Crown Prince Philippe and Crown Princess Mathilde: October 2004 - December 2004

[Julia]

New thread for Crown Prince Phillippe and Crown Princess Mathilde. Enjoy!

 

[Julia]

This is continuing thread from http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=134725#post134725 for all news and photos on Phillippe and Mathilde. Enjoy!

 

[Hannelore]

1. Let's start with an old one: Filip and Mathilde at the olympics in Sydney in 2000. (Corbis)

2,3. Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz as a student, on a bagpack trip with friends to Nepal and India.

4. Another photo of Mathilde during her student years.

5. Princess Mathilde at the reception for the olympic athletes. (Face to face)

6,7. Mathilde on holiday, 2002.

8. In Egypt.

 

[Hannelore]

Old photos: Mathilde visiting an exhibition about the role of women in different cultures. In Gent, 2002.

 

[Hannelore]

One of my favorites, Mathilde & Filip at a Unicef meeting with children in 2001. Mathilde was 8 months pregnant with Elisabeth.

 

[Hannelore]

This is Kinga, their dog

 

[Hannelore]

This was princess Mathilde's first solo mission abroad, in 2002. She accompanied a group of young Belgians to the UN children's top in New York.

 

[Hannelore]

A visit to Limburg, a few years ago.

 

[Mette2]

This is Kinga, their dog

Kinga is really working the camera and quite a photogenic dog.
Speaking of animals, you have been quite a busy bee Hannelore, and thank you very much for that. The pictures are absolutely wonderful and a joy to watch.

 

[Julia]

Wonderful photos and may I add that Kinga, the dog is absolutely adorable!?!

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

beautiful portrait of princess Mathilde

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Philippe & Mathilde when they were engaged, during one of their joyeuses entrées. Here in the province Luxemburg.

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

1.Their arrival in Amsterdam, for the Dutch royal wedding in 2002.
2. nice portrait of Philippe and Mathilde

 

[Hannelore]

Filip as a young man

 

[Hannelore]

For those interested: a link with the parents, grandparents and greatgrandparents of Mathilde: all noble.

http://www.angelfire.com/in3/theodore/genealogy/mathilde.html

On the coat of arms of her family and herself

http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-03/mathild2.html

 

[Eliza]

CP Mathilde has real natural beauty. She doesn't have to pile on the makeup, unlike others, her natural beauty shines through. It's wonderful just seeing all her pictures and she and CP Phillippe look so good together as a couple

 

[Hannelore]

A good biography of Mathilde, from the royal archive.


On 4 December 1999 Prince Philippe married Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz, (born 20 January 1973), the daughter of Patrick d’Udekem d’Acoz and Polish born Countess Anne Komorowski who were married in 1971. She is the eldest of five siblings: Marie-Alix, born in 1974, who died in 1997 in a motor vehicle accident along with her maternal grandmother, Elisabeth, born in 1977, Hélène, born in1979, and Charles-Henri born in 1985.

Mathilde, who speaks Dutch, French, Italian and English, is a speech therapist having graduated in 1994. Thereafter she studied psychology. The physically active Mathilde met Prince Philippe at tennis match three years ago and they courted away from the media spotlight. The shy prince and the extroverted Mathilde make a striking couple.

She is extremely popular, compared in the media to Diana, Princess of Wales and Princess Grace of Monaco. Belgians are proud of having their first native born Crown Princess. At her wedding Mathilde wore a long sleeved coatdress closed by ten buttons and Queen Paola’s 19th century family heirloom veil which was fastened to the late Queen Astrid’s diadem. The beautifully crafted veil also had been worn by Queen Paola and Princess Astrid at their weddings. The wedding ceremony was observed by representatives of all the European royal houses. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess with live at the chateau de Laeken, just north of Brussels.

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

1. Swedish state visit to Belgium
2. Visit to the diamond stock market in Antwerp
3. EM to South Corea
5. 70th birthday of king Albert
6,7. Visiting the Rubens house in Antwerp
8. Prewedding concert of Laurent & Claire
9. EM to California
10. At Wimbledon with Kim Clijsters

 

[martha-louise]

waaw, thank you for the pictures of joung prince philippe, his hear is quiet funny

 

[Julia]

What wonderful photos, Catherine! Princess Mathilde is such a lovely person...inside and out! She has a tremendous amount of class...

Btw, who are her favourite designers? I read that she favors Natan and Armani...

 

[GrandDuchess]

Thank you so much Cathérine and Hannelore for all these wonderful pictures! They're all great, and it shows such great sides of both Philippe and Mathilde.

 

[Alisa]

What wonderful photos, Catherine! Princess Mathilde is such a lovely person...inside and out! She has a tremendous amount of class...

Btw, who are her favourite designers? I read that she favors Natan and Armani...

I completely agree!

I think she also occasionally wre a piece or two from Dries van Noten.

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

I've seen her wearing Natan, Armani, Gerald Watelet, Scapa, Olivier Strelli, Yves Dooms. those are the ones she wears most. Some others as well, occasionally.

It's posible she also wore a few things of Dries Van Nooten, I seem to remember something like that...

 

[Hannelore]

Thursday 21 October 2004, during a ceremony marking the start of renovation works in the former veterinary school of Cureghem, Anderlecht, that will host " The International Polar Foundation ". Prince Philippe with Belgian polar explorer Alain Hubert, Federal Minister of Economy and Energy Marc Verwilghen and architect L. Schuiten.

 

[Hannelore]

21/10/2004



The entire royal family attended a concert at the royal palace of Brussels.

The concert was organized by the "festival van Vlaanderen" and the "festival de Wallonie".

The king and queen invited representants of the music world: Belgian composers, members of the queen Elisabeth foundation and finalists of its competition, representants of the royal conservatories and music academies and organizors of music festivals. pictures are from Rex and can't be enlarged...

 

[DKgirls]

Hannelore - thank you so much for posting those pictures!!!! Mathilde looks amazing on them, we love her hair!
Wish we could see them in bigger versions!

 

[Hannelore]

Yes, i'm really disappointed too because there aren't any bigger pics, at least none that I can find on the net

Mathilde's hair looked gorgeous, very twenties style. And she has such a beautiful fair complexion.

here are some more pics from the unicef campaign last week.

 

[Reina]

Have any of you been to the natan site. great fashions, but I am intrigued by the song that is played on his site. do any of you know who the artist is? I bet she is belgian. the site is www.natan.be

 

[Hannelore]

It's from milk and cookies

 

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

photos from the magazine Royals, scanned by Chris.

1. Handing out the Interbrew Baillet-Latour prize
2. Bringing Elisabeth to school