#marie jose of belgium

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Marie José of Belgium, Queen of Italy. Photographed by Luigi Vaghi, 1931.

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OTMAA Contemporaries: Marie-Jose and Leopold of Belgium

Leopold (1901) and Marie-Jose (1906) were the eldest and youngest children of Queen Elisabeth (center) and King Albert (tallest man on the right). There was another brother, Charles, born in 1903. They did not know OTMAA personally, but in her memoirs Marie-Jose wrote that her mother was always upset by the Romanov tragedy, and recalled a time after WWI when Queen Elisabeth confronted King George V about not doing more to save Nicholas II and his family. Elisabeth also visited Empress Maria Feodorovna in Denmark, and Maria Feodorovna commented she didn't like the new fashion of hats that covered half of someone's face, which Elisabeth was wearing at the time and is wearing in this photo as well!

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The Princess of Piedmont. Photographed by Luigi Vaghi, 1931.

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Queen Elisabeth of Belgium and her daughter Princess Marie-Jose

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The Roof by Hans Georg Fischer Via Flickr: City Pavilion - Het Stadshal van Gent - Designed by the architects Robbrecht & Daem / Marie-José Van Hee 1996-2012 (actually I don't know why it took so long...)

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Princess Marie Jose of Belgium. Vintage British Postcard.

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Duchess of Aosta’s Musy Pearl Tiara | Queen Margherita’s Pearl Bracelet Bandeau | Queen Elisabeth of Belgium’s Diamond Bandeau | Pearl and Diamond Ivy Wreath Tiara | Queen Marie Jose’s Sapphire Necklace | Princess de Réthy’s Cartier Flower Tiara

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"Alleged Italian Plotters Nabbed," Border Cities Star. January 2, 1930. Page 8. ---- EXPLOSIVES FOUND IN HOME OF ONE ---- Held as Conspirators In Plan to Assassinate Belgian Royalty ---- PARIS. Jan. 2. - Three Italians were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of plotting against Fascists and in it he home of one of them police found a quantity of high explosives, a number of detonators and other materials for making bombs. The arrests and raid were made by agents of the Surete General, the French Scotland Yard, which bends its efforts particularly toward the protection of the state and of prominent personages. The police alleged that those arrested had maintained relations with Canthio Herneri. who was arrested about a week ago in Brussels, Belgium, and who confessed to a dual plot against the lives of the Belgian royal family as they journeyed to Italy for the wedding of Princess Marie Jose on Jan. 8.

The Havas News agency described the prisoners an Italian newspapermen. Their names were Aberto Cianca. Giuseppe Sarbell and AIberto Farchiani. It was at the home of Cianca that the explosives were found.

The Havas agency indicated that the three were perhaps plotting against the Italian naval delegation which will pass through France en route to the London conference next month. The exact nature of the plot had not been disclosed.

The police of Belgium, France and Italy have redoubled their vigilance in recent weeks because of the evidence that anti-Fascists and Anarchists had planned various forms of violence in connection with, the marriage of the crown prince of Italy.

Berneri disclosed that an attempt had been planned on the lives of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth in Brussels and if that were unsuccessful another attempt would be made on the royal train soon after it entered Italy.

Because of these disclosures the frontiers have been rigidly watched and preparations made for the stationing of additional armed guards at all railway stations through which the Belgian royalty will pass.

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Events 5.17

1395 – Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army. 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason. 1527 – Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Florida with 600 men – by 1536 only four survive. 1536 – George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason. 1536 – Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage is annulled. 1590 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland. 1642 – Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve founds the Ville Marie de Montréal. 1648 – Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria in the Battle of Zusmarshausen. 1673 – Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River. 1756 – Seven Years' War formally begins when Great Britain declares war on France 1760 – French forces besieging Quebec retreat after the Royal Navy arrives to relieve the British garrison. 1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement. 1805 – Muhammad Ali becomes Wāli of Egypt. 1809 – Emperor Napoleon I orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire. 1814 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian. 1814 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and Crown Prince Christian Frederick of Denmark is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly. 1859 – Members of the Melbourne Football Club codified the first rules of Australian rules football. 1863 – Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language. 1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris. 1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby with the jockey Oliver Lewis (2:37.75). 1900 – The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister. 1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer. 1914 – The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty. 1915 – The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls. 1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway. 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The Largo Caballero government resigns in the wake of the Barcelona May Days, leading Juan Negrín to form a government, without the anarcho-syndicalist CNT, in its stead. 1939 – The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City. 1940 – World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium. 1943 – World War II: Dambuster Raids commence by No. 617 Squadron RAF. 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools. 1967 – Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt. 1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure. 1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate. 1974 – The Troubles: Thirty-three civilians are killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonates four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. 1974 – Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall. 1977 – Nolan Bushnell opened the first ShowBiz Pizza Place (later renamed Chuck E. Cheese) in San Jose, California. 1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations. 1980 – On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in Chuschi (a town in Ayacucho), starting the Internal conflict in Peru. 1983 – The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds [1.9 kt]), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request. 1983 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. 1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend", sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture. 1987 – Iran–Iraq War: An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew. 1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases. 1992 – Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, hundreds of injuries, many disappearances, and more than 3,500 arrests. 1994 – Malawi holds its first multi-party elections. 1995 – Shawn Nelson steals an M60 tank from the California Army National Guard Armory in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage. 1997 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2000 – Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen 2004 – The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts. 2006 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef. 2007 – Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953. 2014 – A military plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people.

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"The feast of St. Joseph Husband of Mary has been celebrated throughout the church since the tenth century and has been honored as the Patron of the Universal Church since 1870. St. Joseph is the patron of workers, carpenters, Austria, Belgium, Bohemia, Canada, Mexico, Peru, and southern Vietnam." - Catholic News Agency. Retrieved from https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-joseph-182 Day 69 of 365. Today is the first day of the Novena Mass to Saint Joseph, Husband of Mary. Today we are reminded in the Homily of Fr. Jun Limbaga that the bad things we do always find its way back to us. Same as the good we do, it always comes back to us one way or the other. May we ponder on how Joseph became the protector of Jesus. May we also protect what is right and just. To protect what is good. #iamCatholic #IamSFC #SaintJosephtheWorkerParish #dioceseofdumaguete #rcantoniotravels #rcantoniothoughts #rcadventures #commissiononsocialcommunications #NovenatoSaintJoseph (at Saint Joseph the Worker Parish-San Jose, Negros Oriental) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpnBj-fJwpVYccHilUsQGZ1s7-k7VMWaABwiIs0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Princess Marie Jose of Belgium as a baby.

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To the children of the palace as well as of the cottage the war has brought many changes, to none perhaps more than to the little Princess Marie Jose, the only daughter of the King and Queen of the Belgians. Until the fateful August of 1914, the little Princess, whose eighth birthday fell on the fourth of that month – the day when war was declared between England and Germany – had led the quiet but happy life that is the usual lot of royal children in the twentieth century. Her first lessons were learned literally at her mother's knee, for Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, highly educated and fully awake to her duties as mother as well as queen, took a personal share in her children's education.

When the war came the Queen, bravely resolved to remain by her soldier husband's side, sent her children – the twelve-year-old heir to the throne, with his younger brother, Prince Charles, and their sister, the baby of the family – to England. Before long the earnest desire of the older boy, to return and fight for his country by his father's side, was granted. But the younger brother and the little Princess remained in exile; Prince Charles as as a schoolboy at Eton, where he is the housemate of Prince Henry, younger brother of the Prince of Wales; the Princess Marie Jose as the guest of Lord Curzon, of Kedleston, at his beautiful country seat, with his three daughters, Americans on their mother's side, as her friends and companions.

Later the Princess became a pupil at a convent school on the outskirts of London, and there she had the novel experience of being just a little schoolgirl, not a royal Princess. For by the Queen of Belgium's express wish no distinction was made between the Princess and her companions. She shared their simple daily life, their lessons and games and meals, with girls from quiet English homes. And she is now a student at a famous girls' school in Italy, where the same democratic practice prevails.

The Ladies Home Journal, 1917

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January 08

[871] Battle of Ashdown: Ethelred I of Wessex and his brother Alfred the Great beat invading Danish army.

[1297] Monaco gains its independence.

[1310] The Great Frost: In London the Thames River froze so thickly bonfires were lit on it.

[1499] King Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown.

[1806] Lewis and Clark find the skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon.

[1811] US Vice President John C. Calhoun (28) weds Floride Bonneau (19).

[1835] President Andrew Jackson achieves his goal of entirely paying off the United States' national debt. It was the only time in U.S. history that the national debt stood at zero, and it precipitated one of the worst financial crises in American history.

[1930] Belgium Princess Marie-Jose weds Italy's Crown Prince Umberto.

[1948] Queen Wilhelmina of Netherlands signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason.

[1959] A triumphant Fidel Castro enters Havana, having deposed the American-backed regime of General Fulgencio Batista.

[1961] The French vote for Algerian independence from French rule in the wake of seven years of guerrilla war.

[1963] At the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, is exhibited for the first time in America.

[1978] Harvey Milk becomes the 1st openly gay person elected to public office in California.

[1998] Comedian and actress Roseanne Barr files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas.

[2001] The identities of 2 boys who murdered a toddler in 1993 will be kept secret, the High Court rules.

[2018] Puerto Rican singer and actor Ricky Martin (46) reveals he has wed Syrian-Swedish painter Jwan Yosef (33).

[2020] Duke and Duchess of Sussex announce they are stepping back as "senior" royals, will work towards becoming financially independent.

[2021] Twitter bans US President Donald Trump permanently "due to the risk of further incitement of violence".

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King Umberto II and Queen Maria José of Italy and their daughter, Princess Maria Gabriella, attend the pre-wedding ball of the Prince of Asturias and Princess Sophia of Greece at the Royal Palace of Athens, 1962.

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Victor Emmanuel III, Queen Elena, and Crown Princess Marie-José with Pope Pius XII at the Quirinal Palace. The ladies are both dressed in white, as they had “Le privilège du blanc”, which is a custom where certain Royal women are allowed to wear white dresses and veils during audiences with the Pope, as opposed to the traditional black.