The Cross of Laeken

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 ...

Michael Palo thoughtfully reviews Belgium and the Monarchy: from National Independence to National Disintegration , an adapted English trans...

Here is the full text of Mark Twain's scathing satire of the founder of the Congo Free State.  As always, Twain is a brilliant writer; f...

(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...

Here are some pages from The Cambridge history of Africa: from 1870 to 1905   giving a well-balanced account of an inflammatory subject: the...

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...

Leopold I, King of the Belgians (1790-1865) had several families. By Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796-1817), he had two babies, lost to m...

In Amours royales et princières, Patrick Weber writes that the Belgian royal family has had a tradition of brothers with diametrically oppos...

Heroes?

Belgium's most controversial monarch. An excellent article everyone should read.

On December 17, 1865, a week after his father's death , Leopold II, King of the Belgians , ascended the throne. Leopold II is no favorit...

On December 10, 1865, the first King of the Belgians, Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , died after a lingering illness. Although he had ruled ...

In Chapter VIII of his memoirs, Their Majesties As I Knew Them (1911) , Xavier Paoli provides a fascinating portrayal of the controversial ...