The Cross of Laeken

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

A World War I miracle? From Warfare History Network : In the night of the 26th, the third day of the retreat west through Belgium, wear...

Here is a description of Queen Elisabeth's charitable works during World War I: It is difficult for anyone who had even the slightes...

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

In her book, Kings, Queens, and Pawns , available on Project Gutenberg, American writer and reporter Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) g...

In another chapter of Kings, Queens, and Pawns, Mary Roberts Rinehart brings Queen Elisabeth of Belgium to life. This is how she describe...

Brand Whitlock gives a moving account of the early days of World War I in Brussels.  Here is a description of an audience with Queen Elisab...

Yesterday was a sorrowful centennial, marking a hundred years since the murder of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Fra...

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

The beloved first wife of the man in whose care the Belgian royal children were placed during World War I . Mary, however, had passed away...

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...

I do not quite understand the symbolism here, but this is a touching postcard of Elisabeth of Belgium.

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

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

Today is the anniversary of the German invasion of Belgium in 1914. Here is information about Queen Elisabeth's establishment of a ch...

Above is a facsimile of the Belgian queen's earnest appeal to the women of America for humanitarian aid for her people during the cru...

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

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

I am delighted to welcome Christina Croft, author of the Shattered Crowns trilogy, to Cross of Laeken to share her research and ref...

Charlotte Kellogg relates the efforts of the Queen and other great ladies to assist Belgian lace workers, especially during the harsh Ger...