Belgian Royal Calendar

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August 2014​

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August 3rd
King Philippe will attend two memorial ceremonies in Thimister and Loncin to mark the centenary of the First World War

August 4th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend ceremonies commemorating the 100th anniversary of the First World War in Liège, Leuven and Mons

August 23rd
King Philippe will be present at a ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of the First World War in Dinant

August 30th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the celebrations on the occasion of 200 years of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Maastricht

 

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September 2014​

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September 2nd
Prince Laurent will attend a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the town of Rumes

September 9th
King Philippe will welcome the Olympic Flame as it passes the Place des Palais in Brussels. The Special Olympics European Summer Games are held in Belgium from September 9 to 20, 2014

September 12th
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend the opening session of the Heritage Days in Wallonia

September 13th
Queen Mathilde will attend the opening ceremony and will officially declare the Special Olympics European Summer Games open

September 16th
Queen Mathilde will visit "Social Relais du Pays de Liège" that helps people in social distress in Liege

September 17th
King Philippe will visit Select Actiris, Brussels' Regional Employment Office

September 18th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend informal meetings with Heads of German States in Bad Doberan, Warnemünde and Rostock, Germany

September 18th
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend a gala evening of the Support Committee of the Province of West Flanders for the King Baudouin Foundation

September 19th
Princess Astrid will attend the opening of the Belgian Chocolate Village Museum

September 20th
Princess Astrid will attend the closing ceremony of the Special Olympics European Summer Games

 

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October 2014​

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October 2nd
Queen Mathilde will visit the exhibition "Sensation and Sensuality - Rubens and his legacy" at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels

October 3rd
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the inauguration of the temporary pontoon bridge across the River Scheldt near Steen Fortress, a reconstruction of the 1914 pontoon bridge - it's part of the commemorations of the First World War

October 4th
Princess Claire will attend the 50th anniversary celebrations of the establishment of the Cultural Center of Chaumont-Gistoux

October 4th
King Philippe will attend the commemoration of the centenary of the First World War at Sainte-Adresse, France

October 4th
Prince Laurent will be present at the symposium "Panathlon International" in Ghent on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the declaration of Panathlon on the ethics of young athletes

October 7th
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the opening of the University Department of Paediatrics of the Centre Hospitalier Régional de la Citadelle Liège

October 8th
King Philippe will attend the festivities in Ternaaien and Vroenhoven marking the 75th anniversary of the Albert Canal

October 9th
Queen Mathilde will attend a conference on the theme "Challenges in Visual Rehabilitation" in Antwerp

October 12th
Prince Laurent will attend a memorial ceremony in Diksmuide in honour of the French Marines who fell during the First World War

October 17th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the event Lichtfront Ploegsteert. Lichtfront represents the front line in 1914 that will be illuminated by 8,400 torchbearers

October 18th - 25th
Princess Astrid will be on an economic mission to Colombia and Peru

October 23rd
King Philippe will attend the 10th anniversary celebrations of Erasmus Belgica in Brussels

October 24th
King Philippe as Grand Master of the Order of Leopold will attend a meeting held on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Association of the Order of Leopold at the National Palace in Brussels

October 24th
Queen Mathilde will visit the restoration workshop of the association Music Fund in Marche-en-Famenne on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the organisation

October 24th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the world premiere of Shellshock, a production of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels

October 25th
Prince Laurent will present the award to the winner of the Most Beautiful Zinneke Contest organized by The Prince Laurent Foundation

October 25th
Prince Laurent will attend the "World Soundtrack Awards" ceremony in Ghent

October 27th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will give a dinner for David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, and his wife

October 28th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the ceremonies in Nieuwpoort and Ypres to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the flooding of the Yser plain

October 31st
Prince Laurent will attend the exhibition "The Cartoonist" in Brussels

 

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November 2014​

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November 5th
King Philippe will inaugurate the Technovation Centre of AGC Glass Europe, the new research and innovation centre of the company

November 6th
King Philippe will - together with Queen Elizabeth II - inaugurate the Flanders Fields Memorial Garden in London

November 9th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the closing concert of Thousand Voices for Peace in Brussels

November 15th
Queen Paola, Princess Astrid, Prince Lorenz, Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend the King's Feast

November 18th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a reception for recipients of royal honours

November 19th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the Province of Namur

November 20th
Queen Mathilde will attend the festival of children's rights in Auderghem, organized on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

November 20th
King Philippe will pay a working visit to the Defence

November 21st
Queen Mathilde will participate in the "Reading aloud" week organized by the "Stichting Lezen" and will visit the Nursing Home "Ter Durme" in Lokeren to read some stories to the elderly residents

November 22nd - 28th
Princess Astrid will be on an economic mission to Malaysia and Singapore

November 24th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive new warrant holders of the court

 

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December 2014​

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December 1st
Queen Mathilde will attend the official grants ceremony of the Foundation against Cancer at the Palais des Academies in Brussels

December 2nd
Queen Mathilde will visit the company Vanparys in Evere that celebrates its 125th anniversary and she will meet members of the Royal Belgian Association of Chocolate Industries, Praline, Biscuit and Confectionery (Choprabisco)

December 3rd
Prince Laurent will attend the musical Brabançonne at the Kinepolis Antwerp

December 3rd
Prince Lorenz will assist at the installation of the new Heritage Fund Management Committee of the King Baudouin Foundation in Brussels

December 3rd
Prince Lorenz will attend the conference "How to save the World Heritage in Danger in Africa" in Brussels

December 3rd
Princess Astrid will attend the presentation of the Essenscia Innovation Award at the Palais des Academies in Brussels

December 5th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the Province of East Flanders

December 5th
Prince Laurent will be present at the opening ceremony of the 25th Annual International Symposium on ALS / MND in Brussels

December 9th
King Philippe will officially open the Liefkenshoek rail link, a major infrastructure project for the extension of the railway capacity of the port of Antwerp

December 12th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will be received by Pope Francis at the Vatican

December 13th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, organized by the town of Bastogne in the presence of senior officials and many US veterans

December 16th
King Philippe will attend the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Belgodyssée in Brussels

December 18th
Prince Laurent will hand out the National Sports Award 2014 at Brussels Town Hall

 

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2015

January 2015​

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January 6th
Queen Mathilde will visit an exhibition devoted to the work of Belgian artist Constantin Meunier at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels

January 13th
King Philippe will visit the Puratos Inspirience Centre in Groot-Bijgaarden, a research centre for the bakery, pastry and chocolate sector

January 15th
Prince Laurent will attend the official opening of the 93th edition of the European Motor Show Brussels at Brussels Expo

January 17th
Queen Mathilde will attend a panel discussion in Brussels on "culture, misunderstood issue of Development Cooperation" in the framework of the European Year for Development

January 21st
Princess Astrid will attend an academic session in Brussels on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Pelicano Foundation

January 21st
Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend the Brussels Antiques and Fine Art Fair

January 21st
Princess Astrid will attend the exhibition "Flora Capital" at the Halles Saint Gery in Brussels as part of the Year of Flora

January 21st - 23rd
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

January 24th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the official opening of Mons 2015, European Capital of Culture, in Mons

January 27th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit Auschwitz II-Birkenau to participate in the ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp

January 28th
Queen Mathilde will visit the service centre Sint-Oda that offers home and day care for people with disabilities

 

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February 2015​

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February 2nd
Princess Astrid will attend a lunch in connection with the Diplomatic Contact Days at the Egmont Palace in Brussels

February 3rd
Queen Mathilde will attend a performance of the opera Alcina by Georg Friedrich Händel at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels

February 4th
Queen Mathilde will visit the General Welfare Centre Limburg vzw (CAW Limburg) in Genk

February 5th
Queen Mathilde will be present at the international symposium "Cancer, pregnancy and fertility" at the University Hospital (UZ) Leuven

February 7th
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend the 5th award ceremony of the "Magritte du Cinéma" at the Square Brussels Meeting Centre in Brussels

February 9th
King Albert will visit the Campus Erasme (faculty of medicine) in Anderlecht and will be informed about the research in human and molecular biology

February 10th
Prince Laurent will attend the celebration marking the 20th anniversary of the Belgian Association for children and adults with metabolic disease (BOKS) in Beveren

February 10th
Queen Mathilde will - together with a group of pupils - attend at a screening of the film "Disconnect" in Brussels. The presentation of the film is organized by Child Focus on the occasion of Safer Internet Day 2015

February 11th
King Philippe will view the OpBoksen project in Genk that helps young people in vulnerable situations to improve their situation

February 11th
Queen Mathilde will visit the association Perce-Neige in Jambes, a therapeutic day centre for children with multiple disabilities

February 14th
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend the premiere of the film "The Song of the Sea" marking the opening of the Youth Film Festval in Antwerp

February 15th
Prince Laurent will attend the commemoration of the rail way disaster in Buizingen that happend 5 years ago

February 23rd
Queen Paola will visit the permanent art installation "The look inside (The Blue Hour)" of Jan Fabre at the Fine Arts Museum in Brussels

February 24th
King Albert and Queen Paola will visit the exhibition "The SEA - salut d'honneur Jan Hoet in Oostende

February 24th
King Philippe will host a round table meeting on the employment market and job opportunities at the Royal Palace in Brussels

February 24th
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend the inauguration of a renovated house of Renovassistance in Schaerbeek

February 25th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will make an official visit to the institutions of the European Union in Brussels

February 26th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the Province of Flemish Brabant

February 26th
Princess Astrid will attend the award ceremony of the Fund for scientific medical research managed by the King Baudouin Foundation in Tervuren

 

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March 2015​

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March 3rd
Queen Mathilde will attend a conference of the European Union on the Ebola virus at the Egmont Palace in Brussels

March 3rd
Queen Mathilde will meet leading women from different backgrounds in the Province of Namur on the occasion of the International Women's Day

March 4th
Queen Mathilde will attend the presentation of the Womed Award in Brussels

March 6th
Queen Mathilde will participate in the symposium "Girls Impacted by Conflict and Civil Unrest" in Washington, DC - she will speak as a keynote speaker

March 8th
Prince Laurent will be present at the celebration marking the 30th anniversary of vzw De Karrekol in Drongen, a home for people with multiple disabilities

March 9th
Prince Laurent will attend the ceremony of the Music Octaves at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi

March 9th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will pay an official visit to the Vatican and will be received by Pope Francis

March 10th
Queen Mathilde will attend the play Burn Out in Etterbeek

March 11th
Queen Mathilde will attend the National Conference on Financial Education in Brussels as part of the European Money Week

March 12th - 13th
King Philippe will pay a working visit to Germany (Berlin, Düsseldorf, Wülfrath) to learn about various teaching methods

March 12th
Queen Mathilde will visit the "Doctors Without Borders" in Brussels and will attend a roundtable discussion on the medical and humanitarian needs worldwide, with particular focus on the Ebola virus

March 13th
Queen Mathilde will attend the event Week of Care at the Centre Sint-Lodewijk Wetteren that provides education and support for children, youth and adults with disabilities

March 21st - 27th
Princess Astrid will be on an economic mission to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates

March 24th
King Philippe will attend the opening of the Connector service building for passengers at Brussels Airport

March 31st
Princess Astrid will attend the Princess Margriet Award in Brussels

 

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April 2015​

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April 1st
King Philippe will make a working visit to the defense at the base of Beauvechain

April 2nd
King Philippe will visit the Constitutional Court in Brussels that celebrates 30 years of jurisprudence this year

April 2nd
Prince Laurent will visit the University of Mons where students of Psychology and Social Sciences will present their sustainable development projects

April 2nd
King Albert, Queen Paola and Princess Astrid will present the diplomas to the winners of the Prince Albert Fund 2015 in Brussels

April 3rd
Queen Mathilde will receive the annual report about poverty in Belgium

April 3rd
Princess Astrid will attend the seminar "Latest innovations in surgical oncology, ethical and quality of life" at the Royal Library in Brussels, organized by the Institut Jules Bordet on the occasion of its 75th anniversary

April 15th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend a dinner in Copenhagen to mark the 75th anniversary of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

April 20th
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will visit the exhibition "Anne Frank" at the Abbey of Stavelot

April 21st
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights and the Eurocorps in Strasbourg

April 23rd
Queen Mathilde will present the InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize 2015 in Brussels. This year the award is dedicated to research on metabolic diseases

April 23rd
Princess Astrid will visit the company Cand'Art in Bilzen. The tour is organized by UNIZO-Limburg on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the network UNIZO Vrouwelijke Ondernemers

April 25th
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend a performance of comedian Bruno Coppens in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre. The show is organized by and for the association Flying chairs, a charity for disabled people

April 30th
King Albert will view the exhibition "Eddy Merckx - Jacky Ickx" in Brussels, marking the joint celebration of the 70th anniversary of the two Belgian sport champions

April 30th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde wil visit the Province of Walloon Brabant

 

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May 2015​

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May 4th & 7th
Queen Mathilde will attend the qualifying of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 2015

May 5th
King Philippe will visit the Proximus telecommunications company in Brussels

May 5th
King Philippe will greet the participants in the "Train of 1000". The Train of 1000 is a five-day trip from Brussels to Krakow with 1000 young Europeans, a highlight of a one-year educational journey around the Holocaust and Memory

May 6th
Princess Astrid will attend a session on the theme Cancer and Employment organized by the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) in the European Business Summit in Brussels

May 6th
Prince Laurent will visit the Rose Garden in Soignies

May 6th
Princess Elisabeth together with King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will perform the baptism of the patrol boat P902 Pollux in Zeebrugge

May 7th
Queen Mathilde will hand out the Queen Mathilde Prize 2015 in Brussels

May 9th
Prince Lorenz as Honorary President of the association will attend the closing session of the General Assembly Statutory of the Royal Association of Historic Houses and Gardens of Belgium in Beauvechain

May 11th, 12th, 13th, 16th
Queen Mathilde will attend semifinals of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 2015

May 13th
Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend the opening ceremony of the 33th edition of the Special Olympics Belgium National Games in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

May 20th
Queen Mathilde together with Queen Máxima will open the exhibition Vormidable Den Haag marking the 20th anniversary of the cultural cooperation between Flanders and the Netherlands

May 25th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 2015

May 26th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a lunch for the jury members of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 2015

May 26th, 28th, 30th
Queen Mathilde will attend the final sessions of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 2015

May 27th
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 2015

May 29th
Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 2015

 

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June 2015​

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June 2nd
Princess Astrid will attend the Open Conference of the NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives (NCGP) at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels

June 2nd
Queen Mathilde will attend the presentation of youth business creation plans that followed the Training and Development Manager Training YouthStart. The event will take place at the CEFA Athénée Provincial de Leuze-en-Hainaut

June 4th
Prince Laurent will visit the Mental Health Center CGG Vägga in Antwerp

June 9th
Queen Mathilde will hand out the Francqui Prize 2015 to Prof. Stefaan Vaes from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, mathematics department, during a ceremony in Brussels

June 17th
Princess Astrid will attend the opening of the Hougoumont Farm in presence of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall

June 18th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the Federal commemoration ceremony to mark the Bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo

June 20th - 27th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will be on a state visit to China

 

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July 2015​

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July 2nd
King Philippe will visit the KU Leuven to meet participants of a postgraduate training for engineers. On this occasion a new solar car prototype will be unveiled

July 3rd
Queen Mathilde will attend the presentation of the annual federal prize "Fight against Poverty" at the CPAS in Saint-Gilles

July 15th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Boltanski exhibition at MAC's in Grand-Hornu

July 16th
Queen Mathilde will visit the exhibition "Piano & Co, 250 years of piano factory in Belgium" at the Museum of Industry, Labour and Textile (MIAT) in Ghent

July 17th
Queen Mathilde will visit yourservice exhibition at the Palais d'Egmont in Brussels

July 20th and 21rd
The Royal Family will attend various events celebrating the Belgian National Day

 

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August 2015​

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August 29th
King Philippe will attend a mass in honour of Queen Astrid at the Astrid Chapel in Küssnacht, Switzerland. The ceremony is held to mark the 80th anniversary of her accidental death

 

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September 2015​

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September 2nd
Queen Mathilde will attend a meeting of the National Immunization Programme Managers of the World Health Organization - Europe Region at the University of Antwerp

September 3rd
King Philippe will watch the soccer match between the Team Red Devils and the National Team of Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the qualification for the European Championship 2016 in France - the match will take place in Brussels

September 4th
Queen Mathilde will be present at a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Missing Persons Unit of the Federal Police in Brussels

September 7th
Princess Astrid will attend the opening ceremony of the World Congress of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) in Antwerp

September 9th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the 8th gala evening organized by the East Flanders Support Committee for the King Baudouin Foundation in Ghent

September 10th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the Province of Limburg

September 11th
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend the opening session of the 27th edition of the Walloon Heritage Days at the Abbey of Gembloux

September 12th
King Philippe will attend the national launch day of the 3000 leaders of the youth movement Chirojeugd Vlaanderen in Brussels

September 15th
Queen Mathilde will attend a session of the Council for Human Rights of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and she will chair a High Level Event on the theme Child Online Protection, organized in collaboration with the Special Representative of the Secretary- General of the United Nations on Violence against Children

September 17th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the informal annual meeting of the German Heads of States in Vaduz, Lichtenstein

September 18th
King Philippe will attend the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Volvo Car Gent in Ghent

 

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October 2015​

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October 1st
King Philippe will attend the forum Young Talent in Action in Brussels organized by the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB) on the topic of youth employment

October 2nd
Queen Mathilde will view the pilot project "Wikifin.be in financial education" presented at the Campus D'Hek in Landen

October 2nd
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Company for Housing in the Brussels Region

October 5th
Prince Laurent will attend the sesquicentennial of the annual village festival of the Royal Society Youth of Saint-Remy in Blegny

October 6th
Prince Laurent will visit the company SoftKinetic in Ixelles to view a demonstration of the latest developments in 3D vision and technology for the automotive industry

October 13th - 15th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will be on a State Visit to Poland

October 23rd
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the conference "Belgium in the United Nations: to build consensus, to act for peace" as part of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the United Nations

October 24th - 31st
Princess Astrid will be on an Economic Mission to Western Canada

October 29th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Adult Day Centre La Braise in Anderlecht

October 29th
King Philippe will visit the Belgian Federal Public Service Social Security in Brussels

October 30th
Prince Laurent will attend an event marking the 100th anniversary of the Pius X Institute in Antwerpen

 

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November 2015​

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November 9th - 12th
Queen Mathilde as Honorary President of Unicef Belgium will participate in an Unicef mission to Ethiopia

November 14th
King Albert and Queen Paola will attend a gala dinner hosted by the Queen Paola Foundation in Liège

November 15th

King Albert,Queen Paola,Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend the Fête du Roi 2015 - Te Deum at Cathédrale des Saints-Michel-et-Gudule in Bruxelles.

 

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December 2015​

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December 2nd
King Philippe will visit the Walloon Parliament in Namur on the occasion of its 35th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of the first direct election of its members

December 3rd
King Philippe will preside over a meeting with people working in social inclusion, prevention of radicalization and monitoring of radicalized young people

December 8th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive the new Suppliers of the Court during a reception at the Royal Palace

 

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2016

January 2016​

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January 7th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host the New Year reception for the Diplomatic Corps

January 8th
Queen Mathilde will visit the exhibition Nervia / Sint-Martens-Latem - Hyphens at the Museum of Ixelles

January 9th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the birthday celebrations of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg

January 12th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a New Year reception for the leaders of the European institutions based in Brussels and accredited permanent representatives to the EU

January 13th
Prince Laurent will attend the European Motor Show Brussels 2016

January 14th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a New Year reception for Permanent Representatives and Heads of Mission to the North Atlantic Council, members of the International Staff and Military Representatives to NATO and General Officers SHAPE

January 26th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive the heads of Belgian diplomatic posts on the occasion of the diplomatic contact days

January 27th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Centre for General Welfare of Brussels

January 28th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive the principal authorities of the country for a New Year's Reception at the Royal Palace

January 29th
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend a symposium on "Accelerating the production of social housing by diversifying the actors and methods" in Brussels

January 30th
Princess Astrid will attend a gala dinner organized by the Association FXB International in the presence of Miss Charlotte Casiraghi

January 31st
Queen Mathilde will attend a gala concert of the Young Belgian Strings at the Flagey in Brussels

 

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February 2016​

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February 1st
Queen Mathilde will visit the Sint-Guido/Sint-Pieter schools in Anderlecht to learn about their mediation projects

February 1st
Princess Astrid will attend the 15th edition of the gala concert organized by the Olivia Hendrickx Research Fund in Brussels

February 1st
Prince Laurent will visit the students in the sixth year of the Sint Paulus school in Kortrijk

February 2nd
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will pay a visit to the Hemptinne Centre, a residential service for severely mentally disabled adults, in Jauche

February 2nd
Princess Astrid will view the new unit of stroke care (Stroke Unit) of the University Hospital of Ghent

 

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March 2016​

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March 1st
Queen Mathilde will visit the Military Hospital Queen Astrid in Neder-over-Heembeek

March 1st
King Philippe will preside over a meeting on integration at the Royal Palace in Brussels

March 3rd
Queen Mathilde will meet prominent women from different backgrounds in the Province of West Flanders on the occasion of International Women's Day

March 8th - 10th
The President of the Federal Republic of Germany Joachim Gauck will be on a state visit to Belgium at the invitation of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde

March 12th -19th
Princess Astrid will be on an economic mission to Indonesia

March 15th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Heilig Hart school in Jette and the school Ecole fondamentale annexée Victor Horta in Saint-Gilles on the occasion of the Money Week

March 16th
Queen Mathilde will visit the MicroStart agency in Liege on the occasion of the Microcredit Week

March 17th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the media company RTL Belgium in Brussels

March 18th
Queen Mathilde will visit the psychiatric hospital Asster on the occasion of the Care Week

 

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April 2016​

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April 7th
Queen Mathilde will attend the Development Cooperation Forum 2016's symposium "Rethinking development cooperation for the SDGs: country-level perspectives and lessons" at the Egmont Palace in Brussels

April 12th
Queen Mathilde will visit The Studios in Courtrai and will be informed about the Radio Respect project

April 13th
King Philippe will make a visit to the National Elia Control Center in Brussels

 

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May 2016​

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May 2nd
Queen Mathilde will attend a qualifying event of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2016 in Brussels

May 3rd
Queen Mathilde will receive the annual Poverty Report of Belgium in Brussels

May 3rd
Princess Astrid as Honorary President will hand out the scientific prizes awarded by the Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation

May 4th
Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend the opening ceremony of the 34th Special Olympics Belgium in La Louvière

May 4th
Queen Mathilde will attend a qualifying event of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2016 in Brussels

May 9th, 11th, 13th, 14th
Queen Mathilde will attend semi-finals of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2016 in Brussels

May 23rd, 25th, 26th, 28th
Queen Mathilde will attend final sessions of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2016 in Brussels

May 24th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a lunch for members of the jury of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2016 in Brussels

May 24th
Prince Laurent and Princess Caire will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2016 in Brussels

May 27th
Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2016 in Brussels

May 31st
Queen Mathilde will hand out the awards to the winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2016 in Argenteuil

 

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June 2016​

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June 1st
Queen Paola will hand out the diplomas of the Queen Paola Award for Education 2015-2016, the ceremony will take place at Greenhouses of Laeken

June 3rd
Prince Laurent will attend the award ceremony of the Belgian Prize for Energy and the Environment in Brussels

June 4th
Prince Laurent will attend the 10th edition of the Liège Piano Competition at the Philharmonic Hall of Liège

June 6th
Queen Mathilde will attend the concert of the winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2016 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels

June 9th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the closing concert of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2016 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels

June 10th
King Philippe will open the new lock "Kieldrechtsluis" in the port of Antwerp, one of the greatest Flemish infrastructure projects in recent years

June 13th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive the participants of the Brussels-Asia Society Dialogue for a dinner at Laeken

June 15th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and his wife for a lunch marking the closure of the Brussels-Asia Society Dialogue

June 15th
Queen Mathilde will meet with Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, at the Royal Palace of Brussels

June 16th
Queen Mathilde will participate in a working lunch with representatives of several major European institutions in Brussels

June 16th
King Philippe will visit the State Council in Brussel

June 18th
King Philippe will attend the second match of the Red Devils at the EURO 2016 European Football Championship, Belgium will play against Ireland in Bordeaux, France

 

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July 2016​

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July 3rd
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the Procession of the Coronation in Tongeren. The procession is part of the 18th edition of the seven annual Coronation Celebrations in commemoration of the crowning of the miraculous statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Bishop Doutreloux in 1890

July 4th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive Mauricio Macri, President of the Argentine Republic, and his wife at the Royal Palace in Brussels

July 5th
Queen Mathilde will attend the conference "Children's Rights Matter: Why Europe needs to invest in children" organized by Eurochild, Child and Family and the Office of Birth and Childhood (ONE) in Brussels

July 8th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the exhibition "Between God and Money. The Golden Age of the Southern Netherlands" in Ghent

July 11th - 12th
Queen Mathilde will be on a working visit to the UN in New York City

 

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September 2016​

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September 2nd
Princess Astrid will attend the celebration of the 600th anniversary of the Royal Guild of St. Sebastian in Bruges

September 8th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host the 13th informal summit of the heads of the German-speaking states in Eupen

September 11th
King Philippe will attend the 70th commemoration ceremony in Adegem (Maldegem) for the British, Canadian and Polish soldiers who fell during the liberation of Belgium

September 13th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will pay a visit to the Province of Luxembourg

September 15th
Queen Mathilde will visit the organization New Horizons in Louvain-La-Neuve

September 20th
King Philippe will make a visit to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany

September 20th
Queen Mathilde will attend a performance of the show Cold Blood in Brussels

September 21st
Queen Mathilde will visit the "Actions in the Mediterranean" project in Brussels

September 22nd
King Philippe will attend the catastrophe exercise Purple Starling at the airport of Deurne

September 27th
King Philippe will visit the Home Baudouin, a hostel for homeless men

 

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October 2016​

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October 5th
King Philippe will receive Ashraf Ghani, the President of Afghanistan, at the Royal Palace in Brussels

October 5th
Queen Mathilde will visit two landmark exhibitions of Belgian artists of the twentieth century in Paris: the Magritte exhibition "The Treachery of Images" at the Centre Pompidou and the Hergé exhibition at the Grand Palais

October 5th
Princess Astrid will visit the laboratories of the Research Group of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Molecular Biology by Prof. Dr. Ann Massie et du Prof. Dr. Ilse Smolders in Brussels

October 6th
Prince Lorenz will visit the Royal Museum of Mariemont

October 9th - 15th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will be on a state visit to Japan

October 18th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde together with King Willem-Alexander will open the Dutch-Flemish pavilion at the Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany

October 24th - 25th
Queen Mathilde will make a humanitarian working visit to Amman, Jordan

 

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November 2016​

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November 8th
King Philippe will visit the centre L’Arche Vanier d’Aywaille for adults with various forms of mental disabilities

November 8th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will view the exhibition "King Albert I and the Great War" at Rumbeke Castle

November 9th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will make a visit to the Province of West Flanders

November 28th - 30th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will pay a state visit to the Netherlands

 

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December 2016​

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December 3rd - 11th
Princess Astrid will be on an economic mission to Texas, USA

December 6th
Prince Laurent will attend a colloquium at the Senate in Brussels on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Animal Welfare Act in Belgium

December 6th
King Philippe will visit the Court of Auditors in Brussels, as this year marks the 170th anniversary of the law that created the Court of Auditors

December 6th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen (Conservatoire Royal d’Anvers), School of Arts du Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool

December 8th
King Albert will visit the automobile museum Autoworld in Brussel marking its 30th anniversary

 

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2017

January 2017​

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January 10th
Queen Mathilde will host a round table meeting with various Belgian non-governmental organizations

January 12th
King Philippe will receive German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a meeting

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

January 13th
Princess Astrid will attend the opening of the 95th edition of the European Motos Show Brussels

January 16th
King Philippe will receive the President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca

January 16th - 19th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

January 18th
Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend a gala dinner on the occasion of the 62nd Brussels Antique Fair

January 25th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a New Year's reception for the leaders of the European institutions based in Brussels and the permanent representatives accredited to the European

 

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February 2017​

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February 2nd
Queen Mathilde will visit ATD Fourth World Belgian in Brussels

February 3rd
King Philippe will visit companies in the Province Liège

February 6th
King Philippe will receive Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

February 9th
Queen Mathilde will visit the project "côte à côte" at the High School Add Mosane in Liège

February 14th
King Philippe will attend the opening session of the International Conference "Mediation: Possibilities and Limits. Recent experiences in favor of peace" in Brussels

February 15th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the town of Verviers in the Province of Liège

February 16th
King Philippe will receive Almazbek Atambayev, President of the Kyrgyz Republic and Bill Gates for audiences at the Royal Palace

February 16th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Athénée Technique Royal MoBi in Gand

February 17th
King Philippe, Queen Mathilde and King Albert will attend the annual mass in memory of the deceased members of the Royal Family in Laeken

February 20th - 23rd
Queen Mathilde as Honorary President of UNICEF Belgium will visit Laos