Belgium

YEAR IN REVIEW: Belgium's 2022 gives the country hope for the future

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28th December 2022
Belgium’s royal year was filled with joy, grief, and historic firsts.2022 was opened with the death of Prince Lorenz’s mother, Princess Margherita of Savoy-Aosta, Archduchess of Austria-Este, aged 91, on 10 January. Princess Astrid’s mother-in-law was laid to rest almost 20 days later, on 29 January, in a ceremony in Switzerland that also saw King Philippe present.In…
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Belgium

Princess Elisabeth of Belgium undertakes her first solo engagement in the pouring rain

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27th June 2022
Princess Elisabeth of Belgium has undertaken her first solo public engagement as she christened the RV Belgica – the country’s newest research vessel. Just the day after her final university exam of the session, Her Royal Highness arrived in Ghent, the capital of the Eastern Flanders region, and the country’s third largest port. Dressed in white with pink accessories, the…
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European Royals

New photo of future European monarchs released

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18th June 2022
Ahead of the gala dinner at the Royal Palace in Oslo for Princess Ingrid Alexandra’s 18th birthday, a special photo of some of the future monarchs of Europe was released by the Royal Court.The image was taken in the Bird Room of the Royal Palace and featured four future queens and one future grand duke.Princess Amalia of the Netherlands, 18, Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, 20…
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Belgium

Belgium's Princess Elisabeth begins university education

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4th October 2021
Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth has begun her university education at Oxford University’s Lincoln College in the United Kingdom. Her first day of classes is today.The Belgian Royal Palace has released nine new photos to mark the occasion, which were taken on 27 and 28 of September in Oxford by Bas Bogaerts. She is photographed alongside some of her new classmates in some of the…
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