2021 comes loaded with ephemeris, anniversaries and royal celebrations. Although the coronavirus pandemic continues to rule in the royals’ plans, with the vaccine it is expected that little by little we will return to normality and that the festivities of yesteryear will return in a special year, for example, to Queen Máxima, turning 50. Surely she would like to celebrate it with a big party, but it will be the evolution of the pandemic that dictates how each act is celebrated.
At Vanitatis we have developed a calendar with the most important events and birthdays of this 2021 so you don’t miss out on anything.
The 83rd birthday of King Juan Carlos It already made headlines in the Spanish press on January 5 and it is possible that the 53 that Don Felipe will meet on January 30 will also do so. For their part, in Norway they will live the 30th anniversary of the proclamation of King Harald.
There is not much to celebrate in February, except Princess Estefanía and her birthday, and the 40 years of marriage of the Grand Duke Henry and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg.
He grand duke henry He will repeat the celebration in March, as he reaches 65 years old and in top form. The Infanta Margarita also has her birthday this month.
April is already more animated with Elizabeth II’s 95th birthday. As has been commented, the queen intends to celebrate it in style. A few days later, another family event will fill the Windsors with joy: the aluminum wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The main protagonist of this month will be Maxima from Holland, who will turn 50, while the Alawite heir will come of age. Little Charles from Luxembourg will blow his first candle and Archie, from California, the second.
A century will celebrate in June the Duke of Edinburgh. Without a doubt, a historical figure that he will surely celebrate surrounded by his entire family.
July goes to wedding anniversaries, the 10 of Albert and Charlène of Monaco and the 40 of Prince Charles and Lady Di.
In August, Meghan Markle will turn 40 while in Belgium Prince Gabriel, second son of Felipe and Matilde, will come of age.
In September, Queen Letizia It will be dangerously close to 50 while Marta Luisa will indeed reach five decades.
October is the month of the Spanish royal family. On the 12th they celebrate Hispanic Heritage Day, on the 15th the Princess of Asturias Awards and on the 31st the birthday of Leonor.
A young lady Lady Louise, daughter of the Earls of Wessex and granddaughter of Elizabeth II, she will grow up on November 8 when she turns 18. Doña Sofía, for her part, will blow out the 83 candles.
And in December, there will surely be a big party in Holland with the 18 Princess Amalia.
Births …
Apart from the celebrations and birthdays already mentioned, there are a good number of births planned for this 2021. Perhaps the most imminent is the case of Princess Eugenie of York, who will give birth in the coming weeks to her first child with Jack Brooskbank, the first grandson for Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. But he is not the only baby to be expected at the Windsors. Zara Phillips, granddaughter of Elizabeth II, and Mike Tindall, who are already parents of two girls, Mia and Lena, are expecting their third child, who will come into the world in spring.
Also in Sweden they await the stork, since in March or early April Carlos Felipe and Sofía Hellqvist, who already have Alexander and Gabriel, will become parents of their third child. The baby will occupy the seventh place in the line of succession to the Swedish throne and will be the first of the grandchildren of the kings who will be born without the status of Royal Highness – he will only be Highness – and without belonging to the royal family, since Carlos XVI Gustavo made a rule change in 2019, prioritizing the heiress’s children, Estelle and Oscar.
… and weddings
The coronavirus has caused many weddings to be canceled in 2020, so it is expected that this year all couples who could not go through the altar will do so. As Princess Theodora of Greece, who has been forced to postpone her wedding to Matthew Kumar up to two times. The date of the link is still unknown, as is the case with his brother’s nuptials Phillipos with Nina Flohr. They already got married in a civil way this past December, but they are waiting for the pandemic to improve to celebrate a big religious wedding.
Another wedding, albeit not a real one, that many look forward to is that of James Middleton con Alizée Thevenet. The Duchess of Cambridge’s brother had planned to get married in 2020, but already announced via Instagram that they had no problem waiting to celebrate with a big party. One of the attractions of this link is seeing George, Charlotte and Louis being part of the wedding party.
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