The Exiled Belgian Royalist

The Mad Monarchist relates the story of Princesse Marie-Jose of Belgium who became the wife of the Prince of Piedmont and later the last ...

André Joseph Boussart was one of the most prominent Belgians to have served in the Revolution and in the French Napoleonic army. During h...

In the 2009 film "The Young Victoria" the part of King Leopold I of the Belgians was played by the talented German actor T...

Charles Albert Alexandre Louis Henri van der Burch was born into a prominent Belgian noble family in Aubry-du-Hainaut on April 24, 1779, ...

On April 21 (Birthday of the British Queen -happy birthday!) SAR Princesse Astrid attended a special memorial ceremony for the 10 Days Cam...

On April 19, 1839 the Kingdom of Belgium was officially recognized by the European powers in Treaty of London. I find it a little funny to...

This causes me some mixed feelings I will confess. A new law has just been signed into effect to allow for the greater cooperation and coo...

Prins Filip is klaar om zijn vader op te volgen wanneer hem dat wordt gevraagd. Dat zei hij aan het slot van zijn handelsmissie naat Vietnam...

Lambert-Paul Coenegracht was one of the many Belgian officers who lost their lives at the epic battle of Waterloo in the Dutch-Belgian Army ...

The Queen with the Queen of England in 1966 The Queen with King Mswati III of Swaziland The Queen (to be) with former King Leopold III Th...

The Hapsburg Imperial Family reigned over Belgium for a long time, Belgium did very well most of the time when the Hapsburgs were in charge,...

If you had to name a “golden age” for Belgium, before the independence of the modern kingdom, a definite answer would be the period when Bel...

Finally we come to our King today, Albert II, who is often made light of by the people who make a profession of mockery but who is held in h...

The memory of King Baudouin is still very respected in Belgium, I think, but also he has had his critics also. If he made some missteps, the...

King Leopold III may be the most unjustly criticized of all our kings and yet there was no one who did more to demonstrate that his selfless...

Thankfully, King Albert I is one of the most widely respected Belgian kings of history. He was greatly admired in his own time and became es...

King Leopold II is probably the most criticized of all the Belgian kings. If he is not it is only because people think no longer it is neces...

I have always thought Belgium is fortunate to have our monarchy. We have been fortunate because all of them have been great leaders in my op...