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Marie of Waldeck-Pyrmont, Princess of Württemberg; Credit – Wikipedia
May 23, 1482 – Death of Mary of York, daughter of King Edward IV of England, at Greenwich Palace in London, England; buried at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle in Windsor, England
In 1481, negotiations began for a marriage between Mary and Frederik, Duke of Holstein and Schleswig (the future King Frederik I of Denmark and Norway), the youngest son of King Christian I of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. However, at the end of 1481, Mary became seriously ill with an unknown illness and died, aged fourteen. She was interred on the north side of the altar in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle in Windsor, England at the side of her younger brother George, who had died three years earlier at the age of two. Mary’s parents were interred in a tomb nearby – her father in 1483 and her mother in 1492.
Unofficial Royalty: Mary of York
May 23, 1857 – Birth of Marie of Waldeck-Pyrmont, Princess of Württemberg, first wife of the future King Wilhelm II of Württemberg, in Arolsen, Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont, now in Hesse, Germany
Full name: Georgine Henriette Marie
Marie was the sister of Emma who married King Willem III of the Netherlands and Helena who married Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. In 1877, Marie married Prince Wilhelm of Württemberg, the future King Wilhelm II of Württemberg, and the couple had two children. On April 24, 1882, Marie gave birth to a stillborn daughter, her third child, and suffered serious complications from childbirth. She died six days later.
Unofficial Royalty: Marie of Waldeck-Pyrmont, Princess of Württemberg
May 23, 1947 – Death of Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, husband of Mary, Princess Royal, at Harewood House in Leeds, Yorkshire, England; buried at All Saints Church in Harewood, West Yorkshire, England
Henry married Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George V of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey in London, England on February 28, 1922. Despite their fifteen-year age difference and rumors that the marriage was not happy, their elder son George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood said the marriage was a happy one. He wrote in his memoirs that they “got on well together and had a lot of friends and interests in common.”
Unofficial Royalty: Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
May 23, 2013 – Death of Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, Head of the House of Hesse, in Frankfurt, Germany; buried in the family cemetery at the former Schloss Friedrichshof (now Schlosshotel Kronberg) in Kronberg im Taunus, Hesse
Moritz was head of the House of Hesse, and pretender to the former Grand Ducal throne of Hesse and by Rhine from 1980 until his death
Unofficial Royalty: Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse
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