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Post by Susan » Sat December 8th, 2012, 1:16 am

December 8 in royal history:

December 8, 1542 - Birth of Mary, Queen of Scots at Linlithgow Palace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_Scotland

December 8, 1521 – Death of Christina of Saxony, wife of Hans of Denmark, Norway and Sweden; buried first in Gråbrødre Church, then in Saint Canute's Cathedral in Odense
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_of_Saxony

December 8, 1625 – Death of Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, second wife of Charles IX of Sweden; buried at Strängnäs Cathedral, Strängnäs, Sweden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_ ... in-Gottorp

December 8, 1818 - Death of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden in Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl,_Grand_Duke_of_Baden

December 8, 1907 - Death of Oscar II of Sweden at Stockholm Palace; buried at Riddarholmen Church, Stockholm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_II_of_Sweden

December 8, 1956 – Death of Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, daughter of Princess Helena and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, at 10 Fitzmaurice Place, Berkeley Square, London; buried at Frogmore, Windsor
Princess Marie Louise was the daughter of Princess Helena and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. She married Prince Aribert of Anhalt but the marriage was unhappy. Aribert’s father used his prerogative as reigning Duke of Anhalt to annul the marriage. After the annulment, Marie Louise returned to Great Britain where she was involved in a number of charities. She wrote a book called “My Memories of Six Reigns.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_M ... g-Holstein
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Post by Susan » Sun December 9th, 2012, 2:12 am

December 9, 1165 – Death of Malcolm IV of Scotland at Jedburgh Castle; buried at Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_IV

December 9, 1594 – Birth of Gustav II Adolf of Sweden at Castle Tre Kronor, Sweden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_A ... _of_Sweden

December 9, 1706 – Death of Pedro II of Portugal; buried at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_II_of_Portugal

December 9, 1751 – Birth of Maria Louisa of Parma, wife Charles IV of Spain, in Parma, Italy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Louisa_of_Parma

December 9, 1806 - Death of Franz, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in Coburg
Franz was the grandfather of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Fred ... g-Saalfeld

December 9, 1810 – Birth of Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, first husband of Maria II of Portugal, in Milan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_de ... uchtenberg

December 9, 1963 - Birth of Masako Owada, wife of Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan, in Tokyo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako%2C_ ... s_of_Japan

December 9, 1991 - Birth of Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria, son of Princess Astrid of Belgium, at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Woluwe-St-Lambert/Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, Belgium
Full Name: Joachim Karl-Maria Nikolaus Isabelle Marcus d'Aviano
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Joa ... stria-Este

December 9, 1992 - Separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales announced by British Prime Minister John Major
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1990-1999 ... 51,00.html
http://www.johnmajor.co.uk/page1157.html
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=100089 (video of announcement)
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Post by Susan » Mon December 10th, 2012, 12:49 am

December 10 in royal history:

December 10, 1394 – Birth of James I of Scotland at Dunfermline Palace, Fife, Scotland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_Scotland

December 10, 1820 – Birth of Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, at St. James Palace
Full name: Elizabeth Georgiana Adelaide
Elizabeth was the daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (the future William IV) and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. She was born prematurely on December 10, 1820. Elizabeth seemed to be in good health but she developed a fever and had convulsions on March 1, 1821. The cause of death was a strangulated hernia which was untreatable in 1821. She was buried in the Royal Tomb House at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. During her short life, she was third in line to the throne and would have been queen instead of her cousin Victoria if she had lived.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_E ... f_Clarence

December 10, 1865 – Death of Leopold I of the Belgians at Laeken, Belgium; buried at Royal Vault at the Church of Our Lady, Laeken
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_I_of_Belgium

December 10, 1936 - Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdication ... dward_VIII
http://www.heraldica.org/faqs/abdicate.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII
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Post by Susan » Tue December 11th, 2012, 12:55 am

December 11, 1282 - Ambush and killing of Llewellyn ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd, the last native Prince of Wales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llywelyn_the_Last

December 11, 1472 - Death of Margaret of York, daughter of Edward IV; buried at Westminster Abbey
Margaret was the fourth daughter and fifth child of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. She died at 8 months of age and was buried in Edward the Confessor's Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.ph ... 5&tree=LEO

December 11, 1709 – Birth of Louise-Élisabeth of Orléans, wife of Louis I of Spain, at the Palace of Versailles, France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Eli ... l%C3%A9ans

December 11, 1743 - Wedding of Princess Louisa, daughter of George II, to Frederik V of Denmark at Altona, Hamburg, Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_V_of_Denmark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_of_Great_Britain

December 11, 1752 – Death of Adolf Friedrich III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Schwerin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Frie ... g-Strelitz

December 11, 1780 - Death of Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, wife of Franz Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, in Römhild
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_A ... Rudolstadt

December 11, 1826 – Death of Maria Leopoldina of Austria, first wife of Pedro I of Brazil/Pedro IV of Portugal, in childbirth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; buried first in the Ajuda Abbey in Rio de Janeiro, since 1954 in the Ipiranga monument in São Paulo, Brazil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Leop ... of_Austria

December 11, 1829 – Wedding of Ferdinand VII of Spain (4th marriage) and Maria Christina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_VII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Chri ... o_Sicilies

December 11, 1830 – Birth of Kamehameha V of Hawaii in Honolulu, Oahu
December 11, 1872 - Death of Kamehameha V of Hawaii in Honolulu, Oahu; buried at Mauna ʻAla Royal Mausoleum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamehameha_V

December 11, 1850 – Birth of Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton, first wife of Albert I of Monaco, at Hamilton Palace in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
The couple divorced after 11 years of marriage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_ ... a_Hamilton

December 11, 1936 - Abdication of Edward VIII; his brother George VI becomes king
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdication ... dward_VIII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII
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Post by Susan » Wed December 12th, 2012, 12:51 am

December 12, 1212 – Death of Geoffrey, Archbishop of York, illegitimate son of Henry II; died and buried at the Priory of Saint Michael at Grandmont in Normandy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey,_ ... op_of_York

December 12, 1574 - Birth of Anne of Denmark, wife of James I, at Skanderborg Castle in Skanderborg, Denmark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark

December 12, 1791 – Birth of Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, at Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Louise_of_Austria

December 12, 1843 - Death of Willem I of the Netherlands in Berlin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I_ ... etherlands
December 12, 1912 – Death of Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria in Munich, Bavaria; buried at the Theatine Church St. Cajetan in Munich
Luitpold was the regent and the real ruler of Bavaria from 1886 to 1912, due to the mental incompetency of his nephews, Ludwig II and Otto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luitpold%2 ... of_Bavaria

December 12, 1992 - Wedding of Princess Anne and Captain Timothy Laurence at Crathie Church, Ballater, Scotland
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/date ... 547723.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_A ... cess_Royal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Laurence

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Post by Susan » Wed December 12th, 2012, 11:50 pm

December 13, 1470 - Wedding of Edward, Prince of Wales, son of Henry VI, and Anne Neville
Edward was killed in the Battle of Tewkesbury and Anne later married Richard III.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_of_ ... e_of_Wales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Neville

December 13, 1521 – Death of Manuel I of Portugal, buried at Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_I_of_Portugal

December 13, 1533 – Birth of Eric XIV of Sweden at Stockholm Castle, Stockholm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_XIV_of_Sweden

December 13, 1553 - Birth of Henri IV of France in Pau, Kingdom of Navarre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV_of_France

December 13, 1621 – Death of Katarina Stenbock, third wife of Gustav I of Sweden at Strömsholm Palace; buried at Uppsala Cathedral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katarina_Stenbock

December 13, 1826 – Death of Louise d'Aumont Mazarin, wife of Prince Honoré IV of Monaco; buried at Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Monaco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_d%27Aumont_Mazarin

December 13, 1906 - Birth of Princess Marina of Greece, wife of Prince George, Duke of Kent, at Nicholas Palace, Athens, Greece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_M ... nd_Denmark

December 13, 2005 – Births of Princes Nicolas and Aymeric of Belgium, sons of Prince Laurent, at Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium
Full names: Nicolas Casimir Marie and Aymeric Auguste Marie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Nicolas_of_Belgium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Aymeric_of_Belgium
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Post by SonjaMarie » Thu December 13th, 2012, 3:54 am

12-12-12 is the last day for 89 years that the Month, Day, Year line up, most of us will be dead, of course we could all be dead on the 21st if the Mayans were right, but we'll see.

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Post by Susan » Fri December 14th, 2012, 12:53 am

December 14 in royal history:

December 14, 1542 - Death of James V of Scotland at Falkland Palace, Fife; buried at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh; his six day old daughter Mary becomes Queen of Scots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_V

December 14, 1784 – Birth of Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, first wife of Ferdinand VII of Spain, at the Caserta Palace, Caserta, Italy
Maria Antonia died before her husband became king.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_M ... and_Sicily

December 14, 1787 – Birth of Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, third wife of Francis I of Austria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ludo ... stria-Este

December 14, 1788 - Death of Carlos III of Spain at the Royal Alcazar of Madrid; buried at the Royal Seat of San Lorenzo de El Escorial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_III_of_Spain

December 14, 1861 - Death of Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle; buried at the Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore, Windsor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_of_ ... burg-Gotha

December 14, 1873 – Death of Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, wife of Frederick William IV of Prussia, in Dresden; buried at Friedenskirche in Potsdam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_ ... of_Bavaria

December 14, 1878 - Death of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, wife of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of Queen Victoria, at Neues Palais, Darmstadt, Germany; buried at the Mausoleum of Rosenhöhe, Hessen-Darmstadt
Alice died of diphtheria on the same date her father had died 17 years earlier. Alice's youngest daughter May had died of diphtheria a few weeks earlier. Alice's death left her children Victoria (aged 15, Prince Philip's grandmother), Ella (aged 14, married Grand Duke Serge of Russia and died in a mine shaft in Siberia at the hands of the Bolsheviks), Irene (aged 12, married a son of her aunt Victoria, Princess Royal, Empress of Germany and brought hemophilia into the German royal family), Ernest (aged 10, succeeded his father) and Alix (aged 6, married Tsar Nicholas II, brought hemophilia into the Russian royal family and was killed with her family by the Bolsheviks) motherless. Queen Victoria played a major role in the upbringing of these grandchildren.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_A ... d_by_Rhine

December 14, 1895 - Birth of George VI at York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk
Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George was born on the anniversary of the death in 1861 of his great grandfather Prince Albert and of his great aunt Princess Alice in 1878. Queen Victoria received the news with mixed feelings. Her son, the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) wrote to his son, the new baby's father: "Grandmama was rather distressed that this happy event should have taken place on a darkly sad anniversary for us, but I think - as well as most of us in the family here - that it will break the spell of this unlucky date."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI

December 14, 1901 – Birth of Paul I of Greece in Athens
Paul, like George VI above, was also a great grandson of Prince Albert and was also born on the anniversary of his death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_I_of_Greece
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Post by Susan » Sat December 15th, 2012, 1:21 am

December 15 in royal history:

December 15, 37 - Birth of Emperor Nero of Rome in Antium, Italy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero

December 15, 130 - Birth of Roman Emperor Lucius Verus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Verus

December 15, 1263 – Death of Haakon IV of Norway in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands; buried at the Old Cathedral of Bergen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haakon_IV

December 15, 1667 – Birth of Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt at Jägersburg Castle, Einhausen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Lou ... -Darmstadt


December 15, 1719 – Birth of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt in Darmstadt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IX,_ ... -Darmstadt

December 15, 1785 – Wedding of George, Prince of Wales (future George IV) and Maria Fitzherbert at Park Lane, Mayfair, London
Because George married Mrs. Fitzherbert contrary to the Royal Marriages Act, the marriage was legally void. He married without his father's permission (he was then under 25 and his father’s permission was required by law) and Mrs. Fitzherbert was a Roman Catholic, which was in violation of the Act of Settlement. The marriage was covered up with help of the Duke of Wellington, and not made public until 1852, 22 years after the death of George IV. George married his cousin Caroline of Brunswick in 1795.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Marriages_Act_1772
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_IV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Anne_Fitzherbert

December 15, 1885 – Death of Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, King of Portugal and co-ruler with Maria II of Portugal, at Pena National Palace, in Sintra, Portugal; buried at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon
Ferdinand was a first cousin of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and Empress Carlota of Mexico.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_II_of_Portugal

December 15, 1994 - Birth of Flora Ogilvy, daughter of James Ogilvy, granddaughter of Princess Alexandra of Kent, in Edinburgh, Scotland
Full name: Flora Alexandra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Ogilvy#Marriage
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Post by Susan » Sun December 16th, 2012, 12:26 am

December 16 in royal history:

December 16, 1485 - Birth of Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, first wife of Henry VIII, mother of Mary I, at Alcala de Henares, Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon

December 16, 1732 – Death of Prince Josef Johann Adam of Liechtenstein; buried at the Liechtenstein Crypt in Vranov nearby Brno, Czech Republic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Joha ... chtenstein

December 16, 1790 - Birth of Leopold I of the Belgians at Ehrenburg Palace in Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Birth name: Prince Leopold Georg Christian Friedrich of Saxe-Coburg-Saafeld
King Leopold I was the uncle of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_I_of_Belgium

December 16, 1888 - Birth of Alexander I of Yugoslavia in Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Yugoslavia

December 16, 1909 – Death of Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, wife of Miguel of Portugal (after he was deposed); buried at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_o ... -Rosenberg
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