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Post by Susan » Thu September 8th, 2011, 11:47 pm

September 9 in royal history:

September 9, 1000 – Death of Olaf I of Norway

September 9, 1087 - Death of William I (the Conqueror) at Hermentrube, Rouen, France; his son William II Rufus becomes king, buried at St. Stephen Abbey, Caen, Normandy, France

September 9, 1342 - Wedding of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III, and Lady Elizabeth de Burgh, at the Tower of London

September 9, 1513 - Death of James IV of Scotland at the Battle of Flodden Field; a body, thought to be his, lay unburied in Sheen Abbey, Surrey and was lost during the Reformation

September 9, 1700 – Birth of Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, wife of Franz Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

September 9, 1730 - Death of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland , illegitimate son of Charles II by Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (aka Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine)

September 9, 1826 – Birth of Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden

September 9, 1882 - Birth of Henry Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, husband of Mary, Princess Royal

September 9, 2000 - Birth of Victoria de Marichalar, daughter of Infanta Elena of Spain
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Post by Susan » Fri September 9th, 2011, 11:29 pm

September 10 in royal history:

September 10, 1167 - Death of Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I, mother of Henry II, at the Abbey of Notre Dame des Prés, Rouen; buried in Rouen Cathedral, Rouen, France

September 10, 1547 – Birth of George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

September 10, 1638 – Birth of Maria Theresa of Spain, wife of Louis XIV of France

September 10, 1669 – Death of Henrietta Maria of France, wife of Charles I of England, at Château St. Colombes, Paris, France; buried at St. Denis Basilica, near Paris

September 10, 1898 – Stabbing death of Elisabeth of Bavaria, wife of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, at Geneva, Switzerland; buried in the Imperial Crypt, Vienna

September 10, 1948 - Death of Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria in exile at Coburg, Germany; buried at St. Augustin's Roman Catholic Church, Coburg

September 10, 2006 – Death of King Taufa’ahau Tupou of Tonga at Mercy Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand; buried at Mala’e Kula, Nuku’alofa, Tonga
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Post by Susan » Sat September 10th, 2011, 9:28 pm

Foremost, remember what happened 10 years ago on September 11, 2001.

September 11 in royal history:

September 11, 1297 - William Wallace, leader of the Scots' resistance, defeats the English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge

September 11, 1349 – Death of Bonne of Luxembourg, first wife of the future John II of France, of the bubonic plague in Maubisson, France; buried at the Maubuisson Abbey

September 11, 1822 – Birth of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, wife of Charles I of Württemberg

September 11, 1937 - Birth of Paola Ruffo di Calabria, wife of Albert II of Belgium

September 11, 1966 - Birth of Kiko Kawashima, wife of Prince Akishino of Japan
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Post by Susan » Sun September 11th, 2011, 11:38 pm

September 12, 1348 - Death of Jeanne de Bourgogne (the Lame) from the plague, first wife of Philip VI of France, at Paris; buried at the Basilica of Saint Denis

September 12, 1369 – Death of Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt, mother of Henry IV, of the plague at Bolingbroke Castle, Lindsey; buried at St Paul's Cathedral

September 12, 1494 - Birth of Francis I of France

September 12, 1612 – Death of Tsar Vasili IV of Russia

September 12, 1683 - Death of Afonso VI of Portugal at Royal Palace of Cintra; buried at Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon

September 12, 1739 – Death of Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

September 12, 1837 - Birth of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine, husband of Princess Alice who was Queen Victoria's daughter

September 12, 1917 – Death of Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, second wife of Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, at Euxinograd Palace, near Varna, Bulgaria; buried in the cemetery at Boyana Church, near Sofia

September 12, 1938 – Death of Prince Arthur of Connaught, grandson of Queen Victoria, at 41 Belgrave Square, London; buried at Frogmore, Windsor
Prince Arthur was the son of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Princess Louise Marguerite of Prussia. He married his first cousin once removed Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife.
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Post by Susan » Tue September 13th, 2011, 12:54 am

September 13 in royal history:

September 13, 1410 – Death of Isabella of Valois, second wife of Richard II, at Château de Blois, France, buried at the Church of the Celestines, Paris

September 13, 1598 – Death of Philip II of Spain at El Escorial; buried at El Escorial

September 13, 1612 – Death of Karin Månsdotter, wife of Eric XIV of Sweden, in Finland; buried at the Cathedral of Turku, Finland

September 13, 1940 - German bombs fall on Buckingham Palace while George VI is in residence
This is when the late Queen Mother said, "Now we can look the East End in the face."
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Post by Susan » Tue September 13th, 2011, 11:01 pm

September 14 in royal history:

September 14, 1336 - Death of John of Eltham, Duke of Cornwall, son of Edward II, at Perth, Scotland, buried in Westminster Abbey

September 14, 1435 - Death of John, Duke of Bedford, son of Henry IV, at Joyeux Repos, Rouen, Normandy, buried at Rouen Cathedral, Rouen

September 14, 1495 - Death of Elizabeth of York, daughter of Henry VII, at Eltham Palace, Kent, buried at Westminster Abbey

September 14, 1667 - Birth of Edgar, Duke of Cambridge, son of James II, at St. James Palace, London, England

September 14, 1928 - Birth of The Honorable Angus Ogilvy, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent

September 14, 1982 - Death of Princess Grace of Monaco at the Princess Grace Hospital in Monte Carlo, Monaco; buried at Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Monaco
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Post by Susan » Wed September 14th, 2011, 11:56 pm

September 15 in royal history:

September 15, 1666 – Birth of Sophia Dorothea of Celle, wife of George, Duke of Brunwick-Lüneburg (later George I), at Celle Castle, Germany
George divorced Sophia Dorothea and imprisoned her in a castle in Germany for the remainder of her life

September 15, 1864 – Birth of Prince Sigismund of Prussia, grandson of Queen Victoria, at Neues Palais in Potsdam, Germany
Prince Sigismund was the son of Victoria, Prince Royal and Kaiser Frederick III of Germany. He died at age two from meningitis.

September 15, 1904 – Birth of Umberto II of Italy

September 15, 1972 – Birth of Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, wife of Felipe, Prince of Asturias

September 15, 1973 - Death of Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden at Helsingborg Hospital, Helsingborg, Sweden; buried at the royal burial grounds in Haga

September 15, 1973 - Birth of Daniel Westling, husband of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden

September 15, 1984 - Birth of Prince Harry at St. Mary's Hospital, London
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Post by Susan » Thu September 15th, 2011, 10:53 pm

September 16 in royal history:

September 16, 1380 – Death of Charles V of France (the Wise) at Beauté-sur-Marne, France; buried at St. Denis Basilica

September 16, 1386 - Birth of Henry V at Monmouth Castle, Wales

September 16, 1583 –Death of Catherine Jagiellon, wife of Johan III of Sweden, at Stockholm; buried at Uppsala Cathedral

September 16, 1701 – Death of James II in exile at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris; buried at the at the Chapel of Saint Edmund in the Church of the English Benedictines in the Rue St. Jacques in Paris; his tomb and remains were destroyed during the French Revolution

September 16, 1764 - Death of Franz Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

September 16, 1824 - Death of Louis XVIII of France at Paris, France; buried at the Basilica of St. Denis

September 16, 1837 – Birth of Pedro V of Portugal
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Post by Susan » Fri September 16th, 2011, 10:27 pm

September 17 in royal history:

September 17, 1665 – Death of Philip IV of Spain in Madrid; buried at El Escorial

September 17, 1688 – Birth of Maria Luisa of Savoy, first wife of Philip V of Spain

September 17, 1968 - Birth of Marie-Chantal Claire Miller, wife of Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece

September 17, 2004 – Birth of Prince Odysseas Kimon of Greece, son of Crown Prince Pavlos
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Post by Susan » Sun September 18th, 2011, 12:21 am

September 18 in royal history:

September 18, 1180 – Death of Louis VII of France

September 18, 1786 – Birth of Christian VIII of Denmark

September 18, 1872 – Death of Charles XV of Sweden/Carl IV of Norway

September 18, 1923 – Birth of Anne of Bourbon-Parma, wife of King Michael I of Romania

September 18, 1964 - Wedding of Constantine II of Greece and Anne-Marie of Denmark
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