The Snow Princess: Queen Astrid of Belgium, Part 2

[Vanesa]

Thank you for the pics, Lucien. But what sad ones...Queen Astrid is a remind of how a good Queen must be. She is still beloved by Belgian people (even if the youngers never knew her), and I suppose will be.

But how sad the way she died...

Vanesa.

[Furienna]

Yes, and back then, people didn't even use safety belts.

Check out this thread:
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...lgium-153.html

[St. Ingo]

i was really happy that i have met the king and the queen of Sweden

on Öland in the royal cafe in 2000. they are sitting next to us and where really relaxed. quiet nice!

best regards
Ingo

[NotAPretender]

As a member of the Swedish royal family, in what religion would Astrid have been raised? Did she convert to Catholicism to marry into the Belgian Royal family?

[jinigirl]

Originally Posted by NotAPretender

As a member of the Swedish royal family, in what religion would Astrid have been raised? Did she convert to Catholicism to marry into the Belgian Royal family?

Astrid was raised in lutheran faith, she was still a few years married when she converted to Catholicism in the beginning of the 1930th

[NotAPretender]

Thank you, jinigirl. Then I suppose that she and Leopold were married in two separate ceremonies, Lutheran and Catholic?

[Fie]

No not really, the wedding in Sweden was a civil one, although technically a civil wedding does not excist in Sweden. The religious one was the one in Brussels, although it didn't had the complete Roman-Catholic liturgy, as Princess Astrid hadn't converted at that time. She did promise to raise any child that was to be born in the marriage in the Roman-Catholic faith. That meant that Joséphine-Charlotte, Baudouin and Albert were all baptized roman-catholic, so they all received Roman-Catholic godparents (Joséphine-Charlotte had Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg and her uncle Charles; Baudouin had his grandfather Albert I and princess Margrethe of Danmark who married prince René of Bourbon-Parma and Albert had Prince Félix of Luxembourg and Queen Elisabeth).

As Joséphine-Charlotte grew older she also became educated in the Roman-Catholic faith and she started to say an evening prayer with her gouverness. At that point Princess Astrid started to think about converting. She found it strange that she didn't have the same faith as her husband and child. Make that last one plural because at that time she was pregnant for the second time. So she decided to convert and did so somewhere in August 1930, just before she gave birth to Baudouin in September 1930.

[Eloise]

oh She looks like a real beauty and a sweet pearson, and i hope that the story of the real love between she and the king where true, because thats so beautifull. i the story in the beginning was charming, and as a romantic i ask for something like that. and should being so sad for the king leopold that accident, i really don't know how he felt after that. so sad.

[Deezy]

There's a group made about this queen on facebook.
With old pictures, links, films and interessting news.
The name of the group is:
Astrid Sophie Louise Thyra and is made by me.
Kind regards
Deezy