Recent content by Hannelore

Seriously, you want her go say hi to the lady who does the sandwiches? What about the window cleaners?

Yes, a (family?) photo will be released. There will also be a private celebration with about 70 friends. No public events. A & P are still traveling around France and Italy. They have staff for everything of course, but at their age it's quite a feat. Many people find their physical ailments...

Albert & Paola will be celebrating with friends, privately.

They forgot to add a thank you to the gardeners.

Lots of Belgian uni students spend part of their education abroad, e.g. through Erasmus or other EU programs. Elisabeth's cirriculum does not come across to me as strange because it doesn't include a Belgian university, even though some of them rank very high as well ... Some of my class mates...

Exactly. They were also perfectly able to have children the natural way. I guess the love for titles and money comes first.

Gorgeous!

That's not a hacienda it's a former farmhouse. The family lives in Basel now, in Switzerland. They're not often in Belgium. Lili has her roots in Rome.

In the media and on social media yes, but behind it a lot of valuable works is done: diplomatic meetings between the two countries, politicians talking to each other, business & trade contacts and subsequent contracts, universities & scientific meetings ...

Just like prince Afonso of Portugal (oldest son of Dom Duarte) he looks old beyond his years.

I remember watching this one on Dutch TV ... It was, as I recall it, the first of a whole wave of exciting royal weddings: Holland, Denmark, Belgium, UK, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway ...

Caroline was such an incredible natural beauty!

Nonsense. He went to Sint-Jan Berchmans (like all his siblings) and now he's at the International School of Brussels, like Eléonore and Gabriel.

How young they both still look!

He's dyslexic. That doesn't stand in the way of a degree. This is just as good a school as any. Benefit of this kind of military institution is that it combines the physical requirements and the military formation with a normal academic bachelor. A tough study to choose, but you end up with...