Tatiana Maria
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and given their discrete use of their titles, there is no reason to strip them off them (in which case they would revert back to using their Austrian titles)
I fully agree that discretion is the best possible way for non-working royals to handle being titled.
A minor clarification : The royal court did not refer to Amedeo and Maria Laura by their paternal family's pretended Austrian titles before they were created Prince and Princess of Belgium.
They received the titles at a time when there were no other grandchildren... It seems king Baudouin mainly wanted to be sure that if Philippe didn't end up having children, the crown wouldn't go to Laurent but to Astrid (and her descendants).
For King Baudouin and the Government, the publicly known reason for reforming the succession to the crown in 1991 was that they wanted to end the sex discrimination. See the information here:
Belgian Abdication, Succession and Constitutional Issues
Prince Laurent has indeed stated he believes King Baudouin's real motive was to ensure the crown would never reach Laurent, and there are royal experts who share his opinion. But the accusation is unproven and King Albert II has denied it.
The dotation is reserved for a very small number of family members. Currently, the king's siblings do receive a dotation but the future queen's siblings do and will not. So, it is even further curtailed.
That's exactly right. For anyone interested, here is the royal court's simple explanation of the current legislation (since 2014) dictating who in the Royal Family can and cannot receive taxpayer funds:
https://www.monarchie.be/en/information/contact
I don't think Philippe wants his nephews and nieces to be more involved -
I second this. I am afraid I haven't saved the reports, but I remember media reports on several occasions (discussed here on TRF at least once) which alleged that Princess Astrid and Prince Laurent were hurt and upset as they had been sidelined by King Philippe and he did not acknowledge (e.g. in official reports) all of their work events. The reports were not denied, if I recall, and they were consistent with the low profile that King Philippe has assigned to his siblings (Astrid is less prominent on the court's website and its social media compared to Gabriel, for example).
With Philippe's seeming reluctance to allow Astrid a prominent role, I cannot imagine him permitting her children to take on working royal duties. (And, as you said, there is no public demand for having so many working royals.)
Please remain in Belgium.
What do you mean by that?
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