Belgian Royal Calendar

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2023

January 2023​

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January 12th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a New Year's reception for the chiefs of the diplomatic missions in Belgium

January 13th
King Philippe will attend the 100th edition of the Salon de l’Automobile in Brussels

 

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February 2023​

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February 2nd
Queen Mathilde will visit OXFAM, Magasin du Monde, in Mechelen that celebrates its 50th anniversary this year

February 6th - 8th
Queen Mathilde will pay a working visit to Bangladesh in her capacity as the United Nations Development Goals (SDG) Advocate

 

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March 2023​

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March 2nd
King Philippe will visit "Recyclart" in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean

March 14th - 16th
Queen Mathilde and Princess Elisabeth will pay a working visit to Egypt

March 22nd - 27th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will pay a state visit to South Africa

 

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April 2023​

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April 11th - 14th
King Philippe will visit the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana

 

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May 2023​

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May 4th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the province of West Flanders

May 5th
King Philippe and Princess Elisabeth will attend a reception at Buckingham Palace in London prior to the coronation of King Charles

May 6th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the coronation of King Charles at Westminster Abbey in London

May 9th - 11th
Queen Mathilde as Honorary President of UNICEF Belgium will take part in a UNICEF mission to Vietnam

May 9th
King Philippe will visit the 'Royal Escort on Horseback' in their new stables and training complex at the Wisbecq horse stud farm in
Rebecq

May 10th
King Philippe will visit the Jes project in Gent

May 13th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a garden party at Laekn on the occasion of the ten years of King Philippe's reign

May 13th
Princess Claire will visit the Schaerbeek branch of the learning project ToekomstATELIERdelAvenir

May 21st - 25th
Princess Astrid will preside over an economic mission to Senegal

May 25th
King Philippewill visite the Aptaskil bio-pharmaceutical training center in Seneffe

May 30th
Queen Mathilde will be awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Hasselt

May 31st
Queen Paola, King Albert and Princess Claire will attend the ceremony of the Queen Paola Prize for Teaching

 

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June 2023​

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June 1st
King Philippe and Princess Elisabeth will attend the wedding of Crown Prince Hussein and Rajwa Khalid Al-Seif in Amman, Jordan

June 14th
King Philippe will visit the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center in Amman as part of a Belgian military exercise in Jordan

June 16th
Princess Astrid will attend the festivities for the 100th anniversary of the Brugmann University Hospital Center in Laeken

June 20th - 22nd
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will welcome King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima for a state visit in Belgium

 

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July 2023​

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July 3rd
Queen Mathilde will visit the annual Kom op tegen Kanker/Stand up against Cancer summer camp at the provincial domain Dommelhof in Pelt

July 4th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the inauguration of their busts at the Senate

July 21st
The Royal Family will attend the National Day Celebrations

 

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August 2023​

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August 8th
Queen Paola with Prince Aymeric and Prince Nicolas will attend the 67th commemoration of the tragedy in the Belgian coal mine of Bois du Cazier

 

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September 2023​

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September 3rd
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend a mass at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen during which Luc Terlinden will officially assume his duties as head of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels

September 11th - 12th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host the 19th Informal Summit of Heads of State of German-speaking countries in Brussels and Eupen

 

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October 2023​

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October 2nd
Queen Mathilde will visit the new facilities of the Jules Bordet Institute on the Erasmus campus of the Free University of Brussels in Anderlecht

October 3rd
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive the Mayors of the different cities and towns of Belgium for a reception at Laeken Palace

October 4th
King Philippe will receive Salome Nino Zourabichvili, President of Georgia

October 12th
Princess Astrid will attend the "International Conference on Sustainable Development" organized by Daikin Europe in Ghent

October 19th - 28th
Princess Astrid will preside over an economic mission to the Commonwealth of Australia

 

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November 2023​

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November 7th
Queen Mathilde will chair a roundtable meeting on the theme of well-being and mental health at work, at the headquarters of Realco

 

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December 2023​

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December 1st
Queen Mathilde will attend the Invisible Youth European Summit at the Basilica in Koekelberg

December 5th - 7th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will pay a state visit to Germany

 

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2024

January 2024​

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January 10th
King Philippe will visit the "Train Hostel" for homeless people managed by the Red Cross

January 11th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a New Year's reception for the chiefs of the diplomatic missions in Belgium

January 12th
Queen Mathilde will visit the non-profit organization Visual Disability Employment Training in Montignies-sur-Sambre

January 16th - 18th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

January 30th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend the New Year's reception for the main authorities of the country at Laeken Castle

January 31st
King Philippe will visit the Pôle Espace in Uccle, a cooperation center of the Royal Belgian Institute of Space Aeronomy, the Royal Meteorological Institute and the Royal Observatory of Belgium

 

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February 2024​

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February 1st
King Philippe will visit Ferme Nos Pilifs in Neder-over-Heembeek, an adapted work company that celebrates its 40th anniversary this year

February 6th
King Philippe will visit the DO! centre for entrepreneurship at Ghent University

February 6th
Queen Mathilde will pay a visit to GoodPlanet Belgium in Brussels

February 8th
King Philippe will attend the New Year's reception of the Foreign Trade Agency in Val Duchesse

February 8th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Mik’Ados project for young people of the AniMagique organization in Villers-la-Ville

February 9th
Queen Mathilde will visit the primary school GBS Salto in Oud-Turnhout as part of the "Flemish Week against school bullying 2024"

 

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March 2024​

March 3rd - 6th
Queen Mathilde will pay a working visit to Côte d'Ivoire in her capacity as Defender of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

March 8th
Queen Mathilde will view the exhibition "Histoire de ne pas rire. Surrealism in Belgium" at the Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, in Brussels

March 12th
Queen Mathilde will attend a reception to celebrate International Women's Day hosted by Queen Camilla at Buckingham Palace in London

March 13th
King Philippe will visit the POLBRU CADETS project of the Brussels Capital Ixelles police zone

March 13th
Queen Mathilde will visit the secondary school GO!4cITy in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek to attend a workshop of "Teach for Belgium"

March 15th
Queen Mathilde will visit the children and adolescents ward of the Saint Joseph psychiatric hospital in Bilzen (Limburg)

March 18th
Queen Mathilde will attend the 3rd edition of the European Humanitarian Forum in Brussels

March 19th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the Province of East Flanders

 

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April 2024​

April 16th - 18th
The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg will pay a state visit to Belgium

April 29th - May 3rd
King Philippe will pay an official visit to Namibia