Before the U.S. women's soccer team's ticker tape parade, the type of women who were honored were mostly royalty

New York's ticker tape parade today for the U.S. Women's World Cup champions is a first for a women's team. Other cool women have also been honored in the past, like Amelia Earhart and Gertrude Ederle, but for the most part the females who have glided down the Canyon of Champions have been royalty.

According to our count, 14 queens, princess, and empresses have been bestowed the honor since the first ticker tape parade, for the Statue of Liberty dedication, in 1886. By Five Thirty Eight's count, 159 New York parades have honored exclusively men, 12 exclusively women, and 23 a mix.

Here's a look at the 14 New York ticker tape parades for royal women:

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1919: The stylish Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, with King Albert in tow. In the 1950s, Queen Elisabeth would hang out in the Soviet Union, earning her the nickname "the Red Queen."

1926: Crown Princess Louise of Sweden, with Crown Prince Gustag Adolf. Queen Louise would reportedly try to smuggle her Pomeranian dogs through customs when traveling abroad.

1926: Queen Marie of Romania got her very own parade! It was rumored she organized grand orgies before and during the Soviet occupation of her country.

1930: Marquis Jacques de Dampierre "and family," presumably including his poor, unnamed wife.

1939: Crown Princess Märtha of Norway, with Crown Prince Olav. After the Nazi invasion of Norway, Märtha accepted President Roosevelt's offer of asylum and became a frequent guest at the White House.

1952: Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Queen Juliana has a minor planet named after her, because why not.

1953: King Paul and Queen Friederike of Greece. Freiderike has been described as "inherently undemocratic."

1957: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, with Prince Philip. The parade went without a hitch, except for "one old lady was spotted brandishing a small sign that read 'Ireland Belongs to the Irish — Get Out,'" according to the Downtown Alliance.

1959: Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands. Beatrix had come to commemorate Henry Hudson's voyage on the Half-Moon, but she herself cruised in style across the pond in an ocean liner.

1960: King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit Kitiyakara of Thailand. In her free time, Queen Sirikit wrote books and songs, and accepted awards and honorary degrees. As one does.

1960: Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev and Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi Sha, King and Queen of Nepal. The couple was observed wearing sunglasses both indoors and outdoors. Scandal!

1960: Frederick IX and Ingrid, King and Queen of Denmark. During the Nazi occupation of her country, Ingrid wasn't afraid to go out and push her baby carriage along the streets of Copenhagen, according to the Downtown Alliance.

1962: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah of Iran. After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the couple for a time lived in exile in Paradise Island in the Bahamas, which Farah later described as the "darkest days in her life."

1963: King Mohammed Zahir Shah and Queen Homaira of Afghanistan. A women's rights activist, Homaira voluntarily removed her veil as a gesture to other women that they could do the same.