The Cross of Laeken

My favorite painting by Rogier Van der Weyden. Dated after 1454. Via  WebMuseum . 

Here we have an interesting painting, by the great Flemish artist Rogier Van der Weyden (1400-1464). St. Luke (apparently a self-portrait of...

On May 25, 1940, three days before the Belgian capitulation in World War II, King Leopold III of the Belgians wrote to King George VI of En...

Here are excerpts from King Leopold III's broadcast address to the USA, delivered, on October 27, 1939, in the early stages of World War...

The life of Leopold III, (1901-1983), fourth King of the Belgians, was marked by tragedy. War, grief, betrayal, calumny, imprisonment, exil...

The royal palace of Laeken, Belgium. Credits and more information here .

I have already posted on the piety of Albert I, King of the Belgians. There is a remarkable account of Albert's meeting with Father Mat...

The composer Camille St. Saens has given us this impressive (and, I think, very apt) characterization of Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians: ...

Not long before ascending the throne, Albert of Belgium wrote to his sister, Princess Josephine: "I hope that this Cross, a so-called ...