Tatiana Maria
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Are there expected to be speeches given in remembrance of the late King at the memorial service?
Princess Luisa Maria was added to the list of "Members of the Royal Family" who will be present (ahead of her older sister Princess Maria Laura).
https://www.monarchie.be/fr/agenda/...me-anniversaire-du-deces-de-sa-majeste-le-roi
I would speculate that the Court simply listed the members of the family who are "Prince/ss X" above the rest (except for Princess Léa; she will attend with her untitled son and hence is placed with him), and placed the additional family members based upon the nearness of their relationship to the late King:
La Comtesse Louis-Arnold de Looz-Corswarem, (family of King Baudouin's wife)
L'Archiduc et l'Archiduchesse Charles-Christian et Marie Astrid, (family of King Baudouin's sister)
La Princesse Léa et Mr Renaud Bichara, (family of King Baudouin's half-brother)
La Princesse Maria-Teresa de Bourbon, (family of King Baudouin's brother-in-law)
Le Comte et la Comtesse Jean-Charles Ullens de Schooten Whettnall (family of King Baudouin's uncle)
And I suspect the Court misremembered Maria Laura and Maria-Anunciata's ages (thinking they were the younger sisters) and positioned Marie-Astrid and Margaretha of Luxembourg after their husbands as they chose to share their husbands' titles instead of using their own.
I wonder, though, whether that is the true order of precedence at the memorial service/at the Belgian court.
Princess Luisa Maria was added to the list of "Members of the Royal Family" who will be present (ahead of her older sister Princess Maria Laura).
(*) La Princesse Astrid et le Prince Lorenz, Le Prince Laurent, Le Prince Amedeo et la Princesse Elisabetta, La Princesse Luisa Maria, La Princesse Maria Laura, Le Prince Louis, Le Prince Nikolaus et la Princesse Margaretha, La Princesse Marie-Astrid, La Princesse Maria-Anunciata, Le Prince Josef-Emmanuel, Le Prince Guillaume et la Princesse Sibilla, Le Prince Paul-Louis, Le Prince Léopold, La Princesse Charlotte, La Comtesse Louis-Arnold de Looz-Corswarem, L'Archiduc et l'Archiduchesse Charles-Christian et Marie Astrid, La Princesse Léa et Mr Renaud Bichara, La Princesse Maria-Teresa de Bourbon, Le Comte et la Comtesse Jean-Charles Ullens de Schooten Whettnall
https://www.monarchie.be/fr/agenda/...me-anniversaire-du-deces-de-sa-majeste-le-roi
Indeed, I coulfn't make sense of the order either. Is anyone of them maybe a godchild of king Baudouin or queen Fabiola that might explain their illogical position?
I would speculate that the Court simply listed the members of the family who are "Prince/ss X" above the rest (except for Princess Léa; she will attend with her untitled son and hence is placed with him), and placed the additional family members based upon the nearness of their relationship to the late King:
La Comtesse Louis-Arnold de Looz-Corswarem, (family of King Baudouin's wife)
L'Archiduc et l'Archiduchesse Charles-Christian et Marie Astrid, (family of King Baudouin's sister)
La Princesse Léa et Mr Renaud Bichara, (family of King Baudouin's half-brother)
La Princesse Maria-Teresa de Bourbon, (family of King Baudouin's brother-in-law)
Le Comte et la Comtesse Jean-Charles Ullens de Schooten Whettnall (family of King Baudouin's uncle)
And I suspect the Court misremembered Maria Laura and Maria-Anunciata's ages (thinking they were the younger sisters) and positioned Marie-Astrid and Margaretha of Luxembourg after their husbands as they chose to share their husbands' titles instead of using their own.
I wonder, though, whether that is the true order of precedence at the memorial service/at the Belgian court.
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