Belgian Royal Family Picture Thread


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On Sunday during the Pope 's Masss , there is a picture of King Albert sitting and Delphine just behind standing. She looks so much as her father.
 
Linda_26 said:
A Christmas Card from 2012, with Albert, Paola and their grandchildren:

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Much better than THAT Spanish card with the photoshopped grandchildren :eek: :lol:
I love the pic of Elisabeth painting alongside Paola, I remember the former queen saying that she had hired a painter to teach her granddaughters (Elisabeth, Laetitia and Louise) to paint, so the girls spent time with their grandparents and learned art :flowers:
 
leidi said:
Much better than THAT Spanish card with the photoshopped grandchildren :eek: :lol:
I love the pic of Elisabeth painting alongside Paola, I remember the former queen saying that she had hired a painter to teach her granddaughters (Elisabeth, Laetitia and Louise) to paint, so the girls spent time with their grandparents and learned art :flowers:
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Yes, the painter in question is Pierre Chariot:
Entourage: Pierre Chariot

He's a personal friend of the former royal couple (he was also interviewed by RTBF with his wife earlier this year for King Albert's 90th birthday), and also their neighbour in Villers-sur-Lesse
 
Since it's the anniversary of Josephine- Charlotte's birth...

Then Princess Astrid hugging her daughter Princess Josephine-Charlotte around 1930.

Crown Princess Astrid liked to take her children out for walks, Princess Josephine-Charlotte is seen riding on the "pram" in which is her two-month-old baby brother Baudouin while on vacation in Ostende on November 3, 1930


Queen Astrid with her two eldest and her father, Prince Carl Of Sweden, circa 1934.

Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium plays with her baby brother Prince Albert of Belgium, later King Albert II
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Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium on holiday at De Panne tries out a sand yacht on the beach, Belgium, 25th June 1938.
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Leopold III visits the tomb of his first wife, Queen Astrid, with his children King Baudouin I, Prince Albert and Princess Josephine-Charlotte
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Princess Josephine-Charlotte receives the Grand Cross of Honour at the Royal Palace of Brussels. Her fiance, Hereditary Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, is seen on her left, 21st January 1953.
 
Linda_26 said:
Beautiful picture, I had never seen it!
In this pic, I see some resemblance between her and her granddaughter Elisabeth, in the eyes and the shape of the face
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All of Paola's granddaughters got that finely boned facial structure (and even her grandsons got her eyes, Albert's are much more slanted and the King and Laurent's are wider, same as their sons') except for Laura, who's much more Habsburg.

Elisabeth does resemble Paola a lot when she has a serious face, like her expression is very much like her grandmother's at those times, the smile is more Coburg.
 
Princess Paola with her children in Oostende.






 
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King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola never went to the Villa Royale in Ostende. They prefered Spain.
 
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Curryong said:
That’s extraordinary really in quite modern times to have two children out of four die in childhood. I have read that Gustaf Eduward died from complications following surgery in 1936, but he looks a very healthy happy little kid in that photo. Was it a tonsils operation or something of that sort, I wonder. And his younger brother, the third son of the family, died in 1944 at the age of ten. No information about his passing, accident, operation, long illness?
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Back then it it was not uncommon to lose children at such tender ages due to illness although that is no longer the case due to the marvel of medicine. I am not surprised the family hasn't addressed the loss, why invoke grief?
 
The first one is in Ostende. This picture is known Thank you for posting other pictures I never saw.
There was a Doctors Strike , one of the young Children was ill and no Doctor. The Prince and the Princess de Liege never returned in Ostende and they are the last ones ..
 
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