Happy happy birthday to the following royals, nobles and friends of royals!
5 – King Juan Carlos of Spain (1938)
5 – Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1921)
5 – Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (1946)
6 – Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, Tsarita Consort of Bulgaria (1935)
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Happy happy birthday to the following royals, nobles and friends of royals!
December
28 – Princess Vittoria Cristina Adelaide Chiara Maria of Savoy (2003)
29 – Princess Kako of Japan (1994)
30 – Paras Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Crown Prince of Nepal of Nepal (1971)
31- Carlos Morales Quintana (1970), husband of Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
 
January
1 – Maria Chiara of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (2005)
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Japan’s Emperor Akihito celebrated his 76th birthday today!

The Emperor’s birthday is a national holiday, which is marked by a public ceremony at the Imperial Palace. Crowds of flag-waving well-wishers gather to see the royals and greet the emperor. It’s a special day for the Japanese people. It is only one of the few days during the year that the public is allowed to enter the inner grounds of the palace.

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The emperor made his traditional speech from the palace balcony. He was …read more

Happy happy birthday to the following royals, nobles and friends of royals!
14 – Princess Olimpia Preslavska of Bulgaria (1995)
16 – Prince Lorenz of Belgium (1955)
17 – James Mountbatten-Windsor, Viscount Severn (2007)
20 – Infanta Elena of Spain, Duchess of Lugo (1963)
20 – Princess Akiko of Mikasa (1981)
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Happy happy birthday to the following royals, nobles and friends of royals!
7 – Princess Bhajara Kittiyabha of Thailand (1978)
7 – Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands (2003)
9- Crown Princess Masako of Japan (1963)
9 – Prince Joachim of Belgium (1991)
12 – Princess Purnika of Nepal (2000)
13 – Prince Nicolas and Prince Aymeric of Belgium (2005)
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Happy happy birthday to the following royals, nobles and friends of royals!
November
30 – Prince Akishino of Japan (1965)
December
1 – Princess Aiko of Japan (2001)
2 – Princess Lea of Belgium (1951)
2 – Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, Crown Prince of Bulgaria (1962)
2 – Prince Mikasa of Japan (1915)
3 – Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway (2005)
3 – Infante Miguel, Duke of Viseu, of Portugal’s royal House of Braganza (1946)
5 – King Rama IX of Thailand (1927)
5 – Prince Konstantin-Assen, Prince of Vidin (Bulgaria) (1967)
6th – Pablo Nolás Urdangarín y Bórbon (2000), son of Infanta Cristina of Spain and Iñaki Urdangarín
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Happy happy birthday to the following royals, nobles and friends of royals!
24 – Isabelle de l’Arbre de Malander of Liechtenstein (1947), wife of Prince Philipp Erasmus of Liechtenstein
25 – Infante Dinis, Duke of Porto (1999), second son of Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza and Isabel de Heredia
26 – Louis Robert Paul Ducruet of Monaco (1992), son of Princess Stephanie and Daniel Ducruet
27 – Princess Désirée of Hohenzollern (1963), second child of Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern and Princess Birgitta of Sweden
28 – Emma Francisca of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven (2006), daughter of Prince Pieter-Christiaan and Princess Anita of Orange-Nassau
28 – Prince …read more

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August 31 – Queen Rania of Jordan
September
3 – Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia
5 – Pierre Rainier Stefano Casiraghi
6 – Prince Hisahito of Japan
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Japanese Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko visited the Netherlands for the greater part of this week. The royal couple attended a ceremony to mark the 400th anniversary of the start of trade relations between Japan and the Netherlands.
 
The commemorative ceremony was held in The Hague. Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko met with Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, as well as Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. The itinerary for the trip also included a visit to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Royal Library.

 
Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako attended a tree-planting ceremony in Yokohama on Sunday, April 19, 2009. It was the first time in 15 months that the princess has been outside Tokyo for an official reason.
The tree planting was held at the Yokohama Animal Forest Park, as part of a national conservation event. Prince Naruhito and Princess Masako each planted a memorial cherry tree.
Afterwards, the royal couple watch guide dogs being trained at the training center of the Japan Guide Dog Association.

I’m so glad to see Princess Masako going about her official duties like this. She especially …read more