The Cross of Laeken

The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia Here are some articles on the life of Isabel Clara Eugenia, the daughter of Philip II of Spain who became t...

Via RTBF, Florence de Moreau de Villegas de Saint Pierre, chatelaine of  Louvignies, gives several brief presentations on the life and...

Since I have featured excerpts from Mary Roberts Rinehart's wartime conversations with Albert and Elisabeth of Belgium, it may be in...

A war postcard showing Albert and Elisabeth, the Soldier-King and the Nurse-Queen, as protectors of their land and people.

Again, I have to apologize for a long absence. This was not due to lack of interest in the Belgian royal family, but I have been very busy w...

A dynastic portrait showing young, intense Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, the future Nurse-Queen of the Great War, with her sons, Prince ...

On February 23, 1934, a day after the funeral of his tragically deceased father, Albert I,  Leopold III, fourth King of the Belgians, ascen...

Today is the anniversary of the tragic and untimely death of Albert I, King of the Belgians. According to official documents, a chance ...

Commissioned and worn by Queen Victoria in honor of her husband. I always think he looked very much like the Belgian Albert.

A letter from Albert Einstein to his wife Elsa from 1931 describes the charming hospitality and informality of King Albert and Queen Elisabe...

Since we are approaching the end of the year, and the fourth anniversary of The   Cross of Laeken , I thought it might be fun to revisit som...

I want to take a moment to commemorate all those who suffered and died during World War I. I especially want to remember the brave people of...

A beautiful one commemorating U.S. relief to Belgium in World War I.  The profiles of the King and Queen are especially fine.

Some interesting insights from Charles d'Ydewalle's Albert and the Belgians: Portrait of a King. It almost seems as if, during tho...

An interesting portrayal of King Albert I (bottom left) among the Allied heads of state during World War I.

Another royal prayer card, showing King Leopold III with his tragically deceased father and wife and referencing the Marian apparitions a...

The Exiled Belgian Royalist remembers.  Here is the noble letter that General Gerard Leman, now a prisoner of war, sent King Albert after th...

History and Other Thoughts   remembers the heroic Englishwoman and her terrible death. King Albert and Queen Elisabeth greatly admired Mis...

In the past, I have discussed Elisabeth's sculpting lessons with Russian artist Catherine Barjansky, and the mutual admiration and affec...

Here is an article by Mary Roberts Rinehart reporting on wartime interviews with Albert and Elisabeth.  It was exaggerated in Allied propaga...