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Posted: Tue March 15th, 2011, 10:07 pm
by Susan
March 16 in royal history:

March 16, 37 AD - Death of Roman emperor Tiberius

March 16, 1485 – Death of Anne Neville, wife of Richard III, at Palace of Westminster; buried at Westminster Abbey
Anne died of tuberculosis eleven months after the death of her only child, Edward, Prince of Wales. Her husband was killed at the Battle of Bosworth five months after her death.

March 16, 1687 - Birth of Sophia Dorothea, daughter of George I

March 16, 1792 - Gustavus III of Sweden is shot by Count Ankarstrom at a masked ball; he dies two weeks later
Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in Maschera" (A Masked Ball) is based on the final days of Gustavus.

March 16, 1856 – Birth of Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III

March 16, 1861 – Death of Victoria, Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria, at Frogmore House, Windsor; buried at the Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum at Frogmore, Windsor
Her mother’s death was the first of the two major deaths Queen Victoria had to endure in 1861. Her husband Prince Albert died in December.

Posted: Wed March 16th, 2011, 9:41 pm
by Susan
March 17 in royal history:

March 17, 180 AD - Death of Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor

March 17, 1040 - Death of King Harold I (Harefoot) at Oxford, England; buried at St. Clement Danes Church, London

March 17, 1058 – Death of King Lulach of Scotland at Essie, Strathbogie, Scotland; buried on the Isle of Iona, Scotland

March 17, 1473 - Birth of James IV of Scotland
James IV married the eldest daughter of England's Henry VII, Margaret.

March 17, 1605 – Birth of George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

March 17, 1802 - Death of Sophia Antonia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, wife of Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

March 17, 1849 – Death of William II of the Netherlands in Tilburg, the Netherlands; buried at the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft

March 17, 1886 – Birth of Princess Patricia of Connaught, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, at Buckingham Palace
Known as Patsy in the family, she was the daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia. Upon her marriage to Sir Alexander Ramsay, she voluntarily relinquished the style of Royal Highness and the title of Princess of Great Britain and Ireland and assumed the style of Lady Patricia Ramsay.

Posted: Thu March 17th, 2011, 10:40 pm
by Susan
March 18 in royal history:

March 18, 37 - Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor

March 18, 979 - Death of Edward the Martyr at Corfe Castle, Dorset; buried at Wareham Abbey, Dorset

March 18, 1496 - Birth of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, at Richmond Palace, Surrey

March 18, 1584 - Death of Ivan IV (the Terrible) of Russia in Moscow; buried at the Cathedral of St Michael the Archangel, Moscow

March 18, 1603 – Birth of João IV of Portugal

March 18, 1609 – Birth of Frederik III of Denmark and Norway

March 18, 1848 - Birth of Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria, at Buckingham Palace

March 18, 1913 - Assassination of George I of Greece in Thessaloniki, Greece, buried at the Royal Cemetery at Tatoi
King George I of Greece was born Prince William of Denmark. He was the brother of King Frederik VIII of Denmark, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom and Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia. George's son Andrew was the father of Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

March 18, 1920 – Wedding of Princess Charlotte of Monaco and Count Pierre de Polignac, parents of Prince Rainier III

March 18, 1965 - Death of King Farouk of Egypt in exile in Rome; buried at the Al-Rifa'i Mosque, Cairo, Egypt

March 18, 1983 – Death of Umberto II of Italy

March 18, 1986 - Engagement of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson announced by Buckingham Palace

March 18, 1995 - Wedding of Infanta Elena of Spain and Jaime de Marichalar y Saenz de Tejada
On January 21, 2010, the couple's divorce was registered at the Civil Registry of the Spanish Royal Family.

March 18, 2009 – Wedding (2nd marriage) of Prince Jean of Luxembourg and Diane De Guerre

Posted: Fri March 18th, 2011, 9:48 pm
by Susan
March 19 in royal history:

March 19, 1286 – Death of Alexander III of Scotland at Kinghorne, Fife; buried at Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland

March 19, 1749 - Birth of Princess Louisa Anne of Wales, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, at Leicester House, London

March 19, 1889 – Birth Manuel II of Portugal

March 19, 1976 – Separation of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years of marriage

March 19, 1992 - Separation of the Duke and Duchess of York announced by Buckingham Palace

Posted: Sat March 19th, 2011, 10:37 pm
by Susan
March 20 in royal history:

March 20, 1413 - Death of Henry IV in the Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster Abbey; buried at Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent

March 20, 1469 - Birth of Cecily of York, daughter of Edward IV, at the Palace of Westminster

March 20, 1736 - Birth of Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, Rama I of Thailand

March 20, 1811 - Birth of Napoleon II (Francois-Charles-Joseph Bonaparte), son of Napoleon I and his second wife Marie-Louise of Austria

March 20, 1816 – Death of Maria I of Portugal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; buried first in the Ajuda Abbey in Rio de Janeiro, since 1821 in the Basílica da Estrela, Lisbon

March 20, 1926 – Death of Lovisa of Sweden, wife of Frederik VIII of Denmark, at Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen; buried at Roskilde Cathedral

March 20, 1934 – Death of Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, wife of William III of the Netherlands, at the Palace Lange Voorhout, The Hague, Netherlands; buried at Nieuwe Kerk, Delft

March 20, 1974 - Kidnap attempt is made on Princess Anne in The Mall near Buckingham Palace

March 20, 1982 - Wedding of Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein and Princess Margaretha of Luxembourg

March 20, 2004 - Death of Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, formerly Queen Juliana, at the Soestdijk Palace in Baarn, the Netherlands; buried at the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft

Posted: Sun March 20th, 2011, 10:46 pm
by Susan
March 21 in royal history:

March 21, 1795 – Death of Prince Honoré III of Monaco

March 21, 1819 – Birth and death of Princess Charlotte of Clarence, daughter of William IV, at Fürstenhof Palace, Hanover, Germany

March 21, 1871 - Wedding of Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria, to John Campbell, Lord Lorne later Duke of Argyll, at St. George's Chapel, Windsor

March 21, 1929 – Wedding Olav V of Norway and Märtha of Sweden

March 21, 2004 - Birth of Count Claus-Casimir of Orange-Nassau, son of Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands

Posted: Mon March 21st, 2011, 9:25 pm
by Susan
March 22 in royal history:

March 22, 1421 - Death of Thomas, Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV, at the Battle of Baugé, France; buried at Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent

March 22, 1759– Birth of Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, wife of Charles XIII of Sweden

March 22, 1797 - Birth of Wilhelm I, German Emperor, King of Prussia

March 22, 1852 – Death of Marie Sophie of Hesse-Cassel, wife of Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway, at Frederiksberg Palace; buried at Roskilde Cathedral

March 22, 1956 - Birth of Maria Teresa Mestre y Batista, wife of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg

Posted: Tue March 22nd, 2011, 11:22 pm
by Susan
March 23 in royal history:

March 23, 1429 - Birth of Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI, at Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine, France

March 23, 1801 - Murder of Tsar Paul I of Russia at the Mikhailovsky Castle, St. Petersburg; buried at the Fortress of Sts. Peter and Paul

March 23, 1990 - Birth of Princess Eugenie of York at Portland Hospital, London

Posted: Wed March 23rd, 2011, 11:53 pm
by Susan
March 24 in royal history:

March 24, 1275 - Death of Beatrice of England, daughter of Henry III, at London, England; buried at Greyfriars Church, Newgate, London

March 24, 1603 - Death of Elizabeth I at Richmond Palace; buried at Westminster Abbey

March 24, 1628 – Birth of Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, wife of Frederick III of Denmark

March 24, 1805 – Death of Prince Alois I of Liechtenstein, buried at the Liechtenstein Crypt in Vranov, Czech Republic

March 24, 1866 – Death of Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, wife of Louis-Philippe I of the French, in exile, at Claremont in Surrey in England; buried first at Weybridge, England, re-buried in 1876 in the Orléans Mausoleum in the Royal Chapel at Dreux

March 24, 1953 - Death of Mary of Teck, wife of George V, at Marlborough House, London; buried at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle

Posted: Thu March 24th, 2011, 10:36 pm
by Susan
March 25 in royal history:

March 25, 1005 – Death of Kenneth III of Scotland at the Battle of Monzievaird; buried at Iona

March 25, 1223 – Death of Afonso II of Portugal

March 25, 1306 - Robert Bruce crowned King of Scots at Scone
Robert the Bruce, descendant of one of the original contestants for the Scottish throne, took up the struggle for Scotland's independence after the death of William Wallace, and had himself crowned King of Scotland. His daughter Marjorie married Walter Stewart, High Steward of Scotland. Their son Robert took Stewart as his surname and became the first monarch of the Royal House of Stewart.

March 25, 1734 – Wedding of Anne, Princess Royal, daughter of George II, and Prince William IV of Orange at Chapel Royal, St. James Palace
The Dutch royals are descendants of Anne and William.

March 25, 1751 – Death of Frederik I of Sweden at Stockholm; buried at Riddarholmen Church, Stockholm

March 25, 1975 - Assassination of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia by his nephew Prince Faisal bin Musaid in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; buried at Al Od Cemetery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
On June 18, 1975, Prince Feisal Musaid was publicly beheaded in Riyadh for the assassination of King Faisal.