King Albert II & Queen Paola: Current Events, Part 2 (Mar. 2007 - Aug. 2010)


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Her Majesty looks lovely. We haven't seen her in a while. She looks rested.
I adore seeing her with children. She really has the touch of a grandma with them!

Does anyone know how the King is feeling?
 
Prime Minister of Belgium Guy Verhofstadt, European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pottering and Belgian King Albert II pictured during before a lunch meeting, Wednesday 13 February at the Royal Castle of Laeken-Laken, Brussels. BELGA PHOTO DIRK WAEM


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Queen Paola, and King Albert II of Belgium pictured during a visit to the 'Open Kans' shop (Open opportunity), as the King and Queen visit Bree on the occasion of the 1000 year anniversary of the city, on Thursday 14 February 2008. Open Kans is a shop at a day care center for mentally disabled adults
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Much to do about the Kings views that leaked out:

Wed 13/02/08 - "King Albert wants a new federal constituency. He is suspicious of Prime Minister-in-waiting Yves Leterme and believes his Flemish nationalist ally N-VA poses a danger to the Belgian state". All these claims have been made in the daily De Standaard recently.



The only conclusion can be that leading politicians have been telling reporters what the king said to them.
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Read the entire article from flandersnews here.
 
More pictures fron yesterday's visit to Bree
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Nice to see the King out again! Does this mean that his period of obligatory rest is over now and the King has recovered completely from the surgery had this fall?
 
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Nice to see the King out again! Does this mean that his period of obligatory rest is over now and the King has recovered completely from the surgery had this fall?
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Yes, his period of obligatory rest is over! He picked up his nomal agenda on the 30th of january!
 
Both the King and Queen are looking well. Lovely to see them back out again
 
Did they also visit Radio Dona? I watched them on television yesterday morning and the DJ said she was nervous as the King would be paying them a visit later during the day.
 
Two days ago the King had sugery on one of his eyes for a cataract
The surgery was very successful
 
Marengo said:
Did they also visit Radio Dona? I watched them on television yesterday morning and the DJ said she was nervous as the King would be paying them a visit later during the day.
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Yes they also visited the radio, also the studio where the preselections for "the eurovision songcontest" are and the news studios
 
A bit of older news, in the beginning of February the Gazet van Antwerpen claimed that in 2007, 1600 poor(er) Belgians had sent a letter to Queen Paola, asking for money. 354 of them received a cheque of 200 Euros.
 
Here a video of the King and Queen visiting the VRT.

Thu 21/02/08 - The Belgian royals are often in the media. This is why King Albert and Queen Paola also wanted to have a look behind the scenes.



The CEO of the Flemish public broadcaster VRT, Dirk Wauters, was keen to explain the significant changes that have been made in the organisation in recent months.

A few minutes later viewers on our first TV channel can see how the royals visit Radio Donna. They hear about what kind of hits are played on this pop station.

Head of News, Wim Willems, introduces the monarch to new anchor Martine Tanghe and the news studio.
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Read the entire article from Flandersnews.be here.
 
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As posted by Catherine on the Benelux Royals MB:

According to Het Laatste Nieuws, king Albert has recently made a financial donation to a little Italian church. It was the second donation to this church on the isle Salina that's being restaured.

In 2004 the king celebrated his 70th birthday on the island with a private party for 50 guests. For that occasion the king donated a new floor to the church (180 square metres of handmade ceramic tiles).

In January when Albert was recovering from his hip surgery, Albert and Paola were back on Salina. This time he offered 4 chandeliers.
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The hotel 'George V' in Oostende will be renamed and will be called 'Albert II', after the Belgian King.

Article in Dutch here.
 
RBP Press has a lot of pictures of the church in question, have a look here.

Courtesy: Someone on ATR.
 
HM Queen Paola will baptise the fregat "Louise Marie" at Antwerp today.

It is the former fregat "Willem van der Sande" of the Royal Dutch Navy.

This is the second fregat sold to Belgium,the first,the former "Karel Doorman" is now in service as the "Leopold I".
 
The Queen looks elegant but a bit too low-key for my taste. A hat would have been nice, and a skirt too. But good to see the Queen again. The Netherlands was represented by secretary of state, Jack de Vries (defence).

The Flemish newspaper Standard has an article about the event: look here.

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On another note, don't sailors believe that changing names of ships brings bad luck?
 
HM Queen Paola will baptise the fregat "Louise Marie" at Antwerp

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Queen Paola opened an exhibition of Jan Fabre in the Louvre museum, Paris.

Paola
Paola & Pyramid
Paola & Butterfly

On the television news you heard Paola tell the artists that it was fantastic. Jan Fabre was very positive about the Queen, he told treporters that Paola was really interested and exited about art, and that it wasn't just a form of protocol.
The Queen was escorted by the Flemish and French minister of Culture.

Thu 10/04/08 - On Wednesday Queen Paola attended the opening of a new exhibition of the work of the Flemish artist Jan Fabre in the Paris Louvre. The Flemish Culture Minister Vic Anciaux (Spirit regionalist) and his French counterpart Christine Albanel were also there.



Jan Fabre guided the party round and showed them how his work is being contrasted with old Flemish and Netherlandish masters.
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Read the entire article of Flandersnews here.
 
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The Belgian king receved the first strawberry's of the year at the Royal Palace in Brussels on 7 April 2008:

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