Royal Deaths Announcements 2016

[Biri]

He had also at least four great-grandchildren:

Prince Mikasa, Emperor Akihito's uncle, turns 100 | The Japan Times

[Biri]

Prince Victor-Otto of Bentheim and Steinfurt died in Munster on 1 November.

He was born in Munster on 24 July 1940, as the penultimate of eleven children of Viktor Adolf Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt (1883-1961; his first wife died in a childbirth of stillborn twin boys) and seventh by his second wife, Princess Rosa Helene of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (1901-1963).
He was unmarried and didn't have children.
He is survived by his siblings: Reinhard (b.1934), Marie-Adelheid (b.1935), Charlotte (b.1936), and Oskar-Arnold (b.1946), as well as by his older half-brother Christian (b.1923), current Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt, and by their families.
He lost two siblings: Ferdinand (1838-2010) & Juliane (1932-2013); his oldest half-brother Alexis (1922-1943) was killed over the Mediterranean Sea during the war.

Sources: Otto-Victor Prinz zu Bentheim und Steinfurt, Traueranzeige, Westfälische Nachrichten, Gedenkkerzen, Kondolenzen, Fotos
Bentheim
Descendants of Duke Wilhelm of Nassau
Otto Viktor, Prinz von Bentheim-Steinfurt, * 1940 | Geneall.net
https://sites.google.com/site/myroya...al-information

Curiosity: from nine living to adulthood descendants of Viktor Adolf Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt only Reinhardt, Marie-Adelaide, Charlotte & Ferdinand have living descendants:
Alexis died in the war young and childless.
Christian has two adopted daughters, who are married and probably have children.
Viktor & Adolf were stillborn (and cost their mother's life).
Juliane was unmarried and childless.
Reinhardt has four living children, including two childless (He had five, including twins; the firstborn who bore his name died as a baby or was stillborn) and three grandchildren.
Marie-Adelheid has three children and five grandchildren (all from the eldest daughter)
Charlotte has two living daughters, both childless (she had three, the two younger were twins; the younger one died in 1992 aged 26, childless).
Ferdinand had two living children (the firstborn died as a four-year-old boy in 1975) and four grandchildren.
Victor-Otto was unmarried and childless.
Oskar Arnold was married but childless.

So many deaths in young age...three of the siblings lost children...so sad.

[Rossina]

HRH prince Turki ibn Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (Turki II) of Saudi Arabia passed a way on November 12,2016. The late prince who was born in 1934 was also member of the Sudairi Seven brothers (the seven sons of the late King Abdulaziz and his wife princess Hassa Al Sudairi).

ٍSource:
http://www.alarabiya.net/ar/saudi-to...%8A%D8%B2.html

[Biri]

Princess Birgitte of Prussia, nee Dallwitz-Wegner committed suicide in November, reportedly due to the depression after the death of her husband.

She was born in Kitzbuhel, Tirol on 17 September 1939 and married morganatically (becoming his second wife) in Bad Soden on 23 June 1982 Prince Michael of Prussia (1940-2014) [son of Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1907-1994) & his wife, Grand Duchess Kira of Russia (1909-1967)]; he was previously married (also morganatically) to Jutta Jorn (b.1943). They divorced the same year he married Birgitte and had two daughters: Michaela (b.1960) [married to Jurges Wessoly (b.1961)and mother of Maximilian (b.2000) & Marie Charlotte (b.2001)] & Nataly (b.1970) [single and childless].
Birgitte and Michael didn't have children together.

Sources: Brigitta von Preußen: Die Trauer war zu groß: Sie hat sich das Leben genommen | BUNTE.de
Prussia
Descendants of German Emperor Wilhelm I

[Rossina]

Prince Salman bin Fawaz bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al- Saud died early Sunday (November 13 2016) , the Saudi Royal Court said in a statement. The late prince is the grandson of the late King Saud Saud bin Abdulaziz Al- Saud.

Source:
[http://www.khaleejtimes.com/region/s...abdulaziz-dies

[Stefan]

Duke Peter of Oldenburg died on 18.11.2016 at the age of 90. He was the second son of Hereditary Grand Duke Nikolaus and his first wife Helene, nee Princess zuu Waldeck and Pyrmont
Royal Travel and Events Blog: † Duke Peter of Oldenburg

[Biri]

An unimaginable tragedy has touched Prince York of Schaumburg-Lippe (b.1960):

His only son, Prince Nicholas-York, born in San Diego on 23 April 1989, died untimely on 4 December (fifteen days before the anniversary of his mother's untimely passing).

So heartbreaking...RIP, young man and consolation to his father, who not only became widowed so early (his wife Susanne, nee Seidensticker died in 1992 aged 31) that's now he lost his only child!
December should be a joyous month for Christians, and for him it will be now the worst of all the year...


Sources: https://sites.google.com/site/myroya...al-information
Schaumburg-Lippe

[carlota]

Originally Posted by Biri

An unimaginable tragedy has touched Prince York of Schaumburg-Lippe (b.1960):

His only son, Prince Nicholas-York, born in San Diego on 23 April 1989, died untimely on 4 December (fifteen days before the anniversary of his mother's untimely passing).

So heartbreaking...RIP, young man and consolation to his father, who not only became widowed so early (his wife Susanne, nee Seidensticker died in 1992 aged 31) that's now he lost his only child!
December should be a joyous month for Christians, and for him it will be now the worst of all the year...


Sources: https://sites.google.com/site/myroya...al-information
Schaumburg-Lippe

indeed horrible news, being his only child and on a date so close to another sad event. life can unfold so unpredictably...

[betina]

Danish media have announced the Death of Prince Dimitri Romanov aged 90

Source: Dimitri Romanoff er død - 90 år | Indland/Fyn | Fyens.dk

[Kavebear]

Regina Kawananakoa, great-granddaughter of Prince David Kawananakoa, died at the age of 69, on December 10, 2016. She was the elder sister of Quentin Kawananakoa.


Dozens turn out to pay respects to Princess Kawananakoa - Honolulu, Hawaii news, sports & weather - KITV Channel 4

[MAfan]

Originally Posted by Biri

Princess Birgitte of Prussia, nee [B]Dallwitz-Wegner committed suicide in November, reportedly due to the depression after the death of her husband.

It seems that the date of her death has been determined to be 14 October 2016.
Prussia

[Biri]

Prince Otar Bagrationi-Muchraneli died untimely last year.

He was born in 1973 as a son of Prince Vladimir Bagrationi-Muchraneli (b.1947) & his wife Kethevan, nee Beridze (b.1947).
Apart from his parents he left his only sister Nino (b.1971) with her husband Lasha Panjakidze (b.1962) and family.

Source: Bagration