The Cross of Laeken

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.

This is quite a moving clip of Diana, Princess of Wales at the funeral of Princess Grace of Monaco. It is perhaps a little off topic, but ...

Queen Elisabeth of Belgium as a widow.

A touching account by Lea Laurent of the family sorrows of Albert and Elisabeth prior to the First World War. (Some of the dates are a few d...

Gareth Russell eloquently describes the horrific massacre of the Romanovs. Albert I, King of the Belgians, then grimly struggling throu...

Here is an article about three glamorous, charismatic women who died in automobile accidents; Queen Astrid of the Belgians, Princess Grace o...

August 29, the feast of the martyrdom of St. John the Baptist, is the anniversary of the tragic death of Belgium's most beloved queen, t...

Today, we remember King Leopold III of the Belgians and his heroic but tragic refusal to accompany his government into exile in the las...

Below is a translation of  a poignant letter  by Dieudonné Lambrecht, a great hero of the Belgian resistance during World War I, who was exe...

Here is a very sad article from La Libre Belgique   describing how King Albert II was basically bullied into signing Belgium's euthanasi...

All my sympathies, condolences and prayers are with the Imperial Family and people of Japan at this terrible time. This Japanese disaster m...

Elena Maria Vidal has a searing post about the horrific  holocaust in Rwanda , a former Belgian mandate, in 1994. I cannot resist sharing ...

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

Here is her beautiful last letter, addressed to her sister-in-law, Madame Elisabeth of France.  Sadly, it never reached her. 16th October, ...

As Léopold III was himself no stranger to sorrow, it's interesting to see the delicate manner in which he consoled others who lost loved...

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the tragic death of Astrid of Sweden (1905-1935), consort of the unluckiest of Belgian kings , Leopold ...

An awful story, from the life of Albert I: When Albert was returning by automobile to Brussels from Louvain in January [1921?] his vehicle ...

Poignant words from Princess Clementine, taken from a letter to her sister Stephanie after visiting their cousin, Leopold III , at Laeken,...

August 29, 2010 will mark the 75th anniversary of the tragic death of Queen Astrid. On this occasion, King Albert II will pay tribute to his...