The Cross of Laeken

Today is the anniversary of the infamous "Mayerling Incident," the supposed double suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, only...

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

(Photo by David Edgar. Some rights reserved .)

By all accounts, King Albert I of the Belgians was very near-sighted. His daughter Marie-José, for instance, recalls in her memoirs that he ...

January 21 is the anniversary of the regicide of Louis XVI (1754-1793), the tragic King of France. HERE is his last will and testament, w...

To celebrate the launching of her beautiful new website , Elena Maria Vidal,  historian, novelist, and author of Trianon and Madame Royale...

In Louise reine des Belges: 1812-1850, Madeleine Lassère quotes (in French translation) a passage from Charlotte Bronte's  satirical no...

Here are a few extracts from a touching letter, dated January 31, 1982, addressed by King Baudouin I to his father, former King Leopold III....

Here are some photographs, courtesy of Michel Wal, of the royal crypt of the Church of Our Lady, Laeken. (Do click to enlarge the pictures!...

On January 8, 1930, Princess Marie-José of Belgium married the heir to the Italian throne, Prince Umberto of Savoy, at the Quirinal Palace ...