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[european-royalties]

#OnThisDay 1st 📸 - Year 1815, Death of Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a general in the Austrian service. Born at Schloß Ehrenburg in Coburg, he was the youngest son of Duke Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. He was the great-uncle of King Leopold I of Belgium (1790–1865); and the great-great-uncle of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (1819–1901). 2nd 📸 - Year 1933, Death of Princess Thyra of Denmark, the youngest daughter and fifth child of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. In 1878, she married Ernest Augustus, the exiled heir to the Kingdom of Hanover. As the Kingdom of Hanover had been annexed by Prussia in 1866, she spent most of her life in exile with her husband in Austria. Her husband died on 14 November 1923. Thyra survived him by nine years and died in Gmunden, Upper Austria, on 26 February 1933. 3rd 📸 - Year 1933, Death of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, a dynast of the Russian Empire, a naval officer, an author, explorer, the brother-in-law of Emperor Nicholas II and advisor to him. Alexander was born in Tiflis, in the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Georgia). He was the son of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, the youngest son of Nicholas I of Russia, and Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna (Cecily of Baden). He was mostly known as "Sandro". #DeathAnniversary #HistoryofRoyals #RoyalHistory #PrinceJosias #SaxeCoburgSaalfeld #PrincessThyra #Denmark #GrandDuke #AlexanderMikhalovich #Russia #Monarchy #EuropeanRoyalties https://www.instagram.com/p/CLwIsnIFNPU/?igshid=aymln80cpfj6