Belgian Royal Calendar

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March 2017​

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March 7th
Queen Mathilde will, on the occasion of the International Women's Day (March 8), meet women from different sectors of the Province of Hainaut at the Provincial Palace of Mons

March 8th
Queen Mathilde will hand out the Womed Award during a ceremony in Brussels

March 8th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive the laureates of "Women of Peace" 2012, 2014 and 2016 at the Royal Palace in Brussels

March 28th - 30th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will be on a state visit to Denmark

 

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April 2017​

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April 5th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a lunch for new UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the Royal Castle in Laeken

April 20th
Queen Mathilde will hand out the Prix Baillet Latour de la Santé 2017 - this year's award is devoted to the research in the field of neurological diseases, the ceremony will take place at the Palais des Académies in Brussels

April 20th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a reception for foreign Ambassadors in the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken

April 25th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the Province of West Flanders

April 25th
Princess Astrid will attend the show The Honeymoon by the Company of the Heart, organized by the non-profit organization Fistul Aid at the Cultural Center of Uccle

April 26th
Princess Astrid will attend the ceremony for the 2016 Prizes awarded by the Funds for Scientific Medical Research managed by the King Baudouin Foundation. The ceremony will take place at the Palais des Colonies in Tervuren

April 27th
Princess Astrid will attend the award ceremony for the 2017 winners of the Prince Albert Fund at the headquarters of the Belgian Federation of Enterprises (FEB) in Brussels

April 27th
King Philippe will receive members of the asbl Aarbeicomité and a delegation of the municipality of Beveren who will hand over the first strawberries to the King

April 27th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will view the exhibition Rik Wouters at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels

April 27th
Prince Lorenz will attend the official presentation of the winners of the 2016 Belgian Heritage Prize at the Egmont Palace in Brussels

 

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May 2017​

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May 2nd
King Philippe will receive Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counselor of the Union of Myanmar

May 4th
Queen Mathilde will hand out the Queen Mathilde Award 2017 at the Royal Palace in Brussels

May 8th
Queen Mathilde will attend a qualifying event of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017

May 11th
Queen Mathilde will attend a qualifying event of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017

May 12th
Queen Mathilde will attend a qualifying event of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017

May 15th
Queen Mathilde will attend a semi-final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017

May 16th
Queen Mathilde will attend a semi-final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017

May 20th
Queen Mathilde will attend a semi-final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017 and the proclamation of the finalists

May 29th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017

May 30th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a lunch for the members of the Contest Jury of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017 at the Royal Palace in Brussels

May 30th
Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017

May 31st
Queen Mathilde will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017

 

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June 2017​

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June 1st
Queen Mathilde will attend a session of the final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017

June 1st
King Philippe will attend the conference "Belgium at the Centre – Of Wich Europe?" organized on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Egmont Institute

June 1st
Queen Mathilde will visit the Yellow and White Cross in Ledeberg, Gand, marking their 80th anniversary

June 2nd
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend a session of the final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017

June 3rd
Queen Mathilde will attend a session of the final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017

June 6th
Queen Mathilde will award the prizes to the laureates of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017 at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Argenteuil

June 6th
Queen Mathilde will attend the concert Voices4Development in Brussels

June 6th
King Philippe will receive the Governor-General of New Zealand and the President of Ghana for audiences at the Royal Palace

June 7th
King Philippe will attend the MNM Marathonradio at the radio station MNM (VRT) in Louvain

June 7th
Queen Mathilde will attend the European Development Days 2017 in Brussels

June 7th
Princess Astrid will attend commemorations for the Battle of Messines Ridge

June 8th
King Philippe will receive the Presidents of Senegal, Bolivia and Guinea at the Royal Palace

June 10th - 17th
Princess Astrid will be on an economic mission to Korea

June 13th
Queen Mathilde will attend the winners' concert of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels

June 14th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the closing concert of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels

June 16th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife for a lunch at the Royal Castle in Laeken

June 16th
Queen Mathilde will attend the award ceremony for the Federal Poverty Reduction Award 2017 in Brussels

June 17th
King Philippe will visit an exhibition in Brussels organized on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the company Delhaize

June 20th
King Philippe, Queen Mathilde and Princess Astrid will attend the International King Baudouin Award for Development in Africa at the Royal Palace in Brussels

June 21st
King Albert will inaugurate the new clubhouse of the Belgian Royal Yacht Club in Anvers

June 21st
Queen Mathilde will attend a study day organized by Child Focus in Brussels

June 22nd - 23rd
King Philippe will pay an official visit to Switzerland to study the various aspects of the dual education system

 

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July 2017​

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July 1st
King Philippe, Queen Mathilde and their children will attend a rescue exercise at the Belgian coast in Westende, Middelkerke

July 11th
King Philippe will meet with Jorge Carlos Fonseca, President of Cape Verde, at the Royal Palace in Brussels

July 12th
King Philippe will attend the Entrepreneurship Education Summit in Brussels

July 13th
Queen Mathilde will visit the editorial board of the country's oldest women's magazines Femmes d’Aujourd’hui and Libelle in Mechelen

July 20th & 21st
The Royal Family will attend the National Day celebrations 2017

 

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August 2017​

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September 2017​

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September 5th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the Belgian premiere of the opera Pinocchio at the Royal Theatre of the Mint in Brussels

September 8th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Venice Biennale in Italy

September 12th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the Order of the Paardevissers in Koksijde (Oostduinkerke) marking the 50th anniversary of the organization and will participate in several demonstrations including shrimp fishing and shrimp cooking

September 14th
King Philippe will visit the Matinal Market of Brussels

September 15th
Queen Mathilde will attend the Eurofleurs European Competition for young florists in Saint-Trond

 

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October 2017​

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October 2nd
King Philippe will participate in the FEB Young Talent in Action forum in Brussels

October 4th
King Philippe will inaugurate the location BeCentral at the central station in Brussels

October 10th
Queen Mathilde will visit the container village Poliopolis where a group of volunteers was quarantined for 28 days to test two new oral polio vaccines - the pilot project is led by the University of Antwerp

October 12th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany

October 12th
Princess Astrid will attend the New Zealand National Commemoration for The Battle of Passchendaele

October 12th
King Philippe will visit Brussels Airport

October 13th
Queen Mathilde will visit a centre of the Help and Home Care Federation located in Jambes (Namur)

October 17th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Hotel and Tourism School Spermalie in Bruges which is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year

October 18th
King Philippe will pay a working visit to the Royal School of the Under-Officers (ERSO) in Saint-Trond

October 19th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a concert at the Royal Palace

October 22nd - 26th
Princess Astrid will be on an economic mission to the Republic of the Ivory Coast

 

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November 2017​

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November 5th - 11th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will pay a state visit to India

November 11th
Princess Astrid will attend the homage to the Unknown Soldier and the solemn commemoration of the victims of the two World Wars and peace operations and humanitarian operations abroad since 1945

November 14th
Princess Astrid will attend the first award ceremony of the new biennial AstraZeneca Foundation Award, awarded in support of the Belgian biomedical scientific research

November 14th
Princess Astrid will visit the Proximus Art Collection

November 14th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive Belgian nobility during for an audience at the Royal Palace

November 15
King Albert, Queen Paola, Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend the King's Day celebrations

November 23rd
Princess Astrid will visit the VIB Center for Brain & Disease Research at the University of Leuven

November 23rd
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the centre for Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) in Brussels

November 29th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the Province of Flemish Brabant

November 30th
Queen Mathilde will visit the University of Art in Mons

 

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December 2017​

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December 1st
Princess Astrid will visit the Victor Dupré Home for homeless women on the occasion of its 130th birthday

December 2nd
King Albert as Honorary President of the Quartier des Arts will participate in an academic session marking the 50th anniversary of the Quartier des Arts

December 5th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Jules Lejeune boarding school in Wezembeek-Oppem

December 6th
King Philippe will visit the residential care center Sint-Margaretha in Holsbeek

December 7th
Queen Mathilde will chair a round table meeting at the Belvas company in Ghislenghien with representatives of companies involved in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals

December 8th
Queen Mathilde will receive the Honorary National German Sustainability Award in Düsseldorf, Germany

December 12th
King Philippe will attend an ecumenical celebration at the Protestant Church of Brussels-Museum (Royal Chapel) on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation

December 14th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive the President of the Republic of Haiti and his wife

December 14th
King Philippe will attend the award ceremony of the Belgodyssey competition in Brussels

December 20th
King Philippe, Queen Mathilde, their children, Princess Astrid, Prince Lorenz, Princess Claire and her sons will attend the annual Christmas concert at the Royal Palace

 

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2018

January 2018​

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January 11th
King Philippe will open the 96th edition of the European Motor Show Brussels

January 11th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a New Year's reception for the NATO permanent representatives and Shape officers at the Royal Palace in Brussels

January 16th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a New Year's reception for the chiefs of the diplomatic missions in Belgium at the Royal Palace in Brussels

January 18th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a New Year's reception for the Belgian Authorities at the Royal Palace in Brussels

January 22nd - 25th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

January 26th
King Albert, Queen Paola, Princess Claire, Princess Louise, Prince Aymeric and Prince Nicolas will attend the opera Carmen in Liege

January 27th
Prince Laurent will visit the exhibition "American Dream cars and bikes" at the Autoworld Museum in Brussels

January 29th
Princess Astrid will visit the Nativitas Men's Home in Brussels that provides a welcoming place to the disadvantaged

January 29th
Princess Astrid will hand out the National Trophy of Sports Merit 2017 during a ceremony in Brussels

 

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February 2018​

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February 1st
Princess Astrid will attend the Paralympic Sports Awards

February 4th
Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend the Flemish premiere of the Belgian-Dutch film ZOOks at the official opening of the JEF in Antwerp

February 6th
Queen Mathilde will give a speech at the symposium "Student engagement, resource for the future" in Brussels

February 6th
King Philippe will attend the celebration marking the 5th anniversary of the Young Academy at the Palais des Academies in Brussels

February 7th - 9th
Queen Mathilde will make a working visit to Ghana

February 20th
King Philippe will receive Armin Laschet, Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at Laeken

February 20th
Princess Astrid will attend the EURORDIS Awards ceremony in Brussels on the occasion of the International Day of Rare Diseases

February 20th
Princess Astrid will attend the New and Emerging Regulations Seminar organized by the Royal Union of Pharmacists of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Brussels

February 20th
The Royal Family will attend the annual mass celebrated in memory of the deceased members of the family at the Notre-Dame church in Laeken

February 21st
King Philippe will attend a celebration for the 50th anniversary of the social status of the self-employed at BOZAR Brussels

February 22nd
Queen Mathilde will visit the project "Education for Peace and Citizenship through singing and the performing arts" at the House of Performing Arts in Godinne

February 25th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the Krakelingen procession in Grammont, on the occasion of the 950th anniversary of the city's charter of freedom

February 27th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the German-speaking Community at Saint Vith

February 27th
Queen Paola will visit the Help and Home Care Centre in Brussels to express her gratitude to the staff members who had contributed to her recovery

February 28th
King Philippe will attend the Youth Place event in Brussels, organized by the Royal Institute of the Elites of Labour

February 28th
Princess Astrid will attend the 2017 prize giving ceremony of the Funds for Scientific Medical Research managed by the King Baudouin Foundation

 

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March 2018​

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March 1st
Princess Astrid will open the 5th edition of the fair "Salon du Chocolat" with the theme "Chocolate & Cocoa: The Great Adventure" in Brussels

March 1st
Queen Mathilde will visit the LUCA School of Arts at the Lemmens Campus in Leuven

March 6th
Queen Mathilde will visit the WCU-DANCE project at the Petit Château in Wijnegem

March 7th
King Philippe will view the exhibition "The Royal Family makes the front page" at the Art and History Museum Cinquantenaire in Brussels

March 7th
Queen Mathilde will attend a meeting with women from different sectors of the province of East Flanders

March 9th
Queen Mathilde will attend a round table meeting in Brussels the occasion of the Week of Money

March 11th - 17th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will pay a state visit to Canada

March 14th
King Albert and Queen Paola will visit Ostende

March 19th
Queen Mathilde will attend a concert of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, held especially for a young audience

March 20th
King Philippe will participate in the celebration for the 20th anniversary of Belgian Industrial Research and Development at the Palais des Academies in Brussels

March 22nd
Queen Mathilde will deliver the opening speech at the World Ports Sustainability Programme (WPSP) event in Antwerp

March 23rd
Prince Lorenz will attend the show "On the Way", organized by the non-profit organization Open Churches on the occasion of its tenth anniversary at the Saint Martin Church in Arlon

 

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April 2018​

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April 17th
King Philippe will visit the mentoring programme DUO for a JOB in Brussels

April 17th
Queen Mathilde as UN Special Advocate for the SDGs will give the opening speech during an Academics For Development event in Leuven

April 19th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Art Brussels contemporary art fair

April 19th
Queen Mathilde will hand out the Baillet Latour Prize for Health 2018, this year dedicated to the research in the field of cancer

April 19th
King Philippe will visit the Community of Sant'Egidio in Antwerp, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the community

April 23rd - 25th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit New York City. King Philippe will deliver a speech to the General Assembly of the UN on the occasion of a special meeting devoted to the consolidation and perpetuation of peace. Queen Mathild will attend meetings in her capacity as UN Special Advocate for the SDGs, on April 25 they'll visit West Point Military Academy

 

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May 2018​

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May 1st
Queen Mathilde will attend a qualifying event of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2018 in Brussels

May 2nd
King Philippe will attend the official opening of the project "Our Forgotten Heroes" in connection with the centenary of the end of the First World War

May 4th
King Philippe will attend the festivities marking the 125th anniversary of the Royal Forest Society of Belgium in Lavaux-Sainte-Anne

May 4th & 5th
Queen Mathilde will attend semi-finals of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2018 in Brussels

May 9th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a lunch for members of the jury of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2018 in Brussels

May 10th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2018 in Brussels

May 11th
Prince Laurent and Princess Caire will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2018 in Brussels

May 12th
Queen Mathilde will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2018 in Brussels

May 14th
King Philippe will attend a working lunch on the occasion of the International Ministerial Conference on Victims of Ethnic and Religious Violence in the Middle East

May 15th
King Philippe will visit the Sint-Rembert School Centre in Torhout and the Greenyard Frozen Company in Westrozebeke that will participate in the implementation of work-study training in Flanders

May 15th
Queen Mathilde will hand out the awards to the winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2018 in Argenteuil

May 16th
Queen Mathilde will deliver the Queen Mathilde Award 2018 during a ceremony in Brussels

May 17th
King Philippe will visit the Tandem project of the High School Francisco Ferrer and the Erasmushogeschool Brussel

May 20th
Queen Mathilde will attend the procession of the Virgin Mary in Hal on the occasion of the jubilee year "Hal, 750 years Marian City"

May 29th
Queen Paola will visit the Arc-en-Ciel school in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean

May 29th
King Philippe will attend a ceremony in Waterloo marking the 90th anniversary of the National Fund for Scientific Research

May 30th
Queen Paola and Princess Claire will attend the award ceremony of the Queen Paola Prize 2017-2018

 

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June 2018​

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June 4th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the closing concert of the Queen Elisabeth International Musical Competition - Vocal 2018

June 5th
King Philippe will attend the celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the Benelux Union, Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and King Willem-Alexander will be present as well

June 5th
Queen Mathilde will attend the opening ceremony of the European Development Days 2018 in Brussels

June 8th
Queen Mathilde will attend the award ceremony of the 2018 Federal Prize for the Fight against Poverty in Brussels

June 11th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the painting restoration workshop of the Royal Institute for Artistic Heritage

June 12th
King Philippe will hand out the Francqui Prize 2018 to Professor Frank Verstraete of the University of Ghent during a ceremony at the Palais des Academies in Brussels

June 13th
King Philippe will attend the inauguration of the Global Apprenticeship Network

June 14th
Queen Mathilde will chair a round table meeting in Anderlecht with representatives of companies involved in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals

June 19th
King Philippe will visit the institution Mont-de-Piété on the occasion of its 400th anniversary

June 20th
King Philippe will visit Belgian Heroes SA and its R/O Institute, the animation studios Keywall and Dreamwall, as well as Editions Dupuis in Charleroi

June 22nd
Queen Mathilde will attend the Graduation Gala of the Royal Ballet School of Antwerp

June 23rd - 30th
Princess Astrd will be on an economic mission to Argentina and Uruguay

 

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July 2018​

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July 3rd
Queen Mathilde will attend the cultural festival "Antwerp Baroque 2018. Rubens inspires" in Antwerp

July 4th
Queen Mathilde will view the exhibition "Melancholia" at the Villa Empain in Brussels

July 14th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend a ceremony at the Cenotaph, Whitehall in London, commemorating the Belgians who died during the two World Wars

July 20th & 21st
The Royal Family will attend the National Day celebrations 2018

 

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August 2018

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September 2018​

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September 1st
King Philippe will inaugurate the new tram line 9 in Brussels

September 4th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Queen Elisabeth Institute and the bilingual Ter Helme holiday camp for people with disabilities in Oostduinkerke

September 5th - 6th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the annual informal meeting of the Heads of State of German-speaking countries in Switzerland

September 8th
The Royal Family will attend a mass on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the death of King Baudouin

September 18th
Queen Mathilde will visit the social assistance group The Family in Brussels on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its creation

September 20th
King Philippe will receive the initiators of the museumPASSmuseums for a meeting at the Royal Palace

September 20th
Princess Astrid will attend the presentation of the Simone and Pierre Clerdent Foundation Prize at the Château de Colonster in Liège

September 20th
Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend a gala evening organized by the Support Council King Baudouin Foundation West Flanders in Courtrai

September 23rd - 25th
Queen Mathilde will attend United Nations General Assembly in New York City

September 27th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive athletes who have won a medal in the first eight months of 2018 at a European or World Championship in an Olympic or Paralympic sports competition

 

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October 2018​

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October 1st
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit Vienna, Austria, and will open the "BRUEGEL" exhibition at the Art History Museum of Vienna

October 2nd
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend a gala evening organized by the Antwerp Support Committee for the King Baudouin Foundation in Antwerp

October 10th
Queen Mathilde will give the opening address at the Global Girls Summit 2018 in Brussels organized by Plan International as part of the International Day of the Girl

 

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November 2018​

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November 8th
Queen Mathilde will visit the exhibition "Power and Beauty - The Arenbergs" at the Museum M in Leuven

November 10th
Princess Astrid will attend the inauguration of the new George Price Memorial at Ville-sur-Haine (Le Roeulx)

November 11th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the hommage ceremony at the Unknown Soldier Monument at the Congress Column in Brussels and the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres

November 11th
King Philippe, Queen Mathilde, Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend a concert marking the 100th anniversary of the First World War

November 14th
King Philippe will receive Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa, at Laeken Castle

November 15th
The Royal Family will attend the King's Feast

November 16th
Queen Mathilde will participate in the week of reading aloud organized by Iedereen Leest at the nursery 't Vlindertje in Boutersem

November 19th - 20th
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife will pay a state visit to Belgium

November 22nd
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive Patent Providers of the Court

November 22nd
King Philippe will attend an academic session organized by the Federal Parliament and will visit the exhibition "The Colors of Liberation - The Tapestry Tells"

November 23rd
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend a number of engagements in Berlin, Germany, as part of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War

November 25th - 30th
Princess Astrid will be on an economic mission to Morocco

November 30th
King Albert and Queen Paola will attend the gala concert of the Queen Paola Foundation in Anvers

 

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December 2018​

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December 4th
Queen Mathilde will attend the UNESCO World Education Meeting at the Egmont Palace in Brussels

December 5th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend an academic session in Brussels on the theme "The fight against human trafficking: assessment and new challenges" organized by the King Baudouin Foundation in honour of the 25th anniversary of the death of King Baudouin

December 6th
Queen Mathilde will pay a visit to the Royal Conservatory of Liège

December 11th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit the Province of Brabant

December 12th
King Philippe will visit the newspaper L'Avenir in Bouge on the occasion of its 100th anniversary

December 12th
Queen Mathilde will chair a round table meeting in Brussels with representatives of companies contributing to sustainable development

December 13th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will receive people who had received noble favours this year

December 16th
Princess Astrid will attend the Christmas concert organized by the Asbl Be.source in Brussels on the occasion of their 10th anniversary

December 18th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will pay a Christmas visit to the Biloba House for elderly people in Schaerbeek

December 18th
Princess Astrid will attend the presentation of the National Trophy of Sports Merit 2018 at the City Hall of Brussels

December 19th
King Philippe, Queen Mathilde, King Albert, Princess Elisabeth, Prince Gabriel, Prince Emmanuel, Princess Eléonore, Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend the annual Christmas concert at the Royal Palace

 

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2019

January 2019​

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January 10th
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 Union

January 15th
King Philippe will visit the day centre for homeless women, men and families of the organization L'Ilot

January 15th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a New Year's reception for the heads of diplomatic missions accredited to Belgium

January 17th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will host a New Year's reception for the NATO permanent representatives and Shape officers at the Royal Palace in Brussels

January 22nd -24th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

January 26th
Queen Mathilde will attend a concert in honour of the retiring Chairman of the Jury of the International Queen Elisabeth Competition

January 28th
Princess Astrid will attend a luncheon at the Egmont Palace in Brussels as part of the Diplomatic Days

January 29th
King Philippe will pay a visit to the Campus T2 in Genk

January 29th
King Philippe, Queen Mathilde, Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will receive principal authorities of the country on the occasion of the New Year

January 29th
Princess Astrid will attend the awarding of the prestigious title of "Foreign Member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine" to Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier, organized by the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine at the Palais of the Academies of Brussels

January 31st
Queen Mathilde will attend a round table discussion on bullying at the Athénée Royal d'Esneux

 

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February 2019​

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February 3rd -7th
Queen Mathilde will visit Mozambique in her role as United Nations Advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

February 12th
Queen Mathilde will be named Honorary Member of the two academies "Académie royale de Médecine de Belgique, ARMB" and "Koninklijke Academie voor Geneeskunde van België, KAGB" (Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine), during the ceremony at the Palais des Académies in Brussels she will also hold an inaugural speech on mental health

February 12th
King Philippe will host the symposium "What training for our future?" at the Royal Palace in Brussels

February 12th
King Philippe will visit Audi Brussels

February 14th
Queen Mathilde will attend the 50th edition of Brussels Book Fair

February 15th
Queen Mathilde will visit the music recovery project of the Fernand Philippe Maternal Home in Wanfercée-Baulet (Fleurus)

February 16th - 24th
Princess Astrid will be on an economic mission to Mexico

February 19th
King Philippe, Queen Mathilde, King Albert, Queen Paola, Prince Laurent and Princess Claire will attend the annual mass celebrated in memory of the deceased members of the family at the Notre-Dame church in Laeken

February 20th
King Philippe will visit the Greenbizz Circular Economy Entrepreneurship Centre and the Tivoli GreenCity Sustainable and Participatory Habitat Project in the Tivoli Laeken district

February 25th
Queen Mathilde will attend the opening of the World Resources Forum in Anvers

February 26th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will visit Duffel, Lier and Herentals in the Province of Anvers

February 27th
Queen Mathilde will visit the Sint-Jozef Coloma Primary School in Mechelen as part of the Flemish Week Against Harassment

February 27th
Queen Mathilde will present the annual Womed Award in Brussels

February 28th
King Philippe will visit the Impact House in Brussels

February 28th
King Philippe will attend a ceremony organized for the 100th anniversary of Essenscia, the federation of the chemistry sector of Belgium

February 28th
King Philippe, Queen Mathilde, Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend the annual Spring Concert at the Royal Palace in Brussels

 

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March 2019​

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March 12th
King Philippe will visit the King Baudoin College in Schaerbeek in connection with the Story-me project

March 14th
Queen Mathilde will attend the opera PUSH at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels

February 15th
Queen Mathilde will visit the organization DVC Sacred Heart in Deinze in the framework of the Week of Care

March 17th
King Philippe will attend the pontifical celebration "Sunday of Orthodoxy" at the Cathedral of the Holy Archangels (Cathédrale des Saints Archanges) in Brussels

March 21st
Queen Mathilde will attend the 6th World Homeshare Congress in Brussels

March 24th - 28th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will pay a state visit to South Korea

 

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April 2019​

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April 1st
King Philippe will receive Faustin-Archange Touadera, President of the Central African Republic, for an audience at the Royal Palace

April 2nd
Princess Astrid will visit the Food Bank of West Flanders and the new food distribution centre Food Act 13 in Kuurne

April 2nd
Princess Astrid will attend the presentation of the Essenscia Innovation Award in Brussels

April 2nd
King Philippe will pay a one-day working visit to Estonia

April 3rd
Queen Mathilde will attend a celebration marking the 20th anniversary of the Belgian Development Agency, Enabel, in Brussels

April 4th
Princess Astrid will attend the 2018 Prize giving ceremony, awarded by the Fund for Scientific Medical Research, organized by the King Baudouin Foundation in Brussels

April 4th
King Philippe will visit the VentureLab and the HEC Liège Management School

April 7th
King Philippe will be present at a ceremony marking the Veterans Day

April 29th
Queen Mathilde will attend a qualifying event of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2019

April 30th
Queen Mathilde will attend a qualifying event of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2019

April 30th
King Philippe will attend the kick-off of the 150th anniversary of the tramway in Brussels and the inauguration of the model of the new generation of Brussels trams

 

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May 2019​

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May 3rd
King Philippe will visit the University Hospital of Antwerp on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the organization "Fight against Cancer"

May 3rd
Princess Astrid will attend the second edition of the biennial "AstraZeneca Foundation Award" at the Palais des Academies in Brussels

May 7th
Queen Mathilde will attend a semi-final of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2019

May 9th
Queen Mathilde will present the Queen Mathilde Prize 2019 at the Royal Palace in Brussels

May 11th
Queen Mathilde will attend a semi-final of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2019

May 20th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2019

May 21st
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will offer a lunch for the members of the jury of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2019 at the Royal Palace

May 22th
Queen Mathilde will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2019

May 24th
Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2019

May 25th
Queen Mathilde will attend a final session of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2019

May 28th
Queen Mathilde will award the prizes to the laureates of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2019 at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Argenteuil

 

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June 2019​

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June 4th
Queen Mathilde will attend the concert of the laureates of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2019 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels

June 6th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the closing concert of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2019 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels

June 20th
King Philippe will visit the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, marking its 100th anniversary

June 24th - 27th
Queen Mathilde as Honorary President of UNICEF Belgium will participate in a mission to Kenya

 

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July 2019​

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July 6th
King Philippe will attend the Brussels Grand Départ 2019 of the Tour de France 2019

July 9th & 10th
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will pay an official visit to the German federal states Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt

July 20th & 21st
The Royal Family will attend the National Day celebrations 2019

 

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August 2019​

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August 31st
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will attend the celebration of 75 years of Freedom and 75 years since the Battle of the Scheldt in Terneuzen, the Netherlands