Members Of The Belgian RF As Children

[loali2]

This thread needs some older pics....

if anyones interested.
Queen Elisabeth with Marie-Jose

Leopold, Charles and Marie-Jose, a nice candid shot.

 

[loali2]

and just Leopold(III) as a baby.

What a beautiful child...in my opinion. He certainly became QUITE handsome. With two parents that looked like this...

Thats understandable. I simply adore Elisabeth and Albert was very good looking. (Photo obviously lifted from an internet database)

 

[loali2]

Marie-Jose's hair was just unbelievable. I love it though.

 

[Marengo]

Very true, wasn´t she nicknamed ´fuzzy´ by British soldiers who saw her at the villa of her parents during WWI?

 

[Moonmaiden23]

LOL...Oh my God!! I have never seen that picture of Marie Josee's hair!

I am speechless.

 

[loali2]

I dont know where the hair came from. Neither of her parents had had it as children...nor her brothers. It was truely unique. She was a beautiful child and young women though.
heres another similar shot.

My Charles looked just like his mother...and quite like her Wittelsbach family esp her father Karl Theodore (Sisi's brother).

 

[indian princess]

Don't you think that King Albert looked a lot like Amadeo

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yes.but IMO amadeo's beter looking and has more chisled features- no baby fat.....LOL

 

[paola]

This thread needs some older pics....

Leopold, Charles and Marie-Jose, a nice candid shot.

Looking at Prince Charles at this picture I see resemblance with Prince Laurent and Prince Filip when the were children.

 

[Lina RdC]

Here is a blog entry on the newly released book "L'Album Royal. De Léopold 1er à Baudouin" (offering 250 unpublished and unused shots of the Belgian royal family): Quand le roi Albert II jouait du violon
A few photos: Albert en 1939 © APR | Soirmag.be

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Baudouin Duke of Brabant and Albert Prince of Liege http://www.gettyimages.com/license/89857570
Prince Baudouin in his scout uniform http://www.gettyimages.com/license/2638071
Princess Josephine Charlotte in 1929 http://www.gettyimages.com/license/537571911

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Unattributed postcard of Prince Baudouin and Princess Josephine Charlotte
http://www.maryevans.com/history/11070170

 

[Linda_26]

Here's a couple of short videos of a cute 1-year-old, then Prince Philippe
Here, on the occasion of his first birthday (15th April 1961)

And a few months later, on holiday in Italy

 

[Linda_26]

Prince Philippe and Princess Astrid with their maternal grandmother Luisa (Astrid's middle daughter is named after her), around 1963

https://pin.it/5QzYW7a

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Queen Victoria of England would have liked the portrait of her first cousin Prince Leopold (King Leopold II) of Belgium. The artist was Franz Winterhalter. He had painted portraits of her children.

Leopold, Duke of Brabant - Franz Xaver Winterhalter - WikiArt.org

‘Leopold, Duke of Brabant’ was created by Franz Xaver Winterhalter in Neoclassicism style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

wikiart.org

 

[Linda_26]

The first "interview" of little Prince Philippe, in 1966, shared again today on the occasion of his 65th birthday:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1242552841003616&id=100057467361409

 

[Adda]

The first "interview" of little Prince Philippe, in 1966, shared again by today on the occasion of his 65th birthday:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1242552841003616&id=100057467361409

Adorable! Such a gentle little boy.
Love seeing the darling nanny handling a very sweet Princess Astrid and already restless Prince Laurent.

 

[meeralakshmi]

Astrid had a strong resemblance to her niece Eléonore as a child:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RoyalsGossip/comments/1fvnpit/princess_el%C3%A9onore_of_belgium_and_her_aunt/

https://www.reddit.com/r/RoyalsGossip/comments/1k7ny2g/princess_el%C3%A9onore_of_belgium_twinning_with_her/

Eléonore looks more like Astrid than either of her parents.

Astrid looked so much like her niece Eléonore didn’t she? Wish we could see pics of Lorenz as a child but it appears that the earliest available pics of him are from the announcement of his engagement to Astrid.