Belgian Royal Family Picture Thread

[Archduchess Zelia]

Some old photos, I hadn't seen the first one. In the third one I see a resemblance between little Prince Amedeo (ha was always a doll!) and little Prince Gabriël.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1BHZ4fsMDx/?igsh=MjJkMmIyYzQxYw==

Wow, I've always thought Gabriel was all Mathilde but you can definitely see a resemblance to Laurent in that first picture. And Eléonore looks just like Astrid in the second picture. I also see a lot of Élisabeth in Philippe in all of these pictures.

 

[Linda_26]

Laurent REALLY does look like his father, much more so than his brother
I think the rumors about his paternity never really took off (even if people did talk about it) because of the family resemblance, it's just undeniable.

He always looked a lot like his father, also in pictures of him as a child, more so than his siblings, who have some Coburg traits but also resemble their mother's family and some of their italian cousins. As a young man Laurent also resembled his paternal grandfather King Leopold III at the same age.
The so-called "rumors" have always been so ridicolous that not even controversial journalists and royal watchers (like Thierry Debels, who spread other rumours about the family) have ever believed them

 

[Adda]

Slide #2 is an adorable photo of a very young Filip.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1rCwojpDgq/?igsh=MW5qanhudW9hbGZjdw==

 

[Linda_26]

Slide #2 is an adorable photo of a very young Filip.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1rCwojpDgq/?igsh=MW5qanhudW9hbGZjdw==

It is, actually, a picture of a very young Albert, see also the 6th picture here:

https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-glimpse-into-life-of-king-albert-ii.html?m=1

 

[Adda]

It is, actually, a picture of a very young Albert, see also the 6th picture here:

https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-glimpse-into-life-of-king-albert-ii.html?m=1

Thanks, PdV played me once again. They could be twins though, and I can see all of Filip's children in that photo.

I had never seen this picture of Leopold with his two eldest boys. Beautiful.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ML6aPHSR5fU/Uds_liF_eLI/AAAAAAAAKR0/KbgO2aCP1mg/s1600/scan0015.jpg

 

[An Ard Ri]

Thanks, PdV played me once again. They could be twins though, and I can see all of Filip's children in that photo.

I had never seen this picture of Leopold with his two eldest boys. Beautiful.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ML6aPHSR5fU/Uds_liF_eLI/AAAAAAAAKR0/KbgO2aCP1mg/s1600/scan0015.jpg

That's a wonderful photo of the king and 2 future Kings!

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Queen Elisabeth of Belgium in a 1920s dress
http://www.gogmsite.net/_Media/elisabeth-in-20s-dress_med.jpeg

 

[Linda_26]

A few pictures of the graduation of then Prince Philippe in Stanford, in June 1985, from a Flemish magazine (with also an interview to Philippe):

https://gisterennogvandaag.com/2020/07/02/35-jaar-geleden-prins-filip-wordt-master-philip/

 

[An Ard Ri]

A few pictures of the graduation of then Prince Philippe in Stanford, in June 1985, from a Flemish magazine (with also an interview to Philippe):

https://gisterennogvandaag.com/2020/07/02/35-jaar-geleden-prins-filip-wordt-master-philip/

The then Prince and Princess of Liege proudly watching their son at the Graduation Ceremony!

 

[Adda]

Little Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium, Prince Boudewijn of Belgium, Count Gustaf Eduard Bernadotte af Wisborg, Princess Ragnhild of Norway and Princess Astrid of Norway.

The photo is from1936, that's almost 90 years ago. Little Gustaf would die not that long after the photo was taken. Only Princess Astrid is still with us.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2XDtAHvuIK/?igsh=MWo0bWVrZWxjbXVqcw==

 

[An Ard Ri]

Little Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium, Prince Boudewijn of Belgium, Count Gustaf Eduard Bernadotte af Wisborg, Princess Ragnhild of Norway and Princess Astrid of Norway.

The photo is from1936, that's almost 90 years ago. Little Gustaf would die not that long after the photo was taken. Only Princess Astrid is still with us.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2XDtAHvuIK/?igsh=MWo0bWVrZWxjbXVqcw==

What a wonderful photo o them all.

 

[doro]

Little Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium, Prince Boudewijn of Belgium, Count Gustaf Eduard Bernadotte af Wisborg, Princess Ragnhild of Norway and Princess Astrid of Norway.

The photo is from1936, that's almost 90 years ago. Little Gustaf would die not that long after the photo was taken. Only Princess Astrid is still with us.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2XDtAHvuIK/?igsh=MWo0bWVrZWxjbXVqcw==

What happened with Gustaf Eduard?

 

[Linda_26]

A 4-generation picture that I had never seen before: little Archduchess Anna Astrid (then a few months old) with her parents Prince Amedeo and Princess Elisabetta, grandparents Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz and great-grandparents King Albert and Queen Paola:

https://64.media.tumblr.com/89232182787fa302b38a09d6923cf1cc/tumblr_ojwkmgsot41spqo4go1_1280.jpg

The quality could be better, but still a nice picture
It was certainly taken around Christmas 2016, at the same time of this one, of Anna Astrid and her great-grandparents

 

[Adda]

What happened with Gustaf Eduard?

I don't know the exact cause of his passing, but he died aged 6 (or 5 about to be 6). In fact, two of Count Folke's four sons died in childhood.

Very beautiful photos of Queen Astrid with her newborn Albert and her two eldest children. Josephine-Charlotte was such a doll!

𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐲𝐲𝐨𝐟𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 on Instagram: " astrid, queen of the belgians with her children by vandyk, june 1934."

 

[Linda_26]

King Baudouin, Prince Albert and Princess Paola at Astrid and Lorenz's engagement (May 1984):

https://pin.it/9Mub6DYV8


And a family picture, likely taken shortly after Astrid's wedding:

https://pin.it/1toKqG8Wm

 

[Linda_26]

Princess Joséphine-Charlotte with her little brother Prince Albert in the 1940s:

https://www.pinterest.it/pin/129197083048786276/

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Very beautiful photos of Queen Astrid with her newborn Albert and her two eldest children. Josephine-Charlotte was such a doll!

𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐲𝐲𝐨𝐟𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 on Instagram: " astrid, queen of the belgians with her children by vandyk, june 1934."

I like how Princess Josephine-Charlotte holds Prince Albert's hand. Very precious indeed!

 

[Adda]

Some remarkably cute photos of then Princess Joséphine-Charlotte:

The young Belgian Princess (on the left), then aged 4, playing with a friend on the beach of Ostende on June 27, 1931.
Cuteness overload!

https://media.gettyimages.com/id/104411374/it/foto/belgium-the-young-belgian-princess-josephine-charlotte-then-aged-4-playing-with-a-friend-on-the.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=0mMT_KeT8UyLLoy2KCXlK27AEWyE_gNM_qcIypmZvlU=

How fabulous is this? Joséphine-Charlotte attends a fancy dress ball in boys clothes, Brussels, circa 1937
(1)

https://media.gettyimages.com/id/104411380/pt/foto/belgium-belgian-princess-josephine-charlotte-posing-in-a-boys-suit-around-1937-she-will-later.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=zgn31RKxt1EGwlTvNen1DXpuRaAk3LNW9jGuxUw6xbg=

(2) https://media.gettyimages.com/id/17...=m1jWXZIw3sNlmsyuTtXeh2k8CI32DA3ADEPG0uk_stg=


On holiday at De Panne trying out a sand yacht on the beach, Belgium, 25th June 1938

https://media.gettyimages.com/id/171851804/photo/princess-on-holiday.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=piQtYXePKJB3-7pbD04ScDr_B9hksnEVrfGctID2PYs=

 

[Curryong]

I don't know the exact cause of his passing, but he died aged 6 (or 5 about to be 6). In fact, two of Count Folke's four sons died in childhood.

That’s extraordinary really in quite modern times to have two children out of four die in childhood. I have read that Gustaf Eduward died from complications following surgery in 1936, but he looks a very healthy happy little kid in that photo. Was it a tonsils operation or something of that sort, I wonder. And his younger brother, the third son of the family, died in 1944 at the age of ten. No information about his passing, accident, operation, long illness?

 

[An Ard Ri]

Princess Joséphine-Charlotte with her little brother Prince Albert in the 1940s:

https://www.pinterest.it/pin/129197083048786276/

That looks like the Royal Green Houses of Laeken in the background?

 

[Adda]

Queen Elisabeth

La Coquette Parisienne on Instagram: "▪️Elisabeth de Bavière, reine des Belges (1876-1965), C. Chusseau-Flaviens, 10 juillet 1910, Autochrome, Don Fondation Kodak-Pathé©️Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Alexis Brandt▪️ @museeorsay #fashionhi

36 likes, 0 comments - la_coquette_parisienne on July 29, 2024: "▪️Elisabeth de Bavière, reine des Belges (1876-1965), C. Chusseau-Flaviens, 10 juillet 1910, Autochrome, Don Fondation Kodak-Pathé©️Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Alexis Brandt▪️ @museeorsay #fashionhistory...

www.instagram.com

 

[maria-olivia]

She was absolutely not a "coquette parisienne". She was there at the 14-18 WW , she lost to early her husband due to a mountain accident . She consacrated herr life for Music with the Foundation of la Chapelle Reine Elisebeth et its worldknown Competition. At the End of her Life she went to China and Russia !!!

 

[An Ard Ri]

She was absolutely not a "coquette parisienne". She was there at the 14-18 WW , she lost to early her husband due to a mountain accident . She consacrated herr life for Music with the Foundation of la Chapelle Reine Elisebeth et its worldknown Competition. At the End of her Life she went to China and Russia !!!

Elisabeth was well travelled in her later years visiting Poland and Israel too!

 

[maria-olivia]

She was at the Opening of Toutankhamon 's tomb !

 

[An Ard Ri]

Queen Elisabeth's trips to Egypt in 1911, 1923, and 1930
Queen and Princess pay tribute to Belgian Egyptology with trip to Egypt

 

[Adda]

This is amazing!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1820078780473331726

The then Duke of Brabant with baby Princess Elisabeth

𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 🇧🇪 on Instagram: "King Philippe and baby Princess Elisabeth. 👶❤️ ———————————————————————— #kingphilippe #kingphilippeofbelgium #princesselisabeth #princesselisabethofbelgium #belgianroyalfamily #belgianroyalchildren #belgium #bab

542 likes, 18 comments - belgian.royal.family on August 3, 2024: "King Philippe and baby Princess Elisabeth. 👶❤️ ———————————————————————— #kingphilippe #kingphilippeofbelgium #princesselisabeth #princesselisabethofbelgium #belgianroyalfamily #belgianroyalchildren #belgium #baby".

www.instagram.com

 

[Adda]

Love this photo of Albert and Paola

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/105623553752424301/

 

[maria-olivia]

On Sunday during the Pope 's Masss , there is a picture of King Albert sitting and Delphine just behind standing. She looks so much as her father.

 

[Linda_26]

A Christmas Card from 2012, with Albert, Paola and their grandchildren:

https://royalresponses.com/wp-conte...d-paola-of-belgium-christmas-2012.jpeg?w=1200

 

[leidi]

A Christmas Card from 2012, with Albert, Paola and their grandchildren:

https://royalresponses.com/wp-conte...d-paola-of-belgium-christmas-2012.jpeg?w=1200

Much better than THAT Spanish card with the photoshopped grandchildren
I love the pic of Elisabeth painting alongside Paola, I remember the former queen saying that she had hired a painter to teach her granddaughters (Elisabeth, Laetitia and Louise) to paint, so the girls spent time with their grandparents and learned art