The Cross of Laeken

The archives of the Catholic Herald contain a number of interesting articles on the Belgian monarchy, particularly King Leopold III and his...

The two wives of Leopold III are perennially compared, with Astrid usually being praised and Lilian blamed. (I once saw a really nasty c...

One of the grandest celebrations of Argenteuil's days of glory as a residence of King Leopold III and his second family was the ...

A description by Phyllis Jenkins of the Glasgow Herald , dated April 9, 1936, less than eight months after Queen Astrid's death i...

In Leo XIII: A Light from Heaven  (1961) , Brother William J. Kiefer, S.M. discusses the time that Joachim Pecci, future Pope Leo XIII, sp...

Geoffrey Bocca gives a dramatic account of the reaction of Governor Baels to the news of Lilian's engagement to Leopold III, contradicti...

Since I recently posted on Paola, here is the other Queen of the Belgians who suffered serious marital unhappiness. Unlike Paola, though,...

In his study of European monarchy in the twentieth century, Geoffrey Bocca gives a good description of Princess Lilian's cheerful c...

Gem has a lovely pictorial essay on the Italian beauty who married the youngest son of Leopold and Astrid.