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Beautiful photo!
As for women of his life - are there three of them or four?
We will know soon.
 
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Happy Birthday to the soon mother-of-three!???:rose2:
 
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Congratulations! I love his name - Antoine Tau Eduard Adrien. Adrien was a bit of a surprise, though I love Antoine and how his name honours the de Ligne family. He's a beautiful baby.
 
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His full name is Antoine Tau Edouard Adrien.
 
Biri said:
His full name is Antoine Tau Edouard Adrien.
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Well, it's quite hard to read hashtags all together so I missed the Tau part. Easy mistake to make ?
Tau is interesting though, I wonder what the significance of the name is or the meaning behind it.
 
The paternal grandfather of the baby is called Charles-Antoine. While the previous head of the de Ligne's was Prince Antoine (13th P. de Ligne). The 5th prince was also an Antoine.

Anothr Antoine -still only baron de Ligne- was head of the family in the 16th century. He had the nickname 'Great Devil" for his fierceness on the battlefield. As Emperor Charles V refused to award him the Golden Fleece, he started his own parody order: the order of the Wolf.

The other names do not run in the family as much. Neither do they appear frequently in the la Tremouïlle or Croÿ-Roeulx families (though the father of the newborn has a cousin who is called Hadrien).

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Apparently Tau is a name used in Southern Africa, which means "lion". Several rulers of Rolong (territory in present-day Botswana) were named Tau.
 
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Apparently Tau is a name used in Southern Africa, which means "lion". Several rulers of Rolong (territory in present-day Botswana) were named Tau.
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Thank you for the information Marengo. I don't know of any South African connections to the de Ligne family or Orsini family, I wonder why the name was chosen.
 
Apparently they are still at the hospital. Is that normal practice in Belgium (or do they live elsewhere)?
 
Maybe Isabella had scheduled a C-section due to her age?
 
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Apparently they are still at the hospital. Is that normal practice in Belgium (or do they live elsewhere)?
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In Belgium new mothers usually stay at hospital a few days… even if the Birth was uncomplicated. I think it a very good thing, the new mother can rest completely.
 
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And don't forget and the other grandfather too!!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bslj-c2gcuf/
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;) I didn't mean to, it wasn't online yet at that moment, but shared short time later ?
Judging from her own social media presence, I think that Isabella is one of the nobles/royals that check and read posts and threads about her family on the internet. Posting that other photo may have been a reaction, who knows..;)
 
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The family live in the Saint Germain district of Paris according to Isabella's Instagram as she posted multiple videos of the gillets jaunes protesting in her street a week or so before Antoine's birth. They also have a villa in St. Tropez and visit Antoing Castle in Belgium regularly (as well as Isabella's native Italy).
I wonder why she's still at the clinic, I hope that she and the baby are doing well.
 
:previous: Glad to hear that Isabella and Antoine are at home with the rest of the family.
I hope Antoine is alright and that the incubator is nothing too serious.
 
:previous: So sweet - especially how the school puts on some party food for the children on birthdays. It looks as if Athenais had a lovely day!
 
If it's like the Netherlands and Peru, it's the parents -not the school- taking care of the party food (which in the Netherlands is expected to be a lot healthier than what I see in this picture; in Peru it would be more of the same: cake and soda).
 
:previous: Would make more sense. Here in the UK the children themselves often bring in packets of sweets or a birthday cake for their fellow classmates on their birthday. We also had a policy at my secondary school where the teachers gave every student in the class a card and chocolates for their birthday since it was quite a small school; which I always thought was a really nice idea.
 
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