Royal Deaths Announcements 2012

[MAfan]

Donna Emanuela de Dampierre, of the Dukes of San Lorenzo, first wife of Infante Jaime of Spain, Duke of Segovia, died earlier today, 3 May 2012, in Rome. She was 98.

Luis Alfonso de Bourbon and Family (Duke and Duchess of Anjou) 2: November 2008-

Original source:
Fallece Emmanuella Dampierre, abuela de Luis Alfonso de Borbón | Noticias hola.com

[Meraude]

Count Carl Johan Bernadotte af Wisborg, the uncle of king Carl Gustaf of Sweden died on May 5th, 2012. He was born in 1916. http://www.kungahuset.se/pressrum/pr...148c31497.html

[LadyFinn]

Press release from the royal court today:
Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, the fifth and youngest child of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and Princess Margaret of Connaught, the uncle of King Carl Gustaf and Queen Margrethe, has died yesterday at age 95.
Greve Carl Johan Bernadotte af Wisborg har avlidit - Sveriges Kungahus

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[LadyFinn]

A statement from the king and the queen at the court website:
Greve Carl Johan Bernadotte af Wisborg har avlidit - Sveriges Kungahus
Google translation

[Biri]

Delia Fürstin zu Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Wallerstein, née Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, died on 5 May.

She was born at Stuttgart in 1919, daughter of Markwart Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1889-1975) and his second wife, Olga-Maria Böhl de Liagre (1889-1973). In 1942 she married Carl Friedrich Fürst zu Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Wallerstein (1917-1991). She is survived by their daughter Ernestine (b.1943), two sons Moritz (b.1946) and Kraft (b.1951), five grandsons and eight great-grandchildren.

Source:http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/news/2012_2.html

[Biri]

Maharaja Ranjitsinhrao Gaekwad, Sena Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur, Maharaja of Baroda, died from renal failure at a private hospital in Baroda, on 9 May 2012, a day before his 74th birthday.

He was born at Ootacamund as the second son of Major-General H.H. Shrimant Maharaja Sir Pratapsinhrao Gaekwad, Sena Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur, Maharaja of Baroda by his first wife, H.H. Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Maharani Shantadevi Sahib Gaekwad.
Succeeded on the death of his elder brother, Maharaja Fatehsinhrao Gaekwad, as Head of the Royal House of Baroda, 1st September 1988.He married on December 1964, H.H. Maharani Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Shubhanginidevi Raje Sahib Gaekwad, née Arunadevi Jadhav daughter of Sardar Deorao Krishnarao Jadhav, of Gwalior. having had issue, one son and two daughters:
Alaukikadevi Raje Gaekwad b. 1st November 1965. (married, two sons)
Anjanadevi Raje Gaekwad b. 2nd June 1968. (married twice, two sons by second marriage)
Samarjitsinhrao Gaekwad, Sena Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur, Maharaja of Baroda. b. at Baroda, 25th April 1967. (married,one daughter)

Sources: baroda7
Netty's Royalty Page Genealogical News 2012

[Biri]

Prince Tomohito of Japan has died today from a multiple organ failure in Tokio hospital.

He was born on 5 January 1946 as second of five children and oldest son of Prince Mikasa (b.1915, uncle of the current Emperor Akihito) & his wife Hisako, nee Tottori (b.1923). On 7 November 1980 he married Nobuko Aso (b.9 April 1955) third daughter of the late Mr. Takakichi Aso, chairman of Aso Cement Co., and his wife, Kazuko, the daughter of former Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru; they had two daughters: Akiko (b.20 December 1981) and Yoko (b.25 October 1983).

Apart from his parents, wife and daughters he leaves a brother Katsura (Yoshihito,b.1948), two sisters Yasuko (Mrs. Konoe, b.1944) and Masako (Mrs. Sen, b.1951) three nephews and four nieces, his youngest brother Takamado (Norihito) predeceased him in 2002 (aged 47)Sources: Noblesse & Royautés » Actualité, Wikipedia

[Biri]

Countess Elisabeth of Stolberg-Stolberg died on 29 May, eight days after her 93rd birthday.

She was born as the oldest of seven children of Archduchess Hedwig of Austria (1896-1970; granddaughter of Emperor Franz Josef I and Empress Sissi by their youngest daughter, Valerie) and her husband, Count Bernhard of Stolberg-Stolberg (1881-1952).
Athough she was the oldest one,all her youngest siblings are already dead, except the youngest one, Magdalena (b.1930). She leaves also 15 nieces and 16 nephews with their families. She lost one niece, one nephew and one great-niece.
She didn't set her own family.

Sources: Stolberg
Descendants of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria

[MAfan]

Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, passed away today, aged 77 or 78.

Death of Crown Prince Nayef (1934 - 2012): June 16, 2012

[MAfan]

The Countess was a Benedictine nun (Sister Marie Boniface).

[MAfan]

Originally Posted by Biri

Countess Elisabeth of Stolberg-Stolberg died on 29 May, eight days after her 93rd birthday.

She was born as the oldest of seven children of Archduchess Hedwig of Austria (1896-1970; granddaughter of Emperor Franz Josef I and Empress Sissi by their youngest daughter, Valerie) and her husband, Count Bernhard of Stolberg-Stolberg (1881-1952).
Athough she was the oldest one,all her youngest siblings are already dead, except the youngest one, Magdalena (b.1930). She leaves also 15 nieces and 16 nephews with their families. She lost one niece, one nephew and one great-niece.
She didn't set her own family.

Sources: Stolberg
Descendants of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria

It appears that there was a mistake about the date of death of Sister Marie-Boniface aka Countess Marie Elisabeth; she didn't die on 29 May - as it was firstly reported - but on 9 June 2012 in Vanves (France).

Bénédictines de Sainte Bathilde
http://japp.tt.com/anzeigen/media/20...f/1093730R.pdf

[Biri]

Heinrich IV Fürst Reuss died on 20 June.

[He was born at Ernstbrunn on 26 October 1919, son of Prince Heinrich XXXIX Reuss and of his wife, Antonia Gräfin zu Castell-Castell. Since 1954 he had been married to Princess Marie Luise zu Salm-Horstmar. He is survived by her and their four children and their families.]

Source: Paul Theroff Royal Genealogical Site: Royal News 2012 Section I

[Artemisia]

Prince Mohammed Bin Saud, the son of the late King Saud of Saudi Arabia, has died today (July 8).

Prince Mohammed Bin Saud, Influential Saudi Prince, Dead
Muhammed bin Saud

[Biri]

Countess Carolin Leonore of Stolberg Wernigerode died on 2 January, exactly a week before her husband's 57th birthday.

She was born in Frankfurt on 29 September 1962 as the oldest of three children of Count Elger of Stolberg Wernigerode (b.1935) & his wife Maria Karin, nee Freiin von During (b.1934).
She married in Hamburg civilly on 17 June and religiously a day later Magdy Missiha (b. in Cairo on 9 January; an Egyptian Christian?)
Apart from her parents and spouse she is survived by her sister Nicola (b.1965), brother Alexander, Prince of Stolberg-Rossla (b.1967) and his family - wife Caroline, nee Jansen (b.1968) and children: Juliana (b.2002), Auguste (b.2004), Emilia (2006) and Ludwig (b.2008).

Source: Stolberg
Netty's Royalty Page Genealogical News 2012

[Biri]

A copy from Netty's Royalty Page Royal News July:

Maria Emanuel Margrave von Meissen, head of the Royal House of Saxony, died on 23 July at his house in La Tour de Peilz, Switzerland. He was born in Prufening on 31 January 1926 as the eldest child of Crown Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony (1893-1968) and his wife Princess Elisabeth Helene von Thurn und Taxis (1903-1976). He married civilly in La Tour de Peilz on 22 June 1962, and religiously in Vevey on 31 January 1963 Princess Anastasia von Anhalt (b.1940). The couple didn't have children. Prince Alexander (Alexander de Afif, "Prince von Sachsen-Gesaphe", b.1954), the eldest son of the margrave's sister Princess Maria Anna (who died on 13 March this year) will be the new head of the family.

The remaining siblings are: Maria Josepha (b.1928), Albert (b.1934) and Mathilde (b.1936).


Marquis Takamasa Ikeda died on 21 July.
He was born on 21 October 1927. Eleven days before his 25th birthday he married Princess Yori (Yori no-myia Atsuko Shinno, b.1931) a sister of Akihito, present Emperor of Japan. They didn't have children.

Sources: www.nettyroyal.nl Genealogical News 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsuko_Ikeda

[MAfan]

Originally Posted by Biri

Countess Carolin Leonore of Stolberg Wernigerode died on 2 January, exactly a week before her husband's 57th birthday.

She was born in Frankfurt on 29 September 1962 as the oldest of three children of Count Elger of Stolberg Wernigerode (b.1935) & his wife Maria Karin, nee Freiin von During (b.1934).
She married in Hamburg civilly on 17 June and religiously a day later Magdy Missiha (b. in Cairo on 9 January; an Egyptian Christian?)
Apart from her parents and spouse she is survived by her sister Nicola (b.1965), brother Alexander, Prince of Stolberg-Rossla (b.1967) and his family - wife Caroline, nee Jansen (b.1968) and children: Juliana (b.2002), Auguste (b.2004), Emilia (2006) and Ludwig (b.2008).

Source: Stolberg
Netty's Royalty Page Genealogical News 2012

The death notice of Countess Carolin published by the family on the Lauterbacher Anzeiger doesn't mention her husband. This makes me think that they were no longer married at the time of her death.

Lauterbacher Anzeiger - „Herr, du bist unsre Zuflucht für und für.“ Psalm 90, 1 Es hat Gott dem...
http://www.lauterbacher-anzeiger.de/...35323208_1.pdf

[Biri]

So she also bereaved two children: Carolin Clara and Leonardo.
And her sister Nicola is married to Dr.Rudolph Trabold and they have a son Leopold.

She married her husband in 1994; I forgot to mention the year.
Poor her children!

[Biri]

Princess Valli of Russia nee Knust died in the Old Vicarage, Leigh, Dorset, on 10 July.

She was born in London on 4 April 1930.
She married there on 8 June 1961, as his third wife, Prince Vsevelod of Russia (1914-1973) [son of Prince Ivan of Russia (1886-exuted in Alapaevsk on the night 17/18 July 1918) & his wife, Princess Helene of Serbia (1884-1962)] soon after he divorced his previous wife, Emilia de Gosztonyi (1914-1993; married 1956); his first wife was Lady Mary Lygon (1910-1982, marriage from 1939 to 1956).

Sources: Russia
Descendants of Duke Friedrich of Saxe-Altenburg

[MAfan]

After her morganatic marriage to Prince Vsevelod Ivanovich, she was granted by Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich the title of Princess Romanovsky-Knust with the predicate of Serene Highness.

GENEALOGY OF THE IMPERIAL HOUSE OF RUSSIA

[Biri]

Lalla Amina of Morocco passed away on 16 August.

She was born in on 14 April 1954 in Antsirabe, (Madagascar)as youngest child of King Mohammed V (1909-1961) and only by his third wife, Lalla Bahia (died in 2008)
She married in Dar al-Makhzin, Rabat, on 30 March 1973 Sharif Moulay Idriss al-Ouazzani (1942-1999) by whom she had her only daughter, Lalla Sumaya al-Ouazzani, who married Karim Tazi.
Apart from her daughter with her family, also two of her half-sisters survive her: Lalla Fatima az-Zahra (b.1929) and Lalla Malika (b.1933).

Sources: http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2012...passes-away-3/
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