Last modified: 28 February 2021 Deaths in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2006. * = New Date Name Age Place January 4 Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Emir of Dubai (UAE) 62 January 8 Prince Georg Wilhelm von Hannover 90 München, Germany January 12 (car crash) Sheikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa […]
Marriages 2014
Last modified: 1 January 2023 Engagements, marriages and divorces in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2014. 4 January Marriage of Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan and Zeina Lubbadeh. She is his third wife. 5 January Marriage of Prince Faysal bin Turki bin Bandar Al Saud of Saudi Arabia and Princess […]
Births 2011
Last modified: 30 June 2018 Births and christenings in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2011. 2 January Birth of Muneerah Madhul, daughter of Crown Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah of Brunei Darussalam and Sarah Salleh at Brunei Darussalam. 8 January Birth of Vincent Frederik Minik Alexander and Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda, son and […]
Royal News 2012
Last modified: 5 August 2012 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2012. January 1st A cheerful Duke of Edinburgh attended the New Year’s Day church service at Sandringham this morning, making his first public appearance after his hearth surgery. Also Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and the Earl and Countess […]
Royal News 2011
Last modified: 1 January 2012 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2011. January 1st In her New Year’s speech, broadcasted on New Year’s Eve, Queen Margrethe warned against letting the financial crisis devolve into a “crisis of values”. She said: “We will find some way out of the financial crisis in […]
Royal News 2010
Last modified: 7 January 2011 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2010. January 1st The Princess Royal has been the busiest member of the British royal family in 2009. She undertook 554 engagements. She is closely followed by the Prince of Wales who undertook 540 engagements, and the Duke of York […]
Royal News 2009
Last modified: 3 January 2010 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2009. January 1st Like every year the five waka poems by Emperor Akihito of Japan and the three waka poems by Empress Michiko of Japan on the occasion of the end of the year were published. Also the New Year […]
Royal News 2008
Last modified: 8 January 2009 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2008. January 1st King Juan Carlos I of Spain celebrated New Year with the Spanish ISAF troops in Herat, Afghanistan, yesterday. He told the troops: “I have instructions from my family to congratulate you and thank you.” He saw the […]
Royal News 2007
Last modified: 6 January 2008 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2007. January 1st Countess Bettina Bernadotte af Wisborg and her husband Philipp Haug had a daughter, Linnea, in Konstanz at 2.30am on December 31. The couple is very happy with their second child and mother and daughter are doing fine. […]
Royal News 2006
Last modified: 2 January 2007 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2006. January 1st Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was moved to the Bronovo Hospital in The Hague. She will rehabilitate there until the moment she can return home. The doctors are very satisfied about the progress the Queen makes with […]