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Post by Susan » Tue January 25th, 2011, 1:26 am

January 24 in royal history:

January 24, 41 - Assassination of Caligula, Roman emperor

January 24, 76 - Birth of Hadrian, Roman emperor

January 24, 1328 - Wedding of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault at York Minster

January 24, 1712 - Birth of Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia

January 24, 1746 - Birth of Gustav III of Sweden

January 24, 1779 - Birth of Louise of Baden, wife of Tsar Alexander I

January 24, 1924 – Death of former Grand Duchess Marie-Adélaïde of Luxembourg at Hohenburg Castle in Bavaria, Germany; buried at Cathedral Notre-Dame in Luxembourg
Marie-Adélaïde was a nun from the time of her abdication in 1919 until her death.

January 24, 1924 - Wedding of Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan (later emperor) and Princess Nagako
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Post by Susan » Tue January 25th, 2011, 1:29 am

January 25 in royal history:

January 25, 1308 - Wedding of Edward II and Isabella of France, at Boulogne Cathedral, France

January 25, 1327 - Edward II is deposed in favor of his son Edward III

January 25, 1477 – Birth of Anne of Brittany, wife of Charles VIII of France and second wife of Louis XII of France

January 25, 1533 - Wedding of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, at the Palace of Westminster, London

January 25, 1559 - Death of Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden at Kalundborg Castle; buried at Saint Canute's Cathedral in Odense, Denmark

January 25, 1630 – Birth of Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

January 25, 1661 - Birth of Prince Antonio I of Monaco

January 25, 1755 - Birth of Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, first wife of Tsar Paul I
Name after marriage: Natalia Alexeievna, died after childbirth at age 21

January 25, 1858 - Wedding of Victoria, Princess Royal, daughter of Queen Victoria, and future German Emperor Frederick III at the Chapel Royal, St. James Palace, London
The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn became a popular wedding recessional after it was played at the Princess Royal's wedding. The music is from a suite of incidental music to Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Queen Victoria loved Medelssohn's music and he often played for her when he visited Great Britain.

January 25, 1978 - Birth of Charlene Lynette Wittstock, fianceé of Prince Albert II of Monaco
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Post by Susan » Wed January 26th, 2011, 12:14 am

January 26 in royal history:

January 26, 1763 - Birth of Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, French Marshall, later Charles XIV, King of Sweden and Norway

January 26, 1876 – Death of Amélia of Leuchtenberg, second wife of Pedro I of Brazil/Pedro IV of Portugal, in Lisbon; buried first in the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon, since 1982 in the Ipiranga monument in São Paulo, Brazil

January 26, 1947 – Death of Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten, eldest son of Gustaf VI Adolf and father of Carl XVI Gustaf, in an airplane crash
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Post by Susan » Wed January 26th, 2011, 11:54 pm

January 27 in royal history:

January 27, 1708 – Birth of Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, daughter of Peter I (the Great) and Catherine I of Russia, mother of Peter III
Anna Petrovna died at age 20, several days after giving birth to her son.

January 27, 1773 - Birth of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, son of George III at Buckingham Palace

January 27, 1836 – Death of Wilhelmine of Baden, wife of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine

January 27, 1859 - Birth of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, son of Kaiser Frederick III and Victoria, Princess Royal, at Berlin, Germany

January 27, 2001 – Death of Marie José of Belgium, wife of Umberto II of Italy, at Geneva, Switzerland; buried at the Cistercian Abbey of Hautecombe, Savoy, France
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Post by Susan » Fri January 28th, 2011, 1:06 am

January 28 in royal history:

January 28, 814 - Death of Charlemagne at Aachen, Germany; buried at the Aachen Cathedral

January 28, 1271 – Death of Isabella of Aragon, wife of Philip III of France

January 28, 1457 - Birth of Henry VII at Pembroke Castle, Wales

January 28, 1547 - Death of Henry VIII at Whitehall Palace, London; buried at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle

January 28, 1768 - Birth of Frederik VI of Denmark and Norway

January 28, 1845 – Death of Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, first wife of Adolphe of Nassau, the future Grand Duke of Luxembourg, in childbirth at Castle Biebrich in Wiesbaden; buried at the Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Elizabeth in Wiesbaden

January 28, 1941 - Death of Alfonso XIII of Spain, in exile, in Rome, Italy; first buried at Church of Santa Maria di Monserrato, the Spanish national church in Rome, in 1980 his remains were transferred to San Lorenzo de El Escorial in Spain

January 28, 1950 – Birth of Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain
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Post by Susan » Sat January 29th, 2011, 2:41 am

January 29 in royal history:

January 29, 1601 – Death of Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, wife of Henri III of France, at Moulins, Allier in France; first buried at was buried at the Convent of the Capuchins, re-interred in 1817 next to her husband in the Saint Denis Basilica

January 29, 1749 - Birth of Christian VII of Denmark and Norway

January 29, 1820 - Death of George III at Windsor Castle; buried at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle

January 29, 1844 – Death of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Ernest was the father of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband. He was also Queen Victoria’s uncle.

January 29, 1860 – Death of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, wife of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden

January 29, 1906 - Death of Christian IX of Denmark at Copenhagen; buried at Roskilde Cathedral
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, Queen Sofia of Spain and former King Constantine of Greece are among his many descendants.

January 29, 2000 - Wedding of Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein and Angela Brown
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Post by Susan » Sat January 29th, 2011, 8:49 pm

January 30 in royal history:

January 30, 1649 - Charles I is beheaded at the Palace of Whitehall; buried at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle

January 30, 1676 - Death of Tsar Alexis I at Moscow; buried at the Cathedral of the Archangel in Moscow

January 30, 1730 - Death of Tsar Peter II of Russia at Moscow; buried in the Kremlin, Moscow
Peter II, the grandson of Peter the Great, died of smallpox at age 14.

January 30, 1889 – Apparent suicides of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Baroness Marie Vetsera at Mayerling, Austria; Rudolf was buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna; Marie was secretly buried in the cemetery of Holy Cross Abbey in Heiligenkreuz

January 30, 1894 - Birth of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria

January 30, 1962 - Birth of Abdullah II of Jordan

January 30, 1968 - Birth of Felipe of Spain, The Prince of Asturias

January 30, 2005 – Birth of Prince Hashem of Jordan, son of Abdullah II
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Post by Susan » Mon January 31st, 2011, 12:12 am

January 31 in royal history:

January 31, 1512 – Birth of King Henrique of Portugal

January 31, 1580 – Death of King Henrique of Portugal at Almeirim, Portugal; buried at Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon

January 31, 1606 - Execution of Guy Fawkes, convicted in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament

January 31, 1756 – Birth of Marie-Thérèse of Savoy, wife of Charles X of France

January 31, 1788 - Death of Charles Edward Stuart, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Young Pretender at Palazzo Muti, Rome; buried at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican

January 31, 1899 – Death of Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma, first wife of Ferdinand of Bulgaria, in Sofia, Bulgaria; buried at the Cathedral of St. Louis of France in Plovdiv, Bulgaria

January 31, 1938 - Birth of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
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Post by Susan » Mon January 31st, 2011, 11:30 pm

February 1 in royal history:

February 1, 1168 - Wedding of Matilda, daughter of Henry II, and Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony at Minden Cathedral, Saxony, Germany

February 1, 1327 - Coronation of Edward III
Edward’s wife Philippa of Hainault was crowned on February 20, 1328.

February 1, 1328 – Death of Charles IV of France at Vincennes, France; buried at Saint Denis Basilica

February 1, 1587 - Elizabeth I signs Mary, Queen of Scots’ death warrant

February 1, 1707 – Birth of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, son of George II and father of George III, at Hanover, Germany

February 1, 1908 – Assassination of Carlos I of Portugal at the Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon; buried at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora

February 1, 1965 - Birth of Princess Stephanie of Monaco
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Post by Susan » Wed February 2nd, 2011, 12:23 am

February 2 in royal history:

February 2, 1237 – Death of Joan, Lady of Wales, wife of Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Wales and Gwynedd, at Garth Celyn, Aber Garth Celyn in Wales; her coffin can be seen in Beaumaris parish church, Anglesey, Wales
Joan was an illegitimate daughter of King John.

February 2, 1250 - Death of Eric XI Ericsson of Sweden

February 2, 1455 - Birth of King Hans of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

February 2, 1461 - Edward, Earl of March (the future Edward IV) routs the Lancastrian army at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross

February 2, 1461 - Execution of Owen Tudor following the Battle of Mortimer's Cross
Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V, were the grandparents of Henry VII.

February 2, 1503 – Birth of Katherine Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, at the Tower of London
Katherine’s mother, Elizabeth of York, died of complications of childbirth nine days later. Little Katherine did not survive her mother long and died on February 18.

February 2, 1626 - Coronation of Charles I
Charles’ wife Henrietta Maria of France was never crowned because she was Roman Catholic

February 2, 1650 - Birth of Nell Gwynn, actress and mistress of Charles II

February 2, 1687 – Death of Anne Sophia, daughter of Queen Anne
Anne Sophia was one of the five of Queen Anne’s 18 children who were born alive and one of the three who lived longer than a day. At the age of nine months she died of smallpox. Her sister Mary, aged 21 months, died of smallpox six days later. Both children were buried at Westminster Abbey.

February 2, 1990 - Wedding of Marina Ogilvy, daughter of Princess Alexandra of Kent, and Paul Mowatt
The couple divorced in 1997.

February 2, 2002 - Wedding of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange and Maxima Zorreguieta
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