Belgian Royal Calendar

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December 2012

December 1st
Princess Mathilde will meet the families and relatives of soldiers who are currently involved in peacekeeping operations during the Journée Nationale Info-Familles in Peutie

December 3rd
Princess Mathilde will attend the conference "Children's Rights and Business Principles" in Brussels

December 4th
Prince Laurent will attend the inauguration of Plan Cold, a temporary shelter for homeless people and their dogs in Brussels

December 5th - 8th
Princess Mathilde will take part in an UNICEF mission to Haiti

December 5th
Queen Paola will attend a conference of experts and the launch of the "Global Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse Online". "Global Alliance" is a joint initiative of the European Union and the United States

December 6th
Queen Paola will attend the Christmas concert of the Queen Paola Foundation

December 12th
Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde will attend "Kim's Thank You Games" by ex-tennis player Kim Clijsters in Anvers

December 18th
Prince Philippe will attend the Brussels Sustainable Development Summit 2012

December 18th
Princess Mathilde will visit the "Koninklijk Atheneum/Centrum Leren in Werken" in Leuven for a presentation of the "business plan" for students

December 20th
Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde will pay a visit to the province Brabant Wallon

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January 2013

January 10th
Prince Philippe will open the 91st edition of the European Motor Show (Salon de l'Auto) at Brussels Expo

January 17th
Princess Mathilde will attend the launch of the production of the stamps honouring her 40th birthday

January 17th
Queen Paola will attend a gala concert of the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels

January 21st
Princess Mathilde will attend the event "First meeting of the Transatlantic Forum on Inclusive Early Years : Quality Early Childhood Services for All : Addressing Disparities in Access for Children from Migrant and Low-Income Families" in Gand

January 25th
Princess Astrid will attend a roundtable meeting on "Clinical research in Belgium and the role of philanthropy" at the King Baudouin Foundation in Brussels

January 27th
Prince Philippe will attend a ceremony on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust held at the Great Synagogue of Brussels

January 28th
Princess Claire will attend a show of the Sparadrap Circus at the Institure de la Sainte Famille d'Helmet in Schaerbeek

January 30th
Queen Paola will attend the launch of the 10th "Safer Internet Day" at the offices of Child Focus in Brussels

January 31st
Princess Mathilde will attend the first National Conference on "Financial Literacy" at the Palais d'Egmont in Brussels

January 31st
Prince Philippe will attend the first interdisciplinary conference on Sustainable Development in Namur

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February 2013

February 2nd
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend the 3rd Magritte du Cinéma award ceremony in Brussels

February 4th
Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde will attend a lunch as part of the annual Diplomatic Contact Days in Brussels

February 5th
Princess Mathilde in her role as Honorary President of UNICEF Belgium will attend a screening of the film Kinshasa Kids about street children at the Cinema Vendôme in Brussels

February 9th
Prince Laurent will attend the presentation of the evolutionary farde Info for patients with a metabolic disease at the University Hospital Antwerp

February 19th
The Royal Family will attend a mass in memory of the deceased members of the Royal Family in the Church of Our Lady in Laeken

February 20th
Princess Astrid will attend the award ceremony of the National Trophy Victor Boin in Hofstade

February 20th
King Albert and Queen Paola will view the exhibition "Hôpital de la Reine - Croix Rouge, L'Océan et la Panne 1914-1918" in La Panne

February 25th
Prince Philippe will hand out the Sustainable Development Award in Brussels

February 27th
Prince Philippe will meet with leaders of the Federation of Belgian brewers and will take part in a working meeting on the beer industry along with its main representatives

February 27th
Princess Mathilde will attend a round table meeting on breast cancer in collaboration with the "Breast International Group (BIG) in Brussels

February 28th
Prince Philippe will meet officials of Synerjob in Anderlecht, an association of public employment services and training in Belgium, and he'll meet with young people looking for a job

February 28th
Queen Paola will view a retrospective of works by Jan Fabre to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the "Museum für Kunst-Zeitgenössische ikob" (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Eupen

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March 2013

March 4th
Princess Astrid will attend a concert organized by the Belgian National League Multiple Sclerosis at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels

March 5th
Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde will visit the province Flemish Brabant

March 5th
Prince Philippe will attend the ceremony "Righteous Among the Nations" together with the President of Israel Shimon Peres at the Palais d'Egmont in Brussels

March 7th
Queen Paola will visit the Athénée Royal Marche-Barvaux-Bomal in Marche-en-Famenne

March 7th
Princess Mathilde will vist La Hulpe on the occasion of the International Day of Women

March 12th
Princess Mathilde will hand out the award of the Foundation Pathophysiology Prof. Lucien Dautrebande in Brussels

March 12th
King Albert and Queen Paola will visit the Don Bosco Institute and the "TSO / BSO / DBSO SPWoluwe-school Don Bosco" in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

March 14th
Queen Paola will attend a meeting of the Sponsorship Committee of Missing Children Europe, the European Federation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children in Brussels

March 16th - 22nd
Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde will be on an economic mission in Thailand

March 19th
Princess Astrid will attend the 5th "ECF Princess Margriet Award" ceremony in Brussels

March 20th
King Albert and Queen Paola will visit Namur on the occasion of 75th anniversary of the Provincial Hotel School

March 27th
Princess Mathilde will hand out the annual "Womed Award" in Brussels

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April 2013

April 13th
Prince Lorenz as Honorary President will attend the closing session of the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Association of Historic Houses and Gardens of Belgium (ARDH & JB​​) at the Château de Grand-Bigard

April 16th
Princess Mathilde will attend a symposium on supporting grieving children who faced the sudden death of a loved one at the Erasmus High School in Brussels

April 17th
Princess Mathilde will hand out the InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize 2013 in Brussels

April 18th
Princess Astrid will attend the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the "Scandinavian School School Brussels - Reine Astrid" in Waterloo

April 18th
King Albert will attend a workshop about emergency preparedness in Ghlin

April 19th
Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde will visit the Province of Luxembourg

April 21st
Prince Laurent will attend the ceremonies commemorating the St George's Day to mark the 95th anniversary of the raid on Zeebrugge

April 22nd - 26th
Princess Astrid as Special Representative of the "Roll Back Malaria (RBM)" partnership will visit Japan and Cambodia

April 25th
King Albert and Queen Paola will visit the Military Hospital Queen Astrid in Neder-Over-Heembeek

April 26th
Princess Claire will view the Amaryllis exhibition at the Château de Beloeil and will award the prizes for the competition of the best floral decorations

April 28th
Princess Claire will attend a mass, followed by the start of the Tour de France for trail-bodied and physically disabled people at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers in Ixelles

April 29th
Queen Paola will attend the presentation of the art book "Homage to Europe" in Brussels

April 30th
Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde will attend the inauguration ceremony of King Willem-Alexander in Amsterdam

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May 2013

May 3rd
Princess Mathilde will attend a breakfast meeting at the King Baudouin Foundation and will award the Princess Mathilde Award 2013 in Brussels

May 7th
Princess Mathilde will speak at the opening session of the "Meeting of the Belgian Development Cooperation" at the Egmont Palace in Brussels. The debate will focus on "The development framework post 2015: Issues, Challenges, Opportunities."

May 8th
Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend the official opening ceremony of the 32nd edition of the National Games "Special Olympics" in Ghent

May 11th
Queen Fabiola will attend the last session of the first round of the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition 2013 in Brussels

May 13th
Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde will make an official visit to the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland

May 14th
Princess Mathilde will attend a conference on the role of the Belgian cooperation in basic education in developing countries entitled "Basic Education for Change" - it will take place in Brussels

May 14th
Queen Fabiola will attend a session of the semi-final of the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition 2013 in Brussels

May 14th
Prince Philippe will particpate in the second Masterclass Belgodyssée in Brussels

May 14th
Princess Astrid will attend the award ceremony of the award "Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI)" in Brussels

May 15th
Prince Philippe will attend the opening session of the 11th "European Business Summit" in Brussel - this year's theme is "Unlocking Industrial Opportunities, an EU Strategy for Competitiveness?"

May 15th
Queen Fabiola will attend a session of the semi-final of the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition 2013 in Brussels

May 16th
Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde will attend an exceptionally delivery of 15 scholarships of Vocatio as part of the 50th anniversary of the Foundation in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

May 16th
Princess Astrid will hand out the prizes of the Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation (FMRE) - 2013 in Brussels

May 16th
Princess Mathilde will visit the photographic exhibition "Addressing all to education" in connection with the launch of the Education Week in Brussels

May 17th
Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde will be present at the official opening of the new extension of Technopolis in Mechelen

May 22nd
The Royal Family will attend the King Baudouin International Development Award ceremony in Brussels

May 23rd
Princess Mathilde will attend an international congress on mental health and juvenile justice in Brussels

May 23rd
Princess Astrid will attend an academic meeting organized by the St. Luke Foundation at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Brussels

May 24th
King Albert and Queen Paola will inaugurate the monument "Vindictive" in Oostende and will visit the festival "Oostende voor Anker"

May 27th
Princess Astrid will attend the award ceremony of the Federal Prize of the fight against poverty - 2013 in Brussels

May 29th
Queen Paola will hand out the Queen Paola Prize 2013 for education in Brussels

May 30th
Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend the 52nd ceremony of the Rose d'Or award in Brussels