The Cross of Laeken

Top: the mountains overlooking Lake Lucerne; Bottom left: "The King's Cross". Bottom center: perhaps the most famous phot...

Registered in 1993 in Zurich,  The King Albert I Memorial Foundation  is the brainchild of Walter Amstutz, one of the monarch's younger ...

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

Here we see King Albert conversing amicably with his daughter-in-law, Princess Astrid, the future Queen Astrid of Belgium. The two were goo...

Tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of Queen Astrid's death.  Here is a long, but fascinating discussion  (unfortunately only in French) of...

Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians with Princes Xavier and Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma A doomed peace feeler during World War I. The two Bourb...

(*This is a follow-up to previous posts "Tragedy and Irony" and "Louis-Philippe: A Villain?" , so please read those fir...

Another lovely article from Marie-Jacqueline.  The King's feast-day is tomorrow. Fanciful as this may sound, I've long thought tha...

In Amours royales et princières, Patrick Weber writes that the Belgian royal family has had a tradition of brothers with diametrically oppos...

Here are the funerary statues, by Antonin Mercié, of King Louis-Philippe and Queen Marie-Amélie at the Chapelle Royale de Dreux . (Photog...