Crown Prince Phillippe and Crown Princess Mathilde Current Events: May 2005-Jun 2005

[Hannelore]

May 24th : prince Filip

Opening of the KunstenFestivaldesArts (Art Festival)

May 24th : prince Filip & princess Mathilde (with other members of the family)

Lunch for the members of the jury of the queen Elisabeth contest

May 25th : prince Filip & princess Mathilde (with queen Fabiola)

Finale of the queen Elisabeth competition for violin

May 26th : prince Filip & princess Mathilde

Gala night of the king Boudewijn fund in Antwerp

May 26th : prince Filip

Meeting with students who participate in the student exchange programs of the prince's fund

May 27th : princess Mathilde

Hands out the honorary doctorate to Mrs Carol Bellamy, Unicef director

May 29th : prince Filip

Gives the start of the 20 kms of Brussels (marathon)

May 31st : prince Filip

Visit to the trainingcenter for alternative studies in Charleroi and to the scientific park Crealys in Gembloux

June 2nd : princess Mathilde

visit to the Triodos Bank in Brussels (cfr. microcredits)

[Mette2]

From Van Parys Media.

Their visit to Korbeek-Lo April 30th 2005

[Mette2]

From Seeger, Newscom, and Getty Images.

Old pictures of Philippe and old pictures of Philippe with Mathilde.

[HMQueenElizabethII]

Thanks you so much for these lovely pics,Catherine.

[Lisa]

Please, Catherine, I'm Lisa. :) I'd really like to know where you fin all these beautiful pictures from Mathilde (where it's written Face to face). I don't succed to find them . Thank you so much!:)

Originally Posted by Cathérine Bergeyck

They visited the company 'Ronceaux' that emplois a lot of people in the region. After that they went to the horticultural and agricultural school, greeted the crowd at the market square, went to the town hall for an official reception and had lunch at a local toprestaurant.

Especially for the pupils of the agricultural school this visit meant a lot, even though their school has a great reputation and they're hard workers, other (normal grammar)schools often look down on them.

[Danielle]

Hi Lisa. I'm not Cathérine, but the website for Face to Face is: http://www.facetoface.de/wgcms/ I think you have to register to view the images, unfortunately. :(

[Mette2]

From fotomarktplatz/viennareport.

Philippe and Mathilde's visit to Los Angeles February 2003.

[Lisa]

:(
Well, Danielle, you were right. You must register for this website but are some of you registered or do you suceed without. Thanks to answer me soon. Thanks again Danielle.:)

Originally Posted by Danielle

Hi Lisa. I'm not Cathérine, but the website for Face to Face is: http://www.facetoface.de/wgcms/ I think you have to register to view the images, unfortunately. :(

[Hannelore]

This particular photo show Filip & Mathilde 1 or 2 days before their wedding, they were at the airport to pick up Naruhito and Masako of Japan, good friends of the couple.

[Emily]

Thanks for the picture Hannelore. Can you write more about the friendship of Naruhito/Masako and the CPs of Belgium? I am curious to know what you know of their friendship. Do they socialize apart from formal functions? Having read that Masako feels constrained in her world travels by the Imperial Household, I have wondered the extent to which the Japanese CPs know or socialize with their European counterparts. And Mathilde, through photos, seems like such a gentle and kind person, I should think she would be a very sympathetic friend to Masako and her difficulties.

[Hannelore]

Originally Posted by Emily

Thanks for the picture Hannelore. Can you write more about the friendship of Naruhito/Masako and the CPs of Belgium? I am curious to know what you know of their friendship. Do they socialize apart from formal functions? Having read that Masako feels constrained in her world travels by the Imperial Household, I have wondered the extent to which the Japanese CPs know or socialize with their European counterparts. And Mathilde, through photos, seems like such a gentle and kind person, I should think she would be a very sympathetic friend to Masako and her difficulties.

The Belgian and Japanese royal families have been good friends for a few generations already. I don't know very much about the friendship between the two couples. Before his wedding, Filip travelled various times to Japan and got really fascinated by it, he said it's the combination of very modern technologies and very ancient traditions that make Japan such a special and interesting country. With his fund he also stimulates young Belgian business men and women to work a few months in Japan, a sort of exchange program. This part of his fund doesn't get a lot of media atention, because it's on such a small scale, but he's personally involved with it and meets the participants every year before they leave and when they come back.

[Emily]

Thank you, Hannelore! I appreciate the information.

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Prince Philippe will preside a Belgian trade mission to Japan starting on the 11th of June. Mathilde won't accompany him this time.

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

25/05/2005

Together with queen Fabiola, Philippe & Mathilde attended one of the finale session of the queen Elisabeth competition

Video:

http://www.vrtnieuws.net/nieuwsnet_m...x.html?video_1

[marezdote]

Yesterday from Seeger Press.

[marezdote]

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[Larzen]

I love the big close up of Mathildes engagement ring (you have to wonder how close the photographer was ), it is vey beautiful, Philippe has good taste in jewellery:)

Mathilde looks very elegant as usual but Im really not sure about her pants, somehow they remind me about a pair of similar ones with cow pattern she used some years ago. The hairdo is very flattering:)

[HMQueenElizabethII]

I really like her hair style.It' really lovely.