:

March 8, 1137 - Death of Adela of Normandy, daughter of William the Conqueror, at Marcigny-sur-Loire, France; buried at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Caen, France
Adela was one of the six daughters of William I and Matilda of Flanders. She married Stephen, Count of Blois and it was their son Stephen who took the throne of his uncle Henry I from Henry's only surviving child Matilda/Maud causing a long civil war. Adela became a nun in the Cluniac Priory of Marcigny-sur-Loire and died there.

March 8, 1702 - Death of William III at Kensington Palace; buried at Westminster Abbey

March 8, 1724 – Birth of Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

March 8, 1749 - Birth of Princess Louisa Anne of Wales, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, at Leicester House, London

March 8, 1844 - Death of Carl XIV Johan of Sweden and Norway, in Stockholm; buried at the Church of Riddarholmen
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Post by Susan » Tue March 8th, 2011, 10:47 pm

March 9 in royal history:

March 9, 1202 - Death of Sverre I of Norway in Bergen, Norway; buried at Christ Church, Bergen

March 9, 1566 - Murder of David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, in her presence at the Palace of Holyrood; buried at Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh

March 9, 1721 – Birth of Caroline of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

March 9, 1888 - Death of Wilhelm I, King of Prussia, German Emperor in Berlin, Germany; buried at Charlottenburg Palace Mausoleum in Berlin, Germany
Wilhelm I was succeeded by his son Frederick III, husband of Victoria, British Princess Royal. Already ill with throat cancer, Frederick reigned only 3 months and was succeeded by his son Wilhelm II. 1888 is known as the "year of the three emperors."
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Post by Susan » Wed March 9th, 2011, 10:50 pm

March 10 in royal history:

March 10, 1452 – Birth of Ferdinand II of Aragon

March 10, 1776 – Birth of Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of Frederick William III of Prussia

March 10, 1826 – Death of João VI of Portugal in Lisbon; buried at Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon

March 10, 1845 - Birth of Tsar Alexander III of Russia at St. Petersburg

March 10, 1863 - Wedding of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor

March 10, 1864 – Death of Maximilian II of Bavaria in Munich; buried at Theatinerkirche in Munich

March 10, 1960 - Wedding of Princess Takako of Japan and Shimazu Hisanaga
Princess Takako is the sister of the present Emperor Akihito and daughter of the late Emperor Hirohito. She lost her rank and title upon marriage and is known as Mrs. Shimazu Hisanaga.

March 10, 1964 - Birth of Prince Edward at Buckingham Palace

March 10, 1966 - Wedding of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Claus von Amsberg
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Post by Susan » Thu March 10th, 2011, 10:50 pm

March 11 in royal history:

March 11, 1278 - Birth of Mary of Woodstock, daughter of Edward I, at Windsor Castle
Mary was the tenth child and sixth daughter of Edward I and his first wife Eleanor of Castile. Mary became a nun in 1285 and lived the rest of her life at the Benedictine convent at Amesbury, Wiltshire where she died and was buried in 1332.

March 11, 1810 – Wedding of Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie Louise of Austria

March 11, 1899 - Birth of Frederick IX of Denmark
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Post by Susan » Fri March 11th, 2011, 10:29 pm

March 12 in royal history:

March 12, 1470 – Yorkists win the Battle of Losecote Field

March 12, 1507 – Death of Cesare Borgia, the prototype of Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince," at the siege of Viana, Spain

March 12, 1637 – Birth of Lady Anne Hyde, first wife of James, Duke of York (later James II), at Cranbourne Lodge, Windsor
Anne died before her husband became king. She was the mother of two Queens Regnant, Mary II and Anne.

March 12, 1781 – Birth of Frederica of Baden, wife of Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden

March 12, 1821 – Birth of Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria
He was the regent of Bavaria from 1886 to 1912, due to the mental instability of his nephews, Ludwig II and Otto.
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Post by Susan » Sun March 13th, 2011, 1:03 am

March 13 in royal history:

March 13, 1741 - Birth of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

March 13, 1808 - Death of Christian VII of Denmark and Norway in Rendsborg, now in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; buried at Roskilde Cathedral

March 13, 1879 - Wedding of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, son of Queen Victoria, and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia at St. George's Chapel, Windsor

March 13, 1881 - Assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia when a bomb is thrown at him near the Winter Palace; buried at the Fortress of Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Petersburg

March 13, 1892 - Death of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine at Neues Palais, Darmstadt, Germany; in the New Mausoleum, Rosenhöhe Park, Darmstadt

March 13, 1948 – Death of Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, at Fitzmaurice Place, Berkeley Square, London; buried at Frogmore, Windsor
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Post by Susan » Sun March 13th, 2011, 11:59 pm

March 14 in royal history:

March 14, 1807 – Birth of Josephine of Leuchtenberg, wife of Oscar I of Sweden and Norway

March 14, 1820 - Birth of Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia and Italy

March 14, 1844 – Birth of Umberto I of Italy

March 14, 1958 - Birth of Prince Albert II of Monaco

March 14, 1989 - Death of Zita of Bourbon-Parma, wife of Karl I, last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, in Zizers, Switzerland; buried at the Imperial Crypt in Vienna, her heart is with Emperor Karl’s heart in the Monastery of Muri, Switzerland
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Post by Susan » Mon March 14th, 2011, 9:47 pm

March 15 in royal history:

March 15, 76 - Birth of Roman Emperor Hadrian

March 15, 1275 - Birth of Margaret of England, daughter of Edward I, at Windsor Castle

March 15, 1721 – Death of Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, first wife of the Frederick IV of Denmark, in Copenhagen; buried at Roskilde Cathedral

March 15, 1917 - Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II
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