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I wonder why the link refers to the baby as "la princesse Anna Astrid" when Anna Astrid is not a princess of Belgium under the current royal decree of 2015. I suppose the Habsburgs and their followers still consider Anna Astrid a princess in Hungary , Austria and Bohemia, but, in any case, the practice in Austria-Hungary would be to address her as an archduchess, even if that rank is in practice equivalent to a princess.
On the other hand, as Tatiana Maria once remarked here, the actual text of the royal decree seems to imply that the descendants in male line of KIng Léopold I are still considered princes / princesses, though not princes/princesses of Belgium, which is a title reserved now for children and grandchildren of the sovereign and the heir to the throne only and, as a transitional provision, for the children and grandchildren of KIng Albert II in particular. Under that interpretation, Anna Astrid could still be a princess of some sort, though not a princess of Belgium.
It is all very confusing !
PS: There is a forum about titles and styles of the Belgian royal family, isn't there ? Maybe that post could be moved there.
weren't the Habsburg-Lorraine incorporated into Belgium's nobility as HSH Prince/sse de Habsburg-Lorraine.