Grand Duchess Josephine Charlotte photo thread,

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

Wow! Great photo tribute!

[msfroyste]

here is a very interesting obituary about j-c that i found at the gilttering royal events site. here's the link: http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/n.../11/db1102.xml

[drimal]

Her life in a short summary

11th October 1927
Birth of the daughter of Hereditary Prince Leopold III of Belgium and subsequent Queen Astrid. Her brothers are Baudouin and Albert II (both future Kings). Her godmother was Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg!

1935
The very popular Queen Astrid died in a car accident in Küssnacht (Switzerland)

10th May 1940
Germany conquered Belgium. While the government went to exil, the Royal family was staying during the whole occupation at the castle of Laeken.

1944
After the landing of the Allies in the Normandie, the Germans abducted the Royal family first on Hirschstein Castle in Saxony and then to Strobl in Austria where they were liberated on 7th May 1945

8th September 1944
The Belgian government decided that the abducted King were not allowed to exercise his sovereign power any longer and thus Leopold III's brother Prince Charles achieved to the Belgian throne.

10th March 1949
The Princess Josephine-Charlotte was the first member of the Royal family to come back in a devided Belgium considering the Royal subject

12th March 1950
The majority of the Belgian voted for a return of the King Leopold who exercise again his functions on 12th July of the same year.

9th March 1953
Marriage with Hereditary Grand Duc Jean in the cathedral of Luxembourg

17th February 1954
Birth of Princess Marie-Astrid

16th April 1955
Birth of Prince Henri

15th May 1957
Birth of Princess Margaretha and Prince Jean

1958
The Grand Duchess became president of Red Cross Luxembourg

1th May 1963
Birth of Prince Guillaume

1991
The Grand Duchess, a good art expert, was awarded honorary co-chairman of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice

10th January 2005
Death of Grand Duchess Josephine Charlotte


Some pics of forumuser Hannelore's photo collection (thank you very much Hannelore for this large picture collection you shared with us!:) )
Here is the link to more of her fantastic pics:
Grand Duke Jean & Grand duchess Joséphine-Charlotte, news and picture thread

1. with her beautiful mother Astrid
2.and 3. two sweet pics of Josephine-Charlotte
4. with her mother again
5. with her mother, brother Baudouin and little Albert
6. and 7. with brother Baudouin
8. and 9. making her communion
10. as a young lady

[drimal]

11. another picture of the young and beautiful Grand Duchess
12. to 15. with Grand Duke Jean before the children were born
16. to 20. the elegant Grand Duchess

Again thank you Hannelore:) for your beautiful pics in another thread of this forum and I hope that you don't take me wrong that I took this 20 pics of your large collection to post them here

Here is the link to more of these beautiful pics:
Grand Duke Jean & Grand duchess Joséphine-Charlotte, news and picture thread
The pics are on that page and also on the pages which follow!

[HMQueenElizabethII]

Grand Duchess look so elegant.Thanks everybody for posting pics.

[Amilia]

She is such a beautiful woman , like her mother

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

She does look a little like her mother.

[msfroyste]

wow, she was very lovely. she and cate blanchet really do resemble each other.

[Ephram]

Courtesy of Corbis

[drimal]

The private Josephine-Charlotte

She was perhabs a shy person but not without emotions!
She had many interest, was a hobby filmer, an expert in art (was awarded honorary co-chairman of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice in 1991!:) ) and had a large collection of porcelaine.

1. and 2. the hobby fimer Josephine-Charlotte
3. going on to an art exhibition
4. with her husband Grand Duke Jean
5. with her five grown up children on the beginning of 1980
6. a beautiful picture of 1976
7. an earlier picture with little Marie Astrid and little Henri
8. as a proud grandmother on July 1990 in Cabasson
9. with her husband and her grandchildren Guillaume, Felix, Louis, Sebastien and Alexandra in 2000
10. the Grand Ducal couple before the throne achievement of son Henri

[drimal]

11. with Queen Silvia and King Carl Gustav of Sweden and the parents (?)
12.to 14. with Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
15. the faithful Grand Duchess in the Vatican in 1999 with the family (apart from Henri and Maria Teresa and their children, their are also Prince Guillaume and his wife Sibilla Weiler)
16. on 29.7.1995 on the Côte d'Azur with (former) GD Jean, GD Henri, GD Maria Teresa, Princess Marie Astrid and husband Archduke Carl Christian of Austria and all their children
17. swimming in the Mediterranean water on 9.8.1994 :)
18.to 20. on the 75th birthday of Grand Duke Jean in January 1996 with the whole family

[drimal]

21.to 24. on the civil marriage of son Guillaume and Sibilla Weiler in Selestat on 8.9.1994
25. on the first communion of grandchild Sebastien on 14.5.2000
26.to 29. on the first communion of grandchild Alexandra on 9.5.1998
30. on 11.11.1999 the day of Guillaume's 18th birthday

[drimal]

31. and 32. during the throne achievement of son Henri on 7.10.2000 (that was her last day as Grand Duchess! )
33. and 34. on Guillaume's Sandhurst graduation on 9.8.2002 (I love that last picture!:o )

[rere]

Thanks, Drimal.

1. A happy grandmother
2. Can you I.D. whose in this picture?

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

So she was shy... that would explain Guillaume and Felix's behaviours alot.
But I can't figure out who is in that pic, but it does look rather old.

[drimal]

@rere:
Well, this picture is dating from July 1990 in Cabasson.
In front of the Grand Ducal couple are:

Guillaume, Maria Anunciata, Marie Astrid, Louis, Joseph-Emanuel and Felix.

The names written in Italic are the children of Princess Margaretha (Henri's sister) and Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein.

Note: Alexandra and Sebastien were not yet born at that time.