Happy happy birthday to the following royals, nobles and friends of royals!
18 – Princess Claire of Belgium (1974)
18 – Marie Theresa von Lattorf Liechtenstein (2004)
19 – Princess Birgitta of Sweden and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, sister of King Carl Gustaf (1937)
19 – Princess Kalina of Bulgaria (1972)
19 – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (1943)
20 – Princess Mathilde of Belgium (1973)
20 – Tassilo of Bulgaria (2002)
20 – Sophie, Countess of Wessex (1965)
21 – Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway (2004)
23 – Caroline of Monaco, Princess of Hanover (1957)
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Happy happy birthday to the following royals, nobles and friends of royals!
11 – Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduke and Prince of Austria (1961)
12 – Gustav Frederik Philip Richard, Hereditary Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1969)
13 – Princess Maria Louise of Bulgaria (1933)
13 – Elisabeth-Anne de Massy of Monaco (1947)
15 – Marie-Christine, Princess Michael of Kent (1945)
15 – Iñaki Urdangarin, Duke of Palma de Mallorca (1968)
15 – Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1982) and Prince Philip of Yugoslavia (1982)
15 – Archduke Philipp of Austria (2007)
17 – Farah of Iran (2004)
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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
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Happy happy birthday to the following royals, nobles and friends of royals!
16 – Princess Sana of Jordan (1960)
19- Lady Davina Lewis (1977)
20 – Princess Theodora of Liechtenstein (2004)
20 – Prince Umberto of Bulgaria (1999)
20 – Princess Sofia of Bulgaria (1999)
20 – Crown Prince Otto von Habsburg (1912)
20 – Alexandra Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1970)
21 – Maria Teresa Sartorius y de Liechtenstein (1992)
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