The Cross of Laeken

An interesting anecdote from Charles d'Ydewalle's  Albert and the Belgians: Portrait of a King   illustrates all the King's sad ...

I was excited to discover that, apparently, there is , after all, a third volume of Princess Henriette's account of Marie-Amélie's ...

I used to take a negative view of Louis-Philippe , due mostly to his troubling taking of the throne from his cousins during the July Revol...

Marie-Amélie of Naples, Duchesse d'Orléans, with her eldest son, the Duc de Chartres . The other day, I received two thoughtful comment...

At Royal Portraits , this is listed as a painting of Queen Louise of the Belgians, but recently, on a discussion board, I came across a com...

The remarkable, touching story of a Belgian noblewoman who became the beloved princess of another little realm...

As revealed in her Journal (see HERE and HERE ), Marie-Amélie, Queen of the French, was a woman of profound Catholic faith. With such a pio...

1815 was a hard year for Marie-Amélie. Along with the senior Bourbons, the Orléans had returned to France, after Napoleon's fall in 1814...

Princess Henriette of Belgium enriches her account of the life of her great-grandmother, Marie-Amélie of Naples, Queen of the French, with ...

One of the most moving passages in Marie-Amélie's Journal  concerns the death of her third daughter, the baby princess Françoise (1816-...