Happy Birthday to Princess Augusta, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

 Princess Augusta, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

(July 30 1737 - March 31 1813)

Posthumous Wedding Anniversary of the Duke and Duchess of Fife

 Today is the 133rd anniversary of the wedding of Her Royal Highness Louise, Princess Royal and His Grace Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife.

Happy Posthumous to Prince Oskar of Prussia

His Imperial and Royal Highness Prince Oskar Karl Gustav Adolf of Prussia

(July 27, 1888 -- January 27, 1958)

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Happy Posthumous Birthday to Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia

 Today is the 162nd birthday of Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn.

(July 25, 1860)

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Happy Posthumous Birthday to Princess Frederica, Duchess of York

 

Happy Posthumous Birthday to Prince Louis I of Monaco

(July 25, 1642)

Today is the 180th birthday of Prince Louis I of Monaco.

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Happy Posthumous Birthday to Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Cambridge

 

(July 25, 1797 - April 6 1889)

Today is the 225th birthday of Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge.

Scott, Susan. “Unofficial Royalty.” Unofficial Royalty, 24 July 2022, www.unofficialroyalty.com/. 

Happy Posthumous Birthday to Queen Elisabeth of Belgium

                                                        Queen Elisabeth of Belgium

(July 25, 1876 -- November 23, 1965)

Happy 20th Birthday to Prince Felix of Denmark

His Highness Prince Felix of Denmark

(6/22/2002)

Prince Felix is the second child of Prince Joachim, the second son of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II and His Royal Highness Prince Henrik of Denmark, and Alexandra Countess of Frederiksborg.

National Day and & enthroment of His Majesty King Philippe of Belgium

 July 21st 2022 marks the 101st anniversary of the founding of the Kingdom of Belgium when King Leopold I was enthroned as the first King of the Belgians. Also on this day in 2013, Leopold's 3rd great-grandson became the 7th King of the Belgians by the name of King Philippe and one of the most recent monarchs.

More information can be found here: https://www.monarchie.be/en

Happy 77th Birthday to His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia

 Happy Birthday to the Crown Prince of Serbia and Yugoslavia!

Александар II Карађорђевић or Aleksander II Karađorđević is heir apparent to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes which is better known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia thus head of the Karađorđević dynasty.

                                                           (6.17.1945)

Crown Prince Alexander was born in the Claridge’s Hotel during his parent's stay which was designated as Yugoslav territory by the British Government on the orders of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

He is the 3rd great-grandson of Đorđe Petrović, known as Karađorđe, Supreme Leader of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes via his father His Majesty King Peter II of Yugoslavia or Његово Величанство Краљ Петар II од Југославије. 

Through his mother Queen Alexandra, he is a grandson of King Alexander of the Hellenes making her the fifth great-granddaughter of King Frederick V of Denmark and Norway. She is also the fifth great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.

Via his paternal grandmother Queen Marija Karađorđević of Yugoslavia, he is the 8th great-grandson of George I, King of Great Britain but the 3rd great-grandson of Queen Victoria.

1. Kingdom of Serbia Association. “Royal Dynasty of Serbia.” The Royal Family of Serbia - From the people, for the people, Kingdom of Serbia Association, 27 5 1998, https://royalfamily.org/. Accessed 5 July 2022.

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Happy 75th Birthday to the Duchess of Cornwall

Happy 75th Birthday to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall

A shared website with the Prince of Wales: https://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/

The 105th anniversary of the Founding of the House of Windsor

 July 17, 1917

House of Windsor

On this day, King George V changed the name of the Royal Family from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor to assess anti-German sentiment and to restore trust in the monarchy.