The Snow Princess: Queen Astrid of Belgium, Part 2


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Queen Astrid, the Snow Princess, was very attractive. She also did her very best to be a great consort and Queen and she was so beloved. The whole thing was such a tragedy.

You do wonder of course, how it would have gone for the family after the war and the RF imprisonment with Astrid present. King Leopold might well have still been blamed for his conduct during the war, but it’s possible that if Astrid had still been around she may have alleviated some of the bitterness. And of course there would then have been no Lilian.
 
Queen Astrid, the Snow Princess, was very attractive. She also did her very best to be a great consort and Queen and she was so beloved. The whole thing was such a tragedy.

You do wonder of course, how it would have gone for the family after the war and the RF imprisonment with Astrid present. King Leopold might well have still been blamed for his conduct during the war, but it’s possible that if Astrid had still been around she may have alleviated some of the bitterness. And of course there would then have been no Lilian.
It's my belief that Astrid not dying would have meant some more common sense at Laeken during the war (it's always been my opinion that Leopold, who was a nice man but not very bright, heavily relied on the women in his life for support and decisions), no circus Lilian, no question royale and a much happier life for both her children and grandchildren.

Oh, and more heirloom jewellery for Queen Mathilde.
 
Leopold himself would say — after everything including remarriage, more kids, Nazis, terror, and abdication — “Oh, if only Astrid were still alive.. It would have all been so different...”

Astrid was loved by everybody and I can’t see the Belgians forcing her off the throne — and I doubt Leopold would have been so willing to go, if she were alive and well.

He loved her. He lost her. There was no one who could be what she was and do what she did. It is very sad.
 
If Leopold III did not drive HIMSELF a car he did not know and was not one for the Mountains.
If his private driver used the car , Queen Astrid was still alive.
The contacts between Leopold III and the Swedish Royal family were difficult and he is not seen on family pictures (between 1935 - 1940) . His Children went to Sweden to their beloved Princess Ingeborg and Prince Carl.
 
Was Leopold responsible for the pear tree, too? Some things are just freak tragic accidents.

Her parents very publicly did not blame him and said gracious things instead when they didn’t in the least have to. And there is a picture in Norway seemingly from the time period with Leopold and all the in-laws. If Leopold never went to Sweden it’s possibly because it was just too painful, not because he wasn’t welcome.

If Astrid were alive, I also wonder if the Nazis would have hesitated at deporting a member of the Swedish royal family, so perhaps that might not have happened as well.

I don’t think Leopold ever stopped blaming himself for her death, and that didn’t necessarily produce any beneficial results. It doesn’t mean the rest of us have to.
 
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