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Old 06-05-2006, 05:10 PM
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Default The Snow Princess: Queen Astrid Of Belgium, Part 2

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Originally Posted by Lisele
Thank you for a tribute in words and in pictures to a wonderful woman that was cut down in the prime of her life, leaving a husband, 3 children under 10 and another on the way that died with her, at the beginning of her husband's reign. Truly a tragic tale. I wonder if her children even vividly remember her they were so young :(

I don't know if any of you noticed but 52 years later, another princess died in an automobile accident roughly the same time of the year? Chlling coincidence or history repeating itself.
Astrid was pregnant?
I didn't know that.
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