The Snow Princess: Queen Astrid Of Belgium, Part 1

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

My pleasure, Astrid!

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

A happy mother with her daughter

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Astrid as a young woman.


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[Cathérine Bergeyck]

wedding picture of Astrid and Leopold.

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Around 1915, Astrid is the girl in white, 2nd from the right.

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[Hannelore]

with Josephine-Charlotte on a boat

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[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Leopold and the beautiful Astrid in 1930, on one of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the existence of Belgium

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[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Going for a walk with her daughter in the pram, on the front at Ostend, 1930.

Princess Astrid liked to take care of her children herself (something unseen at Belgian court in those days)

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[Cathérine Bergeyck]

1.Astrid around the time of her confirmation (18 years old)
2.Holding flowers
3.Engaged to crownprince Leopold of Belgium, picture taken in her home in
Sweden

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

1.With Baudouin and Joséphine-Charlotte, in the royal greenhouses of Laeken
2.Hugging her daughter
3.with prince Albert
4.During a visit to Congo

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

1.With Leopold, king Albert I and her daughter in the park of Laeken
2.Astrid and Leopold
3.Kissing a child, during one of her Joyeuses Entrées

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

1.beautiful astrid
2.photo of Astrid with her autograph
3.Leopold and Astrid on their wedding day

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

1.With Leopold, 1934 or 1935
2.with her first child
3.At an official duty
4.Astrid's mother, princess Ingeborg, with Joséphine-Charlotte

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

1.Astrid as a child, with her sisters and brother (she's the one kneeling on the floor)
2.Astrid's parents with Joséphine-Charlotte and Baudouin
3.Astrid as a child, with her mother, princess Ingeborg of Denmark

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Astrid and Leopold

Don't you think Astrid looks like Mathilde in this picture?

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[Dennism]

Thanks for all of the photos, Cathérine. They are great.

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Some more pictures of Astrid

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

1. Astrid with her son Albert
2. Astrid with Leopold and her brother and sister in law, princess Marie Jose and prince Charles.

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

At expo 1935

 

[Hannelore]

15 years old

 

[Hannelore]

Astrid and Leopold visiting a Belgian church in London, 1933.

 

[Hannelore]

Astrid at her arrival in Belgium, embracing Leopold.

source: Koninklijk Filmarchief.

 

[Hannelore]

On her wedding day in 1926. She's preparing to leave for the St. Michiel en St. Goedele cathedral in Brussels.

source: koninklijk filmarchief.

 

[Hannelore]

Leopold and Astrid at an aviation show in Evere. Leopold III was a pilote himself (see second photo).

 

[Hannelore]

A souvenir from their wedding: a box with soap with royal portraits on them!!

 

[Hannelore]

painting of queen Astrid by Leon De Smet (1881-1966). This painting hangs in the townhall of Antwerpen. Under it, a dress is kept: the one she wore on her joyeuse entrée as new queen of the Belgians in 1934 in Antwerpen.

 

[Hannelore]

Queen Astrid and king Leopold at the baptism of princess Hélène d'Orléans in 1934. Astrid was her godmother.

 

[Hannelore]

princess Astrid on board of the boat Fylgia, that brought her to her new country, Belgium.

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

15 years old, with her sister Märtha

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

with leopold