Weddings

Royal weddings speak to the imagination like nothing else. Few other events gather so many reigning and non-reigning royalty in their finest attire. Read all about the engagement, wedding preparations, events leading up to the wedding and wedding ceremonies and festivities of various royal couples.

At present we focus our energy on the upcoming wedding of Prince William of Wales and Miss Catherine Middleton, on 29 April 2011. We are also keeping track of information on the upcoming wedding of Prince Albert II of Monaco to Miss Charlene Wittstock on 1 and 2 July 2011.

Very soon we hope to add informations about the wedding of Swedish Crown Princess Victoria to Daniel Westling, which took place 19 June 2010.

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Today in Royal History

Francis II of France was born on 19 January 1544, 10 years after his parents' wedding. His mother, Catherine de' Medici, had no power at her husband's court, having to defer to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers. Henri II died when Francis was only 15, and Catherine finally had the power she craved as regent. Francis, who was married to Mary Queen of Scots, lived for only a year as king, dying in 1560.

Charlotte of Belgium, daughter of Leopold I (Queen Victoria's maternal uncle), married Maximilian of Austria in 1857; he was offered the Mexican throne in 1864, at which Charlotte became Empress Carlota. By 1867 Maximilian had been executed by revolutionary forces and Carlota was having mental problems. She spent the rest of her life in Europe, dying in Belgium on 19 January 1927.

Princess Margriet of The Netherlands, younger sister of Queen Beatrix, was born on 19 January 1943 in Ottawa, Canada, where her parents had lived since the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands in 1940. In order that she should hold Dutch citizenship only, not Canadian citizenship, the Canadian government declared the maternity ward where she was born to be temporarily extraterritorial.