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Belgium on
01 26th, 2010 |
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Just like every year, the Belgian royal family hosts a series of New Year’s receptions throughout January. Today the last one took place, traditionally the reception where most members of the family are present. Today the King, Queen, prince Philippe, princess Mathilde, prince Lorenz, prince Laurent and princess Claire attended and met with the Belgian authorities.
Earlier this month, there were also receptions on January 19th (a reception for the ambassadors) and January 21st (a reception for NATO officials). On the picture accompagning this blog post, you can see the King meeting with Haiti’s ambassador on January 19th. Pictures of the various receptions can be seen here, here and here.
At today’s reception, King Albert also made a speech, as usual. In this speech he referred to the economical crisis, but also to more positive news for the Belgians, for instance Herman von Rompuy becoming the first European president. He also stressed that Belgium has an important role to play in Europe and not in the last place because of its variety of spoken languages.
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Mathilde,
Máxima on
09 21st, 2009 |
no responses Yesterday afternoon, Princess Máxima of the Netherlands and Princess Mathilde of Belgium opened a new museum in the Belgian city of Leuven, M. In the museum visitors can find art pieces that are inspired by the city of Leuven and its rich history. Mathilde and Máxima were also the first two people to visit the exhibition ‘Passion of a Master’ where works of the Flemish medieval painter Rogier van der Weyden are one display.
While both wearing a creation by their favourite fashion designer Edouard Vermeulen, the princesses joined hands to cut the ribbon, which marked the symbolic opening of the museum. A movie of the opening can be seen here and here, for pictures of the event, click here and here.
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Sofia in
Belgium on
09 7th, 2009 |
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Last Wednesday the town of Antoing in the French speaking Wallon Region of southern Belgium hosted the wedding of Prince Edouard de Ligne de la Trémoïlle (32), son of Prince Charles-Antoine and Princess Alyette (née Princess de Croÿ) de Ligne de la Trémoïlle, and Italian actress Isabella Orsini (34), a goddaughter of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. (more…)
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Astrid,
Margarita & Radu on
03 29th, 2009 |
no responses This past Thursday, 26 March, Princess Margarita of Romania celebrated her 60th birthday. Her parents King Michael and Queen Anne posed for photographs together with Margarita and her sisters Elena and Irina and their respective families in the Elisabeta Palace before attending a birthday gala dinner at the CEC Palace in Bucharest.
On Friday the family visited Peleş Castle in Sinaia and in the evening returned to Bucharest for a gala at The Romanian National Opera, over one thousand people, some ordinary citizens with normal opera tickets, got a chance to see some of the best music entertainment the country has to offer. (more…)
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Mathilde on
03 11th, 2009 |
no responses Today, a leopard spotted Mathilde followed Laurentien’s footsteps and visited two schools in Blankenberge, the Sint-Pieterscollege and the Sint-Jozefshandelschool. The princess was there to participate in the reading project ‘Vijf voor vijf’. This project is about the elder students taking care of the younger ones, helping them with their homework and reading to them. Princess Mathilde is the patron of this project.
According to this article in Dutch, the princess attended a reading of the story ‘Pepijn en het duistere parfum’ by Flemish author Katie Velghe. The story is about an angel who visits earth and gets mixed up in all kind of adventures. After that the princess visited a place called ‘het Jolletje’ where the elder students are helping the younger ones out with their homework.
Pictures of princess Mathilde in Blankenberge can be found here.
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Astrid,
Mathilde on
03 3rd, 2009 |
no responses Today, the Belgian princesses Astrid and Mathilde were both out and about in their country. Princess Astrid visited several social projects focussing on poverty in the province of Limburg, where she went to the towns of Maasmechelen and Hasselt. Princess Mathilde attended an international colloquium on Women and sustainable development at the university of Louvain-la-Neuve.
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02 10th, 2009 |
no responses Today princess Mathilde of Belgium made a visit to the university hospital “Léonard de Vinci” in Montigny-le-Tilleul, close to the city of Charleroi. Mathilde visited the revalidation ward of the hospital, which has 150 beds for people who need to revalidate. According to the website of the Belgian royal family, princess Mathilde was really interested learning more about the care program of this program, also because of her background as a speech therapist and psychologist.
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