This Day in History

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Sat August 24th, 2013, 12:28 am

August 24 in royal history:

August 24, 1103 Death of Magnus III of Norway in battle in Ireland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_III_of_Norway

August 24, 1113 Birth of Geoffrey V (the Handsome), Count of Anjou
Geoffrey was the father of Henry II of England.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_of_Anjou

August 24, 1198 Birth of Alexander II of Scotland in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_II_of_Scotland

August 24, 1200 - Wedding of King John and Isabella of Angouleme at Bordeaux, France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_of_Angouleme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_England

August 24, 1507 - Death of Cecily of York, daughter of Edward IV, at Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight, England, buried at Quarr Abbey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecily_of_York

August 24, 1772 Birth of William I of the Netherlands in The Hague
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I_ ... etherlands

August 24, 1865 Birth of Ferdinand I of Romania at Sigmaringen Castle (Germany)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of_Romania

August 24, 1945 Death of Stéphanie of Belgium, wife of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria; buried at Pannonhalma Benedictine Archabbey, Hungary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_S ... of_Belgium

August 24, 1995 - Birth of Lady Amelia Windsor, daughter of George Windsor, Earl of St. Andrews, at Rosie Hospital in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Full name: Amelia Sophia Theodora Mary Margaret
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Amelia_Windsor

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Sun August 25th, 2013, 12:40 am

August 25 in royal history:

August 25, 1270 - Death of Louis IX of France at Tunis (currently in Tunisia); originally buried in Tunis where a Tomb of Saint-Louis can still be seen, his entrails were sealed in an urn and placed in the Basilica of Monreale, Palermo, Italy where they still remain, eventually buried at the Basilica of Saint Denis
Louis was canonized in 1297. St. Louis, Missouri is named after him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IX_of_France

August 25, 1482 Death of Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI, at Château de Dampiere, Anjou, France, buried at St. Maurice's Cathedral, Angers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou

August 25, 1530 - Birth of Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible) of Russia, at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible

August 25, 1699 Death of Christian V of Denmark and Norway in Copenhagen after a hunting accident; buried at Roskilde Cathedral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_V

August 25, 1707 Birth of Louis I of Spain at Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid, Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_I_of_Spain

August 25, 1786 Birth of Ludwig I of Bavaria in Strasbourg (France)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_I_of_Bavaria

August 25, 1845 - Birth of Ludwig II of Bavaria in Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Bavaria (Germany)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II

August 25, 1862 Death of Mathilde of Bavaria, wife of Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, in Darmstadt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_M ... %931862%29

August 25, 1942 - Death of George, Duke of Kent, son of George V and brother of George VI, when a military plane taking him to Iceland, crashed in Scotland, buried at Frogmore, Windsor
George, Duke of Kent is the father of the current Duke of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent and Princess Alexandra of Kent. Michael was 6 weeks old when his father was killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Geo ... ke_of_Kent

August 25, 2001 - Wedding of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby at Oslo Cathedral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haakon_Mag ... _of_Norway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mette-Mari ... _of_Norway

annis · Post by **annis** » Sun August 25th, 2013, 1:18 am

Hard to believe that it's 50 years since Martin Luther King made his momentous "I Have a Dream" speech - where did the time go? However it has now moved into the realms of history, and has been marked by thousands who marched on Washington to commemorate the occasion and remember King's inspirational dream.

I Have a Dream - You Tube clip of Martin Luther King's speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Mon August 26th, 2013, 12:52 am

August 26 in royal history:

August 26, 1551 Death of Margareta Leijonhufvud, second wife of Gustav I of Sweden; buried at Uppsala Cathedral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margareta_Leijonhufvud

August 26, 1819 - Birth of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, husband of Queen Victoria, at Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, Germany
Full name: Francis Augustus Charles Albert Emanuel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Alb ... burg-Gotha

August 26, 1850 Death of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, in exile at Claremont, Surrey, England; buried at the Chapelle Royale in Dreux, France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Philippe_I

August 26, 1944 - Birth of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester at Barnwell Manor, Northamptonshire
Full name: Richard Alexander Walter George
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Ric ... Gloucester

August 26, 1988 - Birth of Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, daughter of Princess Astrid of Belgium, at the University Clinic St. Luc, Woluwe-St-Lambert, Belgium
Full Name: Maria Laura Zita Beatrix Gerhard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_M ... stria-Este

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Tue August 27th, 2013, 12:28 am

August 27 in royal history:

August 27, 1487 Birth of Anna of Brandenburg, first wife of the future Frederick I of Denmark, in Berlin (Germany)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_of_Brandenburg

August 27, 1758 Death of Bárbara of Portugal, wife of Ferdinand VI of Spain, at Palacio Real de Aranjuez; buried at Salesas Reales Church (Santa Barbara) in Madrid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_of_Portugal

August 27, 1968 Death of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent at Kensington Palace, buried at Frogmore, Windsor
Princess Marina was the daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna of Russia. She was the last foreign princess to marry into the British royal family.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/date ... 067773.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_M ... ss_of_Kent

August 27, 1975 - Death of deposed Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; buried at Holy Trinity Church in Addis Ababa
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cg ... 20Selassie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Selassie

August 27, 1979 - Assassination of Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Prince Philip's uncle and a great-grandson of Queen Victoria, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland; buried at Romsey Abbey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Moun ... n_of_Burma
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/date ... 511545.stm

annis · Post by **annis** » Tue August 27th, 2013, 1:05 am

Posted by Susan

August 27, 1979 - Assassination of Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Prince Philip's uncle and a great-grandson of Queen Victoria, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland; buried at Romsey Abbey

And a respectful nod to Prince Charles' favourite great-uncle and mentor in the naming of latest royal arrival, Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge - also a nod there to Her Maj's beloved father, Bertie, whose regnal name was King George VI.

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Tue August 27th, 2013, 12:08 pm

[quote=""annis""]
And a respectful nod to Prince Charles' favourite great-uncle and mentor in the naming of latest royal arrival, Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge - also a nod there to Her Maj's beloved father, Bertie, whose regnal name was King George VI.[/quote]

Indeed, you could be correct. Prince William's full name is William Arthur Philip Louis, so there is another nod to Lord Mountbatten. Prince Charles named his first son William in honor of his first cousin once removed Prince William of Gloucester who also died tragically during the last week of August when the plane he was flying in an air show crashed. During the last week of August, there have been five tragic deaths in the recent British Royal Family. The other day I wrote an article about the people who died for the royalty website I help administer.
Unofficial Royalty: Tragedy in the British Royal Family at the end of August

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Wed August 28th, 2013, 12:21 am

August 28 in royal history:

August 28, 933 Birth of Richard I, Duke of Normandy in Fécamp Normandy (France)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_Normandy

August 28, 1027 Death of Richard II, Duke of Normandy in Normandy (France)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_of_Normandy

August 28, 1481 Death of Afonso V of Portugal in Lisbon; buried at the Batalha Monastery in Leiria, Portugal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_V_of_Portugal

August 28, 1667 Birth of Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, first wife of Frederick IV of Denmark, in Güstrow (Germany)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_of_ ... C3%BCstrow

August 28, 1789 Birth of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, wife of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden, at the Palace of Versailles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9ph ... eauharnais

August 28, 1853 Birth of Franz I of Liechtenstein in Vaduz, Liechtenstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_I_of_Liechtenstein

August 28, 1943 Death of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria at Sofia, Bulgaria; originally buried at Rila Monastery, re-buried in the courtyard of the Vrana Palace during the Communist regime, at a later date the coffin was removed to an unknown location
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_III_of_Bulgaria

August 28, 1972 - Death of Prince William of Gloucester in an airplane accident at an air show at Halfpenny Green, near Wolverhampton, buried at Frogmore, Windsor
Prince William was a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and brother of the current Duke of Gloucester. William would have been Duke of Gloucester had he lived.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/date ... 536275.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Wil ... Gloucester

August 28, 1996 - Divorce of the Prince and Princess of Wales
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9608/28/royal.divorce/decree/

August 28, 1999 - Birth of Prince Nikolai of Denmark, son of Prince Joachim, at the Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen
Full name: Nikolai William Alexander Frederik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Nikolai_of_Denmark

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Thu August 29th, 2013, 1:55 am

August 29 in royal history:

August 29, 1189 Wedding of King John and Isabel of Gloucester, at Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire
This marriage was annulled in 1199.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_of_Gloucester

August 29, 1790 Birth of Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden, in Karlsruhe (Germany)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold,_G ... e_of_Baden

August 29, 1815 - Wedding of Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, son of George III, and Frederica of Mecklenberg-Strelitz, at Carlton House, London
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Aug ... of_Hanover
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederica_ ... g-Strelitz

August 29, 1935 Death of Astrid of Sweden, wife of Leopold III of Belgium, in a car accident near their villa at Küssnacht am Rigi, Schwyz, Switzerland; buried at the Church of Our Lady in Laeken, Belgium
Tragically, Queen Astrid and her unborn child died in a car accident when the car, driven by her husband, plunged down a ravine. Astrid was the mother of the last two Belgian king, Baudouin and Albert II, and the late Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte of Luxembourg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_of_Sweden

August 29, 1966 Death of Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, wife of Manuel II of Portugal, at Münchhöf, Baden, Germany
Manuel II was deposed in 1910 and died in 1932. In 1939, Augusta Victoria married Swedish Count Robert Douglas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_Vi ... igmaringen

August 29, 1968 - Wedding of Harald V of Norway and Sonja Haraldsen at the Olso Cathedral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Haraldsen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_V

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Thu August 29th, 2013, 11:12 pm

August 30, 1483 Death of Louis XI of France at Plessis-lez-Tours, France; buried at Notre-Dame de Cléry Basilica, Orléans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XI

August 30, 1813 Birth of Mathilde of Bavaria, wife of Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, in Augsburg (Germany)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_M ... %931862%29

August 30, 1831 Death of Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, wife of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in Paris; buried at the Ducal Family Mausoleum, Glockenburg Cemetery, Coburg (Germnay)
Louise was the mother of Prince Albert, Queen Victorias husband. Six years after marrying Ernest, the marriage was dissolved. Louise died five years later of cancer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_of_ ... -Altenburg

August 30, 1946 - Birth of Anne-Marie of Denmark, daughter of Frederick IX of Denmark, wife of Constantine II of Greece, at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen
Full name: Anne-Marie Dagmar Ingrid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Marie_of_Greece