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August 1, 1402 – Death of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, son of King Edward III of England, at Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England; buried at the Church of the Mendicant Friars in Kings Langley, England
As a son of King Edward III, Edmund participated in many military campaigns in France with his brothers. Edmund’s nephew succeeded his grandfather as King Richard II of England. At Richard’s coronation, Edmund carried the Sovereign’s Sceptre with Dove, also called the Rod of Equity and Mercy. In 1381, Edmund served as chief commissioner in his nephew’s marriage negotiations to marry Anne of Bohemia. In 1399, Edmund was acting as regent while his nephew King Richard II was in Ireland. Henry of Bolingbroke (King Henry IV), another nephew, the son of Edmund’s brother John of Gaunt, was planning to depose his cousin Richard. Edmund was prepared to oppose Henry but instead decided to make peace with him. Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, age 61, died on August 1, 1402, at his birthplace and was buried with his first wife at the Church of the Dominicans at Kings Langley, England. Edmund’s tomb was moved to the Church of All Saints in Kings Langley in 1575, and can still be seen there.
Unofficial Royalty: Edmund of Langley, Duke of York
August 1, 1691 – Death of Marie de Hautefort, favorite of King Louis XIII of France
Marie de Hautefort was a close confidante and favorite of King Louis XIII of France. She was also a close friend and prominent member of the household of his wife Queen Anne, the former Anne of Austria. It was through her grandmother’s position as a lady-in-waiting to Louis XIII’s mother and wife that Marie first met King Louis XIII. Marie had an on-again, off-again relationship with Louis XIII and his wife Anne, shortly before and then after the death of Louis XIII. She left the French court permanently in 1644 and married Charles de Schomberg, Duke d’Halluin, a military leader. After her husband’s death, Marie then returned permanently to Paris and resumed contact with the Dowager Queen Anne. The two continued to correspond until Queen Anne’s death in 1666.
Unofficial Royalty: Marie de Hautefort, favorite of King Louis XIII of France
August 1, 1714 – Death of Queen Anne of Great Britain at Kensington Palace in London, England; buried at Westminster Abbey in London, England
Queen Anne suffered a stroke on July 30, 1714. She died at Kensington Palace on August 1, 1714, at the age of 49 after suffering another stroke. Her remains were buried at Westminster Abbey in a vault under the monument to George Monck, Duke of Albemarle in the Henry VII Chapel. Charles II, William III, Anne’s sister Mary II, and Anne’s husband George of Denmark were also buried in this vault. Anne had become so obese that her coffin was much larger than the other coffins in the vault. Electress Sophia of Hanover, the heir to the throne according to the Act of Settlement, had died on June 8, 1714, just six weeks before the death of Queen Anne, and so Sophia’s son became King George I and started the Hanover dynasty.
Unofficial Royalty: Queen Anne of Great Britain
August 1, 1817 – Birth of Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe in Bückeburg, Principality of Schaumberg-Lippe, now in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany
Full name: Adolf Georg
Adolf married his maternal first cousin Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont. The couple had eight children including Adolf’s successor Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe and Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe who married Princess Viktoria of Prussia, daughter of Friedrich III, German Emperor and Victoria, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria. On November 21, 1860, upon the death of his father Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Schaumberg-Lippe, Adolf became the reigning Prince of Schaumberg-Lippe.
Unofficial Royalty: Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
August 1, 1858 – Death of Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont, wife of Georg II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, in Pyrmont, Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont, now in Lower Saxony, Germany
Emma married Georg II, Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont. Emma survived her husband by thirteen years and was buried with her husband in the Princely Mausoleum at Schloss Rhoden in Rhoden, Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont, now in the German state of Hesse. Emma was the grandmother of Princess Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont who became Queen of the Netherlands when she married King Willem III of the Netherlands. Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont was born the day after her grandmother died and was named in her honor.
Unofficial Royalty: Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont
August 1, 1893 – Birth of King Alexander I of Greece at the Tatoi Palace near Athens, Greece
Alexander was the second of the three sons of King Constantine I of Greece and Princess Sophie of Prussia, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. All three sons were Kings of Greece. Alexander was king for only three years. On October 25, 1920, King Alexander died after contracting septicemia from a monkey bite several weeks earlier.
Unofficial Royalty: King Alexander I of Greece
August 1, 1924 – Birth of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, then in the Sultanate of Nejd, now in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz was proclaimed the sixth King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on August 1, 2005, upon the death of his half-brother King Fahd bin Abdulaziz. Throughout his life, King Abdullah had a love of the desert and a love of horsemanship. He was a breeder of pure Arabian horses and the founder of the equestrian club in Riyadh. Another lifelong passion was reading which he considered very important. He established two libraries, the King Abdulaziz Library in Riyadh, and one in Casablanca, Morocco. King Abdullah died on January 23, 2015, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at the age of 90, three weeks after being hospitalized for pneumonia. He was succeeded by his 79-year-old half-brother Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the current King of Saudi Arabia.
Unofficial Royalty: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
August 1, 2005 – Death of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; buried at the Al-Oud Cemetery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Upon the death of his half-brother King Khalid on June 13, 1982, Fahd became King of Saudi Arabia. In 1986, King Fahd adopted the title Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques replacing His Majesty, to signify an Islamic rather than a secular authority. In 1990, Iraqi forces under Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, placing the Iraqi army on the Saudi-Kuwaiti border. King Fahd agreed to host American-led coalition troops in Saudi Arabia and later allowed American troops to be based there. This decision brought him considerable criticism and opposition from many Saudis and his full brothers, the Sudairi Seven, who objected to the presence of foreign troops on Saudi soil. Many foreign dignitaries attended King Fahd’s funeral on August 2, 2005, including American Vice President Dick Cheney, French President Jacques Chirac, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Prince Charles of the United Kingdom, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Unofficial Royalty: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
August 1, 2016 – Death of Anne of Bourbon-Parma, Queen of Romania, wife of former King Michael of Romania, at a hospital in Morges, Switzerland; buried at the Curtea de Argeș Cathedral in Curtea de Argeș, Romania
Anne was the wife of King Michael I of Romania, whom she married after he abdicated the throne. She was the daughter of Prince René of Bourbon-Parma and Princess Margrethe of Denmark. On her father’s side, she was the niece of Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (husband of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg) and Empress Zita of Austria (wife of Karl, the last Emperor of Austria). On her mother’s side, she was the great-granddaughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and therefore closely related to the royal families of Denmark, Greece, Russia, and the United Kingdom. It was not until 1992 that Anne first set foot on Romanian soil. Her husband was banned from the country, but Anne made several visits on his behalf. In 1997, the ban restrictions were lifted and some of the royal properties were returned to the royal family, including the Elisabeta Palace in Bucharest, which served as their primary residence when in Romania.
Unofficial Royalty: Anne of Bourbon-Parma, Queen of Romania
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