All About Royal Families

On 10 March 1863, a Royal Wedding took place at the St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. Then Prince Albert Edward (who later became King Edward VII) married to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. What preceded Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, were already concerned with finding a bride for their son and heir, Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales. They enlisted the aid of their daughter, Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia, in seeking a suitable candidate. Alexandra was not their first choice because the Danes were at loggerheads with the Prussians over the Schleswig-Holstein Question, and most of the British royal family's relations were German.  Eventually, after rejecting other possibilities, they settled on her as "the only one to be chosen" On 24 September 1861, Crown Princess Victoria introduced her brother Albert Edward to Alexandra at Speyer. Almost a year later on 9 September 1862 (after his affair with Nellie Clifden and the death of his father...

On 2 February 2002 a real royal wedding took place at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. How did they meet each other? Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, eldest son and heir of Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus, met Argentine-born Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti at the Seville Fair in April 1999. Two weeks later, they met again in New York, where Máxima was working as a banker for Kleinwort Benson. She did not meet his parents, Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus, for some time. The proposal As speed skating is one of the most popular sports, Willem-Alexander proposed to Máxima on the ice on skates. A week earlier, Willem-Alexander already told his mother and Prime Minister Kok that he would propose to Máxima soon. Keeping it secret? The intention was that the intended marriage remained a secret, so as not to get in the way of Willem-Alexander's brother Constantijn and Laurentien Brinkhorst, who would marry in May. Ultimately, it was too diff...

Philip the Handsome was born on July 22nd. 1478 in Bruges (Belgium). Family His parents were Mary, Duchess of Burgundy and Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. Philip the Handsome was named after his great-grandfather, through his mother, Philip the Good. Love & Marriage After the death of his mother, Mary, Philip inherited her Burgundian possessions under the guardianship of his father. In 1493, Frederick III, Holy Roman Empire died and Philip's father Maximilian became the new emperor. In 1494 Maximilian signed the Treaty of Senlis and Philip took over the rule of the Burgundian lands. However the real power was in the hands of a council of Burgundian nobles. On October 20th. 1496, Philip the Handsome married Joanna, a daughter of King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile in Lier, Belgium. Philip's sister Margaret married John, Prince of Asturias (the brother of Joanna). Philip the Handsome and Joanna...