King Albert & Queen Paola : Current Events Part 1

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Welcome to a new thread especially dedicated to King Albert & Queen Paola of Belgium's current news

Please post their current news, articles, and photos here....

thank you

 

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from belgapic

20060222 - ARDOOIE, BELGIUM:
Belgium's King Albert II visits Sioen Industries n.v., Wednesday 22 February 2006 in Ardooie. Sioen industries is specialised in coated technical textile and protective industrial clothes.

BELGA PHOTO MARK RENDERS

 

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more from belgapic

 

[HRH Mims]

Thank you purple platinum for pics! they are really good!

 

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Queen Paola visit philantrophic society's exposition in Brussels
February 22, 2006

(photos from facetoface)

 

[Royal Fan]

How old is His Majesty ive forgotten when is his Birthday?

 

[BeatrixFan]

Wow! You still have black face in Belgium? And Minstrelsy? I'm impressed.

 

[fanletizia]

King Albert with the presidentof Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sulejman Tihic, in the Royal Palace

from terra

 

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Belgian King Albert II (R) meets with Bosnian President Sulejman Tihic 06 March 2006 at the Royal Palace in Brussels.
AFP PHOTO / ETIENNE ANSOTTE via ANP

 

[Adry]

King Albert today in the University of Brussels
Belga Picture
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/

 

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King Albert visits the Robotica and Artificial Intelligence department of the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) university in Brussels, Tuesday 07 March 2006.

photos from facetoface

 

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20060307 - BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Belgium's King Albert II (L) visits the Robotica and Artificial Intelligence department of the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) university in Brussels, Tuesday 07 March 2006.
from BELGA PHOTO MARK RENDERS

 

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20060307 - BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Belgium's King Albert II tries out a virtual mask at the Robotica and Artificial Intelligence department of the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) university in Brussels, Tuesday 07 March 2006.
from BELGA PHOTO MARK RENDERS

 

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20060307 - BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Belgium's King Albert II (R) listens to Professor Dirk Lefeber (L) as he visits the Robotica and Artificial Intelligence department of the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) university in Brussels, Tuesday 07 March 2006.
also from BELGA PHOTO MARK RENDERS

 

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March 7, 2006
Visit of Queen Paola to the Royal Antheneum "Lucienne Tellier"

photos from facetoface

 

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more of the lovely Queen... she looks good in this colour
photos from facetoface

 

[King Kong]

20060307 - BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Belgium's King Albert II tries out a virtual mask at the Robotica and Artificial Intelligence department of the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) university in Brussels, Tuesday 07 March 2006.
from BELGA PHOTO MARK RENDERS

Wow! How could he manage without his glasses? His eyesight is far from good. Well, good for the old guy!
Cheers!
Martin

 

[fanletizia]

President of Serbia and Montenegro, Svetozar Marovic (L), and Belgiums King Albert II pose for photographers at the Royal Palace in Brussels March 9

from terra and yahoo/reuters

 

[mandyy]

Belgium's King Albert II (R) meets with President of Serbia and Montenegro Svetozar Marovic 09 March 2006 at the Royal Palace in Brussels.

From getty images

 

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King Albert receives coauthors of the book "Trialoog-hoopvolle stemmen voor een angstige tijd"

from terra

 

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14/03/2006
the Queen
Visit to the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Recently, the Plantin-Moretus Museum was included in the list of the world inheritance of UNESCO.

20060314 - ANTWERP, BELGIUM: Queen Paola pictured during a visit to Antwerp Plantin Moretus museum, Tuesday 14 March 2006.

from belgapic (BELGA PHOTO HERWIG VERGULT)

 

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more from the Queen's visit to Antwerp Plantin Moretus museum
(from belgapic)

 

[alejandro_sk]

more from the Queen's visit to Antwerp Plantin Moretus museum
(from belgapic)

Hello!
What kind of museum is the Antwerp Plantin Moretus? A science one, historical one? In one of the pics they are showing the Queen something that looks like two spheres and it looks interesting.
Do they speak French or Dutch in Antwerp?
Thank you!
Alejandro

 

[King Kong]

Do they speak French or Dutch in Antwerp?
Alejandro

If I remember rightly, people speak Dutch in Antwerp, though they might, repeat might, have conducted the guided tour for the Queen in French as her Dutch - Flemmish - is not very good.
But there are people much more knowledgeable than me in this forum who will clear all your doubts.
Cheers!
Martin

 

[adelaide]

I ever find that Paola is a very beautiful and classy woman. I remenber when I was young she was the most beautiful woman of the gotha and so alive....Now, that i like is this kind of true philosophy that she is expressing about the life. Something like the life will to be long and they are periods for all the things. What a good life !

 

[Maxie]

Hello!
What kind of museum is the Antwerp Plantin Moretus? A science one, historical one? In one of the pics they are showing the Queen something that looks like two spheres and it looks interesting.
Do they speak French or Dutch in Antwerp?
Thank you!
Alejandro

It's a museum of printing history in Antwerp. If I recall it well, Plantin (or Plantijn in flemish) was the first Belgian printer in the 16th century (or the first printer of Belgium and Holland, I don't quite recall... which is very bad, because I had to to an exam on the history of Dutch language when I was in my first year here at university... so many knowledge wasted! Sigh...)

Well, you can visit it's website to learn more about it:
http://museum.antwerpen.be/plantin_moretus/index_eng.html

 

[Hans]

Nice pictures of HM The Queen

 

[alejandro_sk]

It's a museum of printing history in Antwerp. If I recall it well, Plantin (or Plantijn in flemish) was the first Belgian printer in the 16th century (or the first printer of Belgium and Holland, I don't quite recall... which is very bad, because I had to to an exam on the history of Dutch language when I was in my first year here at university... so many knowledge wasted! Sigh...)

Well, you can visit it's website to learn more about it:
http://museum.antwerpen.be/plantin_moretus/index_eng.html

Thank you, Maxie!
Hmmm, let's not talk about exams yet ... I'm just starting a new school term
Alejandro

 

[crisiñaki]

thanks for the pictures Jess!!!

 

[purple_platinum]

thanks for the pictures Jess!!!

no problem, crisinaki! The Queen looks wonderful in her brown suit...

and now, the King, today :

20060316 - BRUSSELS, BELGIUM :King Albert II of Belgium (L) chats with Brunson McKinley (R), International General Director of the Migration Organisation, as he attends the closing session of the Conference on Migration and Development, Thursday 16 March 2006, in Brussels.

photos by BELGA PHOTO/ YVES BOUCAU