Yesterday, the Belgian and Dutch royal
children headed back to school after their summer holidays. Photo:
King Willem-Alexander For Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, this
year began at a new school. She joined her older sisters,
Princesses Amalia and Alexia at Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet in
The Hague, and proud father, King Willem-Alexander was ready with
the video camera to film his…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima
joined their Belgian counterparts, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde
in Terneuzen yesterday to mark the start “75 Years of Freedom.”
This will be followed by a year of commemorations for the 75th
anniversary of the end of the Second…
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of
Belgium have decided to send their oldest son, Prince Gabriël to an
exclusive, international private school close to Brussels. As of
the 2nd of September, the Prince will continue his education in a
new environment. As the summer…
The historic Villa des Cèdres in
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, once the summer home of Belgian royalty, has
sold for a jaw-dropping 200 million Euro this month to an
unspecified buyer. The 18,000-square-foot property was built in
1830 and operated as an olive tree farm until it was acquired by
the second King of Belgium, Leopold II, in 1904. He used it as a
holiday home and spent time on the French…
The Queen Paola Foundation was
created in 1992 as an initiative of Belgium’s Queen Paola to
promote the integration and training of socially vulnerable youth.
Her husband, King Albert II abdicated the throne for health reasons
in 2013, but Queen Paola continued to…
King Philippe has made some changes to
the Coat of Arms of the Belgian Royal Family. His Majesty also
introduced a Coat of Arms for his father King Albert II, and
Princess Elisabeth has now her own Coat of Arms. For the first time
in over 100 years, a Belgian monarch has…
The Belgian Royal Family marked Belgium’s
National Day on Sunday, and all eyes were directed towards Princess
Elisabeth and her uncle, Prince Laurent. On Sunday, Belgium
celebrated its National Day. On the 21st of July, the country
commemorates the investiture of King Leopold I of Belgium in 1831,
the country’s first monarch. Belgium used to be part of the
Netherlands before gaining its…
King Philippe of the Belgians has
recorded an address to the nation on the occasion of Belgium’s
National Day tomorrow. As is tradition, the speech was recorded in
the three official languages of Belgium: Dutch, French and…
The royals might be heading off on their
summer holidays but their autumn diaries are already starting to
fill up. In recent days, two State Visits have been announced for
October 2019. The King and Queen of the Netherlands will make a
five day trip to India which will…
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde visit ancestral castles during visit to German states
13th July 2019
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde paid an
official visit to the German federal states of Thuringia and
Saxony-Anhalt this week. While in Saxony-Anhalt, they visited an
ancestral castle where the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
once lived, Friedenstein Castle. Accompanied by the Prime Minister
of the German-speaking Community in Belgium, Oliver Paasch, King
Philippe and Queen Mathilde visited…
