drol 11,923 Posted February 10 8 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said: Another article from today. States a reaction from the President of Nigeria. Surely dead then? I'd be cautious as the message from the president came before the denial. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,923 Posted February 13 Joseph Chike Edozien dead for good at 98. EDIT: died on the 6th, as per initial reports. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sinbabad 1,115 Posted February 19 Princess Ira Von Fürstenberg has died aged 83. She was also part of the Agnelli family through her mother. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,045 Posted February 19 11 minutes ago, Sinbabad said: Princess Ira Von Fürstenberg has died aged 83. She was also part of the Agnelli family through her mother. I know there is a connexion somewhere with fashion designer Diane but can’t see where Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 2,173 Posted February 19 On 19/02/2024 at 22:01, Lafaucheuse said: I know there is a connexion somewhere with fashion designer Diane but can’t see where Diane was married to Ira's brother, Egon. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
polar duck 866 Posted February 28 On 14/11/2023 at 17:16, polar duck said: Hitachi has barely appeared in public since his surgery. His wife also represented him at last month's Paraemium Imperiale Awards Ceremony. New photo of Prince and Princess Hitachi Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted March 14 Nigerian royal and the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadan Land, HRM Oba Mohood Olalekan (Lekan) Balogun, has died. He was 81. https://leadership.ng/breaking-olubadan-oba-lekan-balogun-dies-at-82/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,697 Posted March 31 On 23/04/2022 at 14:39, arghton said: Eze V. B. C. Onyema III (13 February 1927-) Eze Onyema III of Ogwu-Ikpele, an area in Nigeria since 1976. Eze V. B. C. Onyema III dead? I have no idea what's happening in the video, that white guy twerking and everything, but according to the description it's a celebration of the Eze Onyema's life. Can't find a deathdate either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sinbabad 1,115 Posted March 31 21 minutes ago, arghton said: Eze V. B. C. Onyema III dead? I have no idea what's happening in the video, that white guy twerking and everything, but according to the description it's a celebration of the Eze Onyema's life. Can't find a deathdate either. These other links, a twitter post and an article also say he’s dead. The article written on 4 March talks about his funerals so he should be dead at the end of February. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,577 Posted March 31 23 minutes ago, arghton said: Eze V. B. C. Onyema III dead? I have no idea what's happening in the video, that white guy twerking and everything, but according to the description it's a celebration of the Eze Onyema's life. Can't find a deathdate either. Yeah, he's dead. News piece here. Other news sources from Facebook here and here. Can't find a date of death but earliest mention I can find of his death is on 2nd March. Funnily enough most releases say he was 105. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,577 Posted March 31 On 23/04/2022 at 12:39, arghton said: Africa has quite a lot of elderly traditional rulers, if anyone is interested here are the ones I'm aware of born before 1940: *snip* Igwe Kenneth Onyeneke Orizu III (30 October 1925-) Obi of Otolo and Igwe of Nnewi Kingdom since 1963. Nnewi is a slightly smaller city than Asaba in Nigeria, Kenneth abolished a local caste system once. Gundonaa Samata Abudu (9 March 1926-) Ghanaian traditional ruler, Gundonaa/Paramount woman chief of the Dagbon traditional region in the Northern Region of Ghana. The Gundonaa is the only Chief, be it male or female, who is able to veto the Yaa-Naa's word, whatever the hell that means. Arubiefin IV, Owa of Idanre (March 1927-) Nigerian traditional monarch of old city Idanre. Crowned in September 1976. Sayyadi Abubakar Mahmoud Usman (1928-) Emir of Ringim, an area in Nigeria since 1991. So there are just 4 traditional African rulers born in the 1920s still with us. 3 from Nigeria, and 1 from Ghana Latest updates for all 4 of them: Igwe Kenneth Onyeneke Orizu III New photos of him from 17th March. Looks fine. However, his wife, HRH Lolo Orizu, died on Thursday! Gundonaa Samata Abudu Video uploaded to TikTok of a news report from June 2023. Looks fine. Arubiefin IV, Owa of Idanre New photos from his 97th birthday celebrations from yesterday, 30th March. Looks fine. Sayyadi Abubakar Mahmoud Usman New photos of him here from 20th March. Looks fine. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,923 Posted April 10 Queen Sofia of Spain hospitalised with UTI, but of course greatly improving. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,923 Posted April 13 On 10/04/2024 at 15:23, drol said: Queen Sofia of Spain hospitalised with UTI, but of course greatly improving. Discharged. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,923 Posted June 4 Muwenda Mutebi II of Buganda (wiki), longtime King of Buganda, has been hospitalised for two months in Namibia. Frequently treated in Germany before that, probably the second most important political figure in Uganda after Museveni. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,923 Posted June 5 On 26/12/2021 at 13:34, arghton said: Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah looks frailish in new photos. Last King of Afghanistan Mohammed Zahir Shah's (1914-2007) daughter, Princess Maryam Begum dead at 85 on Christmas Day: https://www.khabaronline.ir/news/1586406/دختر-آخرین-پادشاه-افغانستان-درگذشت-عکس Five of his eight children are still alive, including oldest child Princess Bilqis Begum (89) and Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan (87). Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan, dead at 89. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,302 Posted June 16 On 23/04/2022 at 13:39, arghton said: Tagwai Sambo (24 December 1936-) Monarch of Asholyio (Moroa), Nigeria since 1966. Tagwai Sambo (Wiki), Monarch of Asholyio, dead at 87 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,923 Posted June 29 On 07/08/2021 at 15:52, arghton said: Mohammed VI (b. 1963) King of Morocco since 1999. Current health issues: Hospitalised in 2009, heart surgeries in 2018 and 2020. Has been overweight. "Queen Mother": Lalla Latifa (b. 1946) Stepfather: Mohamed Mediouri (b. 1938) Morocco's queen mother Lalla Latifa dead at 78. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,923 Posted July 7 On 03/02/2024 at 11:28, La Tombe said: Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, head of the house of Savoy and heir to the throne of Italy dead at 86. Marina Doria, the 89-year old widow of Vittorio Emanuele, has been hospitalised for more than a month. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,923 Posted July 7 On 15/07/2022 at 21:27, MortalCaso said: (Wiki) Dom Luiz of Orléans-Braganza reported dead at age 84 Antonio of Orléans-Braganza, heir apparent to the House of Orléans Braganza, hospitalised with respiratory failure. His elder brother Bertrand is still the pretender to the Emperor title. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,697 Posted July 21 On 01/06/2022 at 20:40, arghton said: . Marianne Bernadotte, Princess Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg (15 July 1924-) Seems to be doing well, but has made less public appearances in recent years. Aunt of the king of Sweden. Marianne Bernadotte has lived in a Stockholm care home the last 4 years. She, Marianne Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (bedbound for the last two years since miraculously surviving covid), Princess Felicitas of Salm-Horstmar, Princess Mikasa (heart failure, two strokes this year, currently hospitalised etc), Induratana Paribatra (is she even alive?) and Ashi Tashi Dorji are all over 100 years old. Marie Christine of Württemberg will be 100 in a few months and is very frail. Sheikh Salem has been seemingly hospitalised for the last three years (and has been in failing health for two decades), Queen Ratna has been in poor health for years and Jamshid of Zanzibar was dying in 2020. It's a small miracle that the list has been without deaths for more than nine months. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,302 Posted July 28 Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark (Wiki) dead at 85 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThereWillBeDeaths7 720 Posted July 28 37 minutes ago, Gisooo said: Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark (Wiki) dead at 85 He reportedly was the last living great-grandchild of King Christian IX of Denmark (r. 1863-1906) 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,697 Posted August 10 On 15/07/2021 at 12:36, arghton said: Queen Silvia (b. 1943) Queen Consort of Sweden, fall at the start of the year and has had some mild health troubles before. Silvia has one living sibling, her oldest brother Ralf Sommerlath (b. 1929) Queen Silvia of Sweden leaves the olympics to travel to visit her brother Ralf Sommerlath in Belgium. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,697 Posted August 18 On 31/03/2024 at 16:20, Ulitzer95 said: Arubiefin IV, Owa of Idanre New photos from his 97th birthday celebrations from yesterday, 30th March. Looks fine. Arubiefin IV, Owa of Idanre dead at "102". I don't think I've ever seen a more "emotional" obituary before: There were no signs that something ominous would happen that day (...) However to my shock at the eerie hours of that Thursday the news filtered in that the highly revered paramount ruler of my town, Idanre in Ondo State, Oba Fredrick Adegunle Aroloye, Arubiefin IV, the Owa of Idanreland, had gone to join his ancestors. For 30 minutes, I was dumbstruck. Bewildered. Speechless. I couldn’t accept that my Owa has translated to the world beyond . Just like that! (...) When I regained my composure, sweet memories of my beloved Kabiyesi began to reel with enthralling motion in my subconscious. He was everything to me. He was like the biblical Rock of Gibraltar to me (...) As the heavens open their arms to welcome Oba Fredrick Adegunle Aroloye, Arubiefin IV, to paradise -God’s abode – where there is no pain nor sorrow, where there is everlasting joy and eternal celebration, and endless worship of God, I have no doubt in my mind that the Owa of Idanre is happy and blissfully singing HALLELUJAH with the Angels. (...) But despite his longevity, his passing is a big blow to me. I will miss him sorely. Rest in perfect peace, my King. Leaves two or three living African traditional monarchs born in the 1920s. The Emir of Ringim was 75 in 2006, more likely born around 1931 than 1928. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 2,173 Posted October 2 Fazile Hanımsultan, an Ottoman royal who almost became Queen of Iraq in 1958, only for her fiancé to be assassinated in a revolution mere weeks before the wedding, reportedly dead at 83. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
