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Post by Susan » Tue April 5th, 2011, 12:01 am

April 5 in royal history:

April 5, 1691 – Birth of Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

April 5, 1697 – Death of Karl XI of Sweden at Stockholm Palace; buried at Riddarholmen Church

April 5, 1857 – Birth of Alexander of Battenberg, first prince (knyaz) of modern Bulgaria

April 5, 1863 – Birth of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV, at Windsor Castle
Victoria was the daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She married Prince Louis of Battenberg and they were the maternal grandparents of Prince Philip.

April 5, 1951 - Birth of Princess Ubol Ratana of Thailand
Ubol Ratana is the daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. She relinquished her rank as princess in 1972. Her son Bhumi Jensen was killed in the December, 2004 tsunami.

April 5, 1954 – Death of Märtha of Sweden, wife of Crown Prince Olav, at the State Hospital, Oslo; buried at Akershus Castle and Fortress
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Post by Susan » Wed April 6th, 2011, 12:14 am

April 6 in royal history:

April 6, 1199 - Death of Richard I at the Siege of Chalus in France after he is struck by an arrow; buried at Fontevrault Abbey near Chinon, France

April 6, 1790 – Death of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

April 6, 1830 – Death of Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine

April 6, 1871 - Birth of Prince John, son of King Edward VII at Sandringham House, Norfolk
Prince John was the youngest child of Edward and Alexandra. He was born prematurely on April 6, 1871 and died the next day. John was buried in the Sandringham churchyard.

April 6, 1875 – Birth of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, daughter of Tsar Alexander III

April 6, 1889 - Death of Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, wife of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, at St. James Palace; buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

April 6, 1979 - Birth of Lord Frederick Windsor, son of Prince Michael of Kent

April 6, 2005 – Death of Prince Rainier III of Monaco at the Cardio-Thoracic Centre in Monte Carlo; buried at Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Monaco
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Post by Susan » Wed April 6th, 2011, 9:55 pm

April 7 in royal history:

April 7, 1498 – Death of Charles VIII of France at Château d'Amboise, France; buried at Saint Denis Basilica

April 7, 1816 – Death of Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, third wife of Francis I of Austria; buried at the Imperial Crypt, Vienna

April 7, 1818 - Wedding of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of George III, and Landgrave Frederick VI of Hesse-Homburg, at the Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace

April 7, 1845 – Death of Julie Clary, wife of King Joseph Bonaparte of Spain and Naples; buried at the Basilica Santa Croce in Florence, Italy

April 7, 1853 - Birth of Prince Leopold, son of Queen Victoria, at Buckingham Palace

April 7, 1963 - Birth of Jaime de Marichalar y Sáenz de Tejada, former husband of Infanta Elena of Spain
The couple divorced in December, 2009 and the divorce was registered at the Civil Registry of the Spanish Royal Family on January 10, 2010.
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Post by Susan » Thu April 7th, 2011, 11:16 pm

April 8 in royal history:

April 8, 1320 – Birth of Pedro I of Portugal

April 8, 1364 – Death of John II of France at Savoy Palace, London, England; buried at Saint Denis Basilica

April 8, 1605 – Birth of Philip IV of Spain

April 8, 1612 – Death of Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, wife of Christian IV of Denmark, in Copenhagen; buried in Roskilde Cathedral

April 8, 1795 - Wedding of George, Prince of Wales (later George IV) and Caroline of Brunswick at St. James Palace
This marriage is one of the worst ever royal marriages. Upon first seeing Caroline, George said to his valet, “Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.” Caroline said George was fat and not as handsome as his portrait. It is doubtful that the couple spent more than a few nights together as husband and wife. Their only child, Charlotte, was born nine months later. They both found each other equally unattractive and never lived together nor appeared in public together. Caroline was prevented from seeing her daughter. She eventually went to live abroad where she ran up debts and had lovers. She returned to England when George became king and he promptly started divorce proceedings. However, a parliamentary bill dissolving the marriage and stripping Caroline of her title of Queen failed. Caroline was turned away from Westminster Abbey during her husband’s coronation. She died a few weeks later.

April 8, 1818 - Birth of Christian IX of Denmark
King Christian was the father of King Frederick VIII of Denmark, King George I of Greece, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom and Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia. He was as much the "grandfather of Europe" as Queen Victoria was the grandmother. His grandchildren sat upon the thrones of Denmark, the United Kingdom, Russia, Greece and Norway. Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Queen Margrethe of Denmark, King Harald of Norway, Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, King Albert II of Belgium, Queen Sofia of Spain, former King Michael of Romania and former King Constantine of Greece are among his many descendants.

April 8, 1875 - Birth of Albert I of Belgium

April 8, 1970 – Death of Felix of Bourbon-Parma, husband of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, at Fishbach Castle; buried at the Cathedral Notre-Dame in Luxembourg

April 8, 2005 – Birth of Leah Isadora Behn, daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
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Post by Susan » Fri April 8th, 2011, 10:03 pm

April 9 in royal history:

April 9, 1269 - Wedding of Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Leicester (son of Henry III) and Aveline de Forz at Westminster Abbey

April 9, 1363 – Wedding of Queen Margrethe I of Denmark and King Haakon VI of Norway

April 9, 1413 - Coronation of Henry V

April 9, 1483 - Death of Edward IV at the Palace of Westminster; buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

April 9, 1484 – Death of Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, son of Richard III, at Middleham Castle; buried at the parish church at Sheriff Hutton

April 9, 1649 - Birth of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, illegitimate son of Charles II by Lucy Walter
Sarah, Duchess of York, Princess Alice of Gloucester and Diana, Princess of Wales are descendants of the Duke of Monmouth.

April 9, 1835 - Birth of Leopold II of Belgium

April 9, 1953 - Wedding of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg and Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium

April 9, 1955 - Birth of Aso Nobuko, wife of Prince Tomohito of Japan

April 9, 1961 - Death of former King Zog of Albania at Hospital Foch, Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France; buried at Thiais Cemetery in Paris

April 9, 2005 – Wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles at the Guildhall in Windsor
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Post by Susan » Sat April 9th, 2011, 11:47 pm

April 10 in royal history:

April 10, 1472 - Birth of Margaret of York, daughter of Edward IV, at Windsor Castle

April 10, 1502 – Wedding of Frederik I of Denmark and Norway (first marriage) and Anna of Brandenburg

April 10, 1512 - Birth of James V of Scotland

April 10, 1533 – Death of Frederik I of Denmark at Gottorp Castle; buried at the Cathedral of St. Peter at Schleswig

April 10, 1864 - Archduke Maximilian of Austria becomes Emperor of Mexico

April 10, 1904 - Death of Isabella II of Spain in exile at Paris; buried at the Monasterio de El Escorial near Madrid

April 10, 1959 - Wedding of Crown Prince Akihito of Japan (present Emperor) and Shoda Michiko

April 10, 1973 - Birth of Princess Tatjana of Liechtenstein

April 10, 1975 – Birth of Prince Floris of Orange-Nassau, son of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands

April 10, 2004 – Wedding of Princess Haya of Jordan, daughter of King Hussein, and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Heir Apparent of Dubai

April 10, 2007 – Birth of Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, daughter of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
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Post by Susan » Sun April 10th, 2011, 10:38 pm

April 11 in royal history:

April 11, 1240 - Death of Llywelyn Fawr (the Great), Prince of Gwynedd, Prince of Southern Powys at the Abbey of Aberconwy, buried at the Abbey of Aberconwy

April 11, 1373 - Birth of Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March
Until his death in 1398, Roger Mortimer was the heir presumptive to his cousin Richard II. Richard was deposed a year later by another cousin, Henry of Bolingbroke (Henry IV), thus starting the little family squabble that ultimately resulted in the Wars of the Roses.

April 11, 1689 - Coronation of William III and Mary II

April 11, 1921 – Death of Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, first wife of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, at Huis Doorn in the Netherlands; buried in the Antique Temple in the garden of Sanssouci palace in Potsdam
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Post by Susan » Mon April 11th, 2011, 10:22 pm

April 12 in royal history:

April 12, 1555 – Death Queen Juana of Castile at Tordesillas, Spain; buried at the Capilla Real in Granada

April 12, 1577 - Birth of Christian IV of Denmark

April 12, 1866 – Birth of Princess Viktoria of Prussia, daughter of Frederick III of Germany, at Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany
Princess Viktoria, known in the family as Moretta, was the daughter of Victoria, Princess Royal and the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She married Prince Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe. After his death, she made a controversial marriage to Alexander Zoubkov

April 12, 2003 - Wedding of Prince Laurent of Belgium and Claire Coombs
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Post by Rowan » Tue April 12th, 2011, 3:06 pm

150 years ago today, shots were fired on Ft Sumter, South Carolina starting the American Civil War.

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Post by Susan » Wed April 13th, 2011, 12:47 am

April 13 in royal history:

April 13, 862 – Death of Donald I of Scotland; buried at Iona

April 13, 1275 - Death of Eleanor, daughter of King John, at Montargis Abbey, France; buried at Montargis Abbey
Eleanor was the third daughter and fifth and youngest child of King John and his wife Isabella of Angouleme. She first married William Marshall, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and was widowed at age 16. Seven years later, Eleanor secretly married Simon de Montfort. Montfort was a famous statesman and soldier and was killed at the Battle of Evesham. He is considered to be the father of Parliament. After her husband's death, Eleanor became a nun at the Abbey of Montargis in France and is buried there.

April 13, 1519 - Birth of Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry II of France

April 13, 1573 – Birth of Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, wife of Charles IX of Sweden

April 13, 1605 - Death of Tsar Boris Godunov of Russia at Moscow; buried at Zagorsk Monastery

April 13, 1807 – Death of Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, second wife of Francis I of Austria; buried at the Imperial Crypt, Vienna
Maria Theresa died soon after giving birth to her twelfth child, who also
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