The Cross of Laeken

As May draws to a close, I encourage everyone to read this excellent account from the Mad Monarchist.   I especially like his suggestion...

Another tragic sister-in-law of Queen Maria José. She was more fortunate than Astrid and Mafalda, though.

For readers who know Italian, here is a fascinating website  on King Umberto II (1904-1983), the husband of Princess Marie-José of Belgium (...

Here is an article about the generous and charitable Montenegrin princess who became the mother of the last King of Italy, Umberto II, and, ...

Here is a lovely post on a revered ancestress of the Belgian royal family, Maria Amalia of Naples, the "Queen of the French."  As...

Here is an article about a lavish display of the dresses of Queen Marie-José of Italy, the daughter of King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth of ...

A magnificent gift from the court of Leopold II to Pope Pius IX.  To quote the Exiled Belgian Royalist: By tradition Belgium has always be...

A stunning Savoy heirloom which graced the first and last Queens of Italy, Margherita and Maria José.

A magnificent tribute to the daughter of Albert and Elisabeth.

By a stroke of luck, I just found  this PhD dissertation , by Linda MacNayr of Queen's University, on the artistic portrayals of Empres...

Here are the funerary statues, by Antonin Mercié, of King Louis-Philippe and Queen Marie-Amélie at the Chapelle Royale de Dreux . (Photog...

Here is a painting, dated 1783, by Angelica Kauffman, of King Ferdinand IV and Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, and six of their many, many ...

Here is the first of five installments of a grim, but deeply moving Italian documentary on the tragic fate of the lovely Mafalda of Savoy, ...

Here is an interview with the exiled Queen of Italy, Marie-José, at her home in Merlingue, Switzerland. Among other reminiscences, she reca...

The disgraceful tale of Prince Vittorio Emanuele. I feel so sorry for his mother, the lovely and dignified Queen Marie-José. It seems tha...

It is sadly ironic that May, the month of flowers, garlands and Our Lady, has historically been a month of sorrow for the Belgian royal fami...

As revealed in her Journal (see HERE and HERE ), Marie-Amélie, Queen of the French, was a woman of profound Catholic faith. With such a pio...

I was fascinated to read the account of Marie-Amélie of Naples (1782-1866), Queen of the French from 1830-1848, by her great-granddaughter, ...

(Some rights reserved) In 1938, Princess Marie-José, daughter of King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, paid a remarkable visit to t...

On October 24, 1929 (ominously enough, the infamous "Black Thursday," the first day of the Wall Street Crash) the engagement of Pr...