Yesterday afternoon, His Majesty King Philippe of Belgium delivered the annual Christmas Eve address. The speech was pre-recorded in the three official languages of Belgium: French, Dutch and German.
His Majesty began by recalling a visit earlier in the month by a group of children to meet him in the Palace where he was able to show their curious minds the job of King and even spoke to them about…
The Belgian government has decided that Prince Laurent is to lose 15% of his dotation in 2018. The Prince is being punished for his unauthorised visit to the Chinese Embassy earlier this year.
Yesterday, the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel announced that Prince…
Prince Laurent says his human rights are being breached after pay cut
1st December 2017
Prince Laurent of Belgium, the younger brother of King Philippe of the Belgians, is claiming that the government is violating his human rights after Prime Minister Michel moved to cut his annual €308,000 (£280,000) government endowment. The meeting between Charles Michel…
Prince Laurent of Belgium is in the news again after reportedly ‘hiding’ from the Belgian Prime Minister.
The news comes from Het Laatste Nieuws (anglicised: The Latest News), a Dutch newspaper based in Brussels, that reports the controversial prince is avoiding Prime Minister Charles Michel over his unauthorised trip to China.
Earlier this year, Prince Laurent attended a celebration at the…
King Philippe took over Queen Mathilde’s annual engagement today as he read to children during the Reading Week. This has a special reason behind it.
Each year Queen Mathilde steps out as the Patron of the Reading Week, to read a book to children in an elementary…
Their Majesties Queen Mathilde and King Philippe of Belgium are currently on a State Visit to India. On the second day, the Queen was accompanied by the Indian Minister for Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi.
On Tuesday the Queen visited Childline, India’s first…
The uncle of Queen Mathilde of the Belgians is on trial for fraud. “Nonkel Henri” or Count Henri d’Udekem d’Acoz allegedly tried to scam people in Flemish-Brabant for tens of thousands of euros, together with an another man. He has already been convicted to six months in jail for another case.
Count Henri, who is 83 years old and a respected lawyer, and the other suspect…
The Walloon tv programme Place Royale has conducted a new survey in which several Belgians were asked questions about the current monarchy. The survey showed a quarter of the Belgians want to get rid of the monarchy and make Belgium a republic.
After 1500 days of King…
The brother of Queen Paola of Belgium, Don Antonello Ruffo di Calabria has died at the age of 87 in Rome. The death was announced yesterday via the Italian press. He had been admitted to the hospital to undergo an operation. Antonello founded the first ornithological nature…
Statues of the second King of the Belgians, Leopold II, belong in a museum and not in any public space. That any still exist and that streets are named for the King is a disgrace. So writes the Belgium jurist from a Congolese background Sandrine Efoko in Knack magazine.
“The King was responsible for a barbaric rule in Congo for over twenty years. This policy of terror by Leopold II only had…
