The Cross of Laeken

I am saddened to hear of the loss of Queen Fabiola of Belgium, who passed away today.  May she rest in peace, with her late husband, King ...

I just discovered a touching blog dedicated to King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola.   It is written by a kind reader and supporter of this blog...

Today is the 21st anniversary of a sad event, the death of King Baudouin of the Belgians.  Baudouin suffered a heart attack while on vacat...

This book is two years old, but I only heard of it today.   La reine Astrid n'est pas morte à Küssnacht  ("Queen Astrid Did Not ...

Beginning July 21, Belgium will be one country with two kings and three queens.

This article, published February 12, 1961, in the Pittsburgh Press, shortly after Queen Fabiola's arrival in Belgium, furnishes an int...

Today is the nineteenth anniversary of King Baudouin's sudden and quite untimely death. He was only 62 when he succumbed to a heart atta...

Today, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, the much-loved and widowed consort of King Baudouin I, celebrates her 83rd birthday. Between precarious hea...

Footage of her arrival in Belgium, marriage to King Baudouin I, and early years as Queen.

  (Continued from Part I , Part II and Part III ) Today, I would like to conclude our series on the rampant over-sexualization of the Saxe...

(Continued from Part I and Part II ) Ever since Paul Reynaud's tragic, unjust indictment of the King, on May 28, 1940 , an endless seri...

We must not trust every word of others or feeling within ourselves, but cautiously and patiently try the matter, whether it be of God. Unha...

And kings in general... I'd rather not dwell on this silliness, but I find I must be strict for a bit. We're witnessing far too muc...

John J. Conley, S. J., discusses King Baudouin's courageous moral stand in the tragic abortion crisis of 1990 . It is a very interesting...

Empire-Furniture at the Royal Palace of Brussels, with old Beauvais tapestry, a wedding present by French king Louis Philippe to his son-i...

Today is the 50th anniversary of the magnificent wedding of Baudouin I, King of the Belgians (1930-1993) and his Spanish-born, aristocrati...

A tribute to the six women who have served as Belgium's queen consorts: Louise-Marie of Orléans (1812-1850) Marie-Henriette of Austria...

LadyLeana discusses the multifaceted, widowed consort of King Baudouin I. How Baudouin and Fabiola met and fell in love remains something o...

A hilarious story of Dowager Queen Fabiola's humorous and brave stand against repeated death threats on Belgium's National Day. (els...