Princess Liliane of Belgium (2nd wife of King Leopold III)

[Marengo]

Yes she was. And there are pictures of king Leopold III's funeral in this thread.

[Paty]

There are pictures of Princess Liliane Funneral?

[Marengo]

A few from ANP:

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[maria-olivia]

Marie-Christine was not at her mother's funeral !

[grandlordbenji16]

what kind of a funeral was that ? As a consort to a king she deserve a mini-state funeral since she was not a queen she cant have a grand state one but this is like a private funeral and the pallbeares should carry her coffins on their shoulders not by the waste because even though she was born a commoner but she was a princess of belgium of her own right by her husband alson a noblewomen of the highest class princess de rethy

[maria-olivia]

We had an interesting film about HRH Princess Lilian Friday for "c’est du Belge*».
Prince Michel de Grèce said she was the most wonderful Princess he never met.
What I learned :
She never met the royal Children before she got married , so she was not their nurse.
She met Leopold III in Ostend , she was helping serving tea. She met also HM Queen Elisabeth and as the King was depressed , his mother thought it should be a good idea they met each other as Lilian was such a positive person.
The unexpected happened : lilian was pregnant . Their religious wedding (she said wrong planning !) was celebrated by Cardinal Van Roey with only Queen Elisabeth and her father Mr Henrik Baels.
Next day she met her mother , she saw the ring and said you are married with who ; Lilian said with leopold , who ? the King, and her mother was so angry about that.

What I learned also that she got a message from Sir Moncada asking to see her. She thought he wanted to dismissed from her scientific Committee but it was to tell her he wanted to marry Esmeralda ! and Alexander said I am married with lea since years.. boum boum..

She had to wait until she was 82 years to be grandmother from Alexandra Moncada.

She really wanted her children having royal weddings...

[Ally Priest]

Originally Posted by maria-olivia

We had an interesting film about HRH Princess Lilian Friday for "c’est du Belge*».
Prince Michel de Grèce said she was the most wonderful Princess he never met.
What I learned :
She never met the royal Children before she got married , so she was not their nurse.
She met Leopold III in Ostend , she was helping serving tea. She met also HM Queen Elisabeth and as the King was depressed , his mother thought it should be a good idea they met each other as Lilian was such a positive person.
The unexpected happened : lilian was pregnant . Their religious wedding (she said wrong planning !) was celebrated by Cardinal Van Roey with only Queen Elisabeth and her father Mr Henrik Baels.
Next day she met her mother , she saw the ring and said you are married with who ; Lilian said with leopold , who ? the King, and her mother was so angry about that.

What I learned also that she got a message from Sir Moncada asking to see her. She thought he wanted to dismissed from her scientific Committee but it was to tell her he wanted to marry Esmeralda ! and Alexander said I am married with lea since years.. boum boum..

She had to wait until she was 82 years to be grandmother from Alexandra Moncada.

She really wanted her children having royal weddings...

Does anyone have a link to watch this? I would love to learn more about the princess!

[Nico]

You can still see this very interesting film with this link :

Regardez en vidéo C'est du Belge - Vendredi 14 Septembre - 20:20 - La Une

[Bine221]

Originally Posted by maria-olivia

I am sad seeing Princess Mathilde wearing always the same tiara .. It is the only she have.. and it is a new one not one belonging to the tiaras from the past.. Could you imagine Queen Paola or Crown Princess Mathilde wearing Queen's Elisabeth wonderful Cartier tiara ..Queen Elisabeth was Baudouin and Albert Grandmother.
Princess Lilian sold this tiara to Cartier again after Leopold III dead !!
How was that possible ???

This is something, I cannot understand either.
Selling important Family Jewels, such as the Belgian Cartier Tiara, which did not "belong" to her, is unforgivable. Some of them has been gifted to Leopolds Mother, some others to Leopolds first wife Astrid. Surely Leopold has given them to his second wife to wear it, but those jewels were not in her POSSESSION.
It is even said, that she sold the Cartier tiara after Leopolds death without saying any single word to Boudouin - so with no possibility to give HIM a chance to "buy the tiara back" into the main line of the Royal Family.
Bye Bine