#Laetitia Maria of Belgium

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, April 23rd:

Malcolm IV, King of Scotland, 1141

Afonso II, King of Portugal, 1185

George of Poděbrady, King of Bohemia, 1420

Joan of France, Queen of France, 1464

Charlotte Amalie of Holstein-Plön, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, 1744

Aisha bint Al Hussein, Princess of Jordan, 1968

Zein bint Al Hussein, Princess of Jordan, 1968

Gabriella Kingston, Daughter of Prince Michael of Kent, 1981

Laetitia Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, 2003

Louis of Wales, British Prince, 2018

[royalchildreneurope]

New : In September 2023, Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium will attend a university in Buenos Aires, Argentina to continue her studies in journalism.

This comes after she made a internship at Tatler and after leading an educational project in the favelas of São Paulo, Brazil -August 8th 2023.

[ifreakingloveroyals]

Happy 21st Birthday Laetitia Maria Nora Anna Joachim Zita! (b. 23 April 2003)

[thecatalogueofroyalfashion]

Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium  ||  Maje

[flowerwreaththings]

September 25, 2021 | Princess Astrid’s family attended the wedding of Princess Marie-Astrid of Liechtenstein and Ralph Worthington at the Orbetello Cathedral in Capalbio, Italy.

[celticcrossanon]

Can you please do a reading on upcoming young royals and whether they are problematic or arrogant etc. or any issues underlying or hidden from the public

By young royals I mean; Ingrid Alexandra & Sverre Magnus of Norway | Maud, Leah & Emma Behn | Catharina Amalia, Alexia & Ariane of Netherlands | Eloise, Claus-Casimir & Leonore of Netherlands | Christian, Isabella, Vincent & Josephine of Denmark | Leonor & Sofia of Spain | Elisabeth, Gabriel, Emmanuel & Eleonore of Belgium | Maria Laura, Joachim, Luisa María & Laetitia Maria of Belgium | Louise, Nicholas & Aymeric of Belgium | Nikolai & Felix + Henrik & Athena of Denmark | Joseph Wenzel, Marie Caroline, Georg & Nikolaus of Liechtenstein | Alfons of Liechtenstein | Gabriel & Noah of Nassau | Alexandra & Sébastien of Luxembourg | Gabrielle of Austria | Josef-Emanuel of Liechtenstein | Charlotte Casiraghi | Alexandra of Hanover | Louis & Pauline Ducruet + Camille Gottlieb | Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste | Hussein, Iman, Salma & Hashem of Jordan | Maria Olympia, Constantine Alexios, Achilleas Andreas, Odysseas Kimon & Aristidis Stavros of Greece | Vittoria & Luisa of Savoy | Afonso, Maria Francisca & Dinis of Portugal

Hi Nonny,

That is a lot of royals! I couldn't possibly read on all of them and still keep up with my main interest, the BRF. I believe many of those individuals are still children, and I do not feel comfortable reading on children. 16 years old is around my cut off limit for reading on people.

I know I did a reading last year on Princess Catharina-Amalia, and now I can't find it. I was going to put the link here for you.

Edit: Found it! https://celticcrossanon.tumblr.com/post/666383445314945024/dutch-royal-family-reading-29th-of-october-2021

[european-royalties]

More royal guests at the wedding of Princess Maria Annunciata and Emanuel Musini. 1st 📸 Princess Laetitia Maria and her father Prince Lorenz of Belgium. (Archduke of Austria-Este) 2nd 📸 Prince Amedeo of Belgium with his wife Princess Elisabetta and sister Princess Maria Laura. 3rd 📸 Prince Louis of Luxembourg with fiancee Scarlett-Lauren Sirgue. #EuropeanRoyalFamilies #EuropeanMonarchies #EuropeanRoyalties #RoyalWedding https://www.instagram.com/p/CTg0FayFo1d/?utm_medium=tumblr

[amedeo--aviano]

About.

name: Amedeo Marie Joseph Carl Pierre Philippe Paola Marcus d’Aviano, Prince of the Belgians, certainly. gender: Male.  age: Thirty-two.  birthday: February 21.  background: Belgian and Italian on his mother and father’s sides of the family, peppered with French and Swedish through his grandparents.  hometown: Born, raised and educated in Brussels, Belgium.  family Members: — father: Lorenz d’Aviano | Sixty-Two | King of the Belgians — mother: Astrid d’Aviano, maiden name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | Fifty-Six | Queen Consort of Belgium — siblings: Maria Laura d’Aviano | Twenty-Nine Joachim d’Aviano | Twenty-Seven Luisa Maria d’Aviano | Twenty-Two Laetitia Maria d’Aviano | Fifteen  — spouse: Sofia d’Aviano, maiden name von Habsburg | Twenty-Four | Very, very pregnant orientation: Heterosexual. relationship status: Quite married. Who’d ever have thought it?  former college or university: London School of Economics, where he completed his Bachelors Degree, followed by Columbia University with the aim of being at least geographically closer to his then-fiancée. major: Master of Business Administration. occupation: A Management Consultant for Deloitte, based briefly out of New York City. He’s since relocated back to Belgium, to marry his longtime fiancée, and take more royal duties on board on behalf of his parents. pets: An assortment of hunting dogs, and a pair of German Shepherds, with plans to adopt several more now that he has the space for them all indoors and out.

likes: — — — — — — — — — — dislikes: — — — — — — — — — — strengths: — — — — — weaknesses: — — — — — one quirk: one pet peeve: one goal: one fear: face claim: Sam Claflin.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

A look at the Belgian line of succession

By Jess IIse

11th July 2019

PHOTO: LAURA DEKKERS & DJARA VAN HOVE

Today we’re looking at the line of succession to the Belgian throne.

Current Monarch: King Philippe, who succeeded his father, King Albert II, on 21 July 2013 after he stepped down for health reasons.

Photo: Laura Dekkers

King Philippe was considered by many to be the heir to his uncle, King Baudouin, but after his death in 1991, Baudouin’s younger brother, Albert succeeded to the throne.

The line of succession to the Belgian throne is as follows:

1. Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant

Seventeen-year-old Princess Elisabeth is the eldest child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde and became the heiress apparent to the Belgian throne in 2013 when her father succeeded her grandfather, King Albert II. She assumed the title Duchess of Brabant at that time.

Photo: Laura Dekkers

Thanks to a new succession law created ten years before her birth, Princess Elisabeth could not be replaced in the line of succession by the birth of a younger brother – she has two: Prince Gabriel and Prince Emmanuel – and will be Belgium’s first queen regnant if she assumes the throne as expected.

Princess Elisabeth currently studies at the UWC Atlantic College in Wales and will graduate in May 2020, though she won’t officially take up royal duties until she’s finished with schooling. She speaks Dutch, French, German and English and is the first (future) Belgian monarch whose education began in Dutch.

She also has a research station in Antarctica named after her, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, as well as a hospital in Ghent, the Princess Elisabeth Children’s Hospital.

2. Prince Gabriel

Prince Gabriel is the second child and first son born to King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, and he was born on 20 August 2003. He attends school in Brussels and is reportedly a big sports fan and athlete, participating in football, cycling, tennis, swimming, skiing, sailing, and hockey.

3. Prince Emmanuel

Prince Emmanuel is the third child and second son of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, and he was born on 4 October 2005. One of his godfathers is Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg.

Prince Emmanuel currently attends the Eureka special school in Kessel-Lo, which he attends due to his dyslexia. He is also a huge sports fan and athlete and plays the flute.

4. Princess Eléonore

Princess Eléonore is the youngest child and second daughter of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde and was born on 16 April 2008. Her two godmothers are Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Princess Claire of Belgium.

Princess Eléonore is also musical; she plays the violin and has accompanied her mother to the musical Queen Elisabeth Competitions.

5. Princess Astrid, Archduchess of Austria-Este

PHOTO: STEFANO CHIOLO (CC BY 2.0) VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Princess Astrid, Archduchess of Austria-Este, is the younger sister of King Philippe and the only daughter of King Albert II and Queen Paola.

She married Archduke Lorenz of Austria-Este in 1984 and has five children with him, all of whom are in the line of Belgian succession.

Though her family is in the line of succession now, that wasn’t always the case. Belgium still practised agnatic primogeniture at the time of her marriage, which meant that Princess Astrid had no rights to the throne.

When absolute primogeniture was established in 1991, Princess Astrid was placed back in the line of succession – after Parliament confirmed that, though she hadn’t received consent for her marriage because she hadn’t needed to ask for it, she would have received it if she’d needed it – along with her children.

6. Prince Amedeo, Archduke of Austria-Este

Prince Amedeo is the oldest son of Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz and was born on 21 February 1986. His godparents are King Philippe and Queen Paola.

His succession rights were only confirmed in 1991, and it was thought that he’d lost them when he married Italian Elisabetta Rosboch von Wolkenstein in 2014 as no royal authorisation was published.

In 2015, King Philippe published an article granting his retroactive permission, confirming that Prince Amedeo was still in line to the Belgian throne.

He and Princess Elisabetta have one daughter, Archduchess Anna Astrid, and it was recently revealed that they are expecting their second child.

7. Archduchess Anna Astrid of Austria-Este

Currently, the youngest person in line to the Belgian throne is Archduchess Anna Astrid, the only child of Prince Amedeo and Princess Elisabetta. She was born on 17 May 2016 in Brussels.

8. Princess Maria Laura, Archduchess of Austria-Este

Princess Maria Laura, Archduchess of Austria-Este, is the oldest daughter of Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz of Belgium and was born on 26 August 1988.

Princess Maria Laura keeps a low profile and has studied in Brussels, London, China, and Paris.

9. Prince Joachim, Archduke of Austria-Este

Prince Joachim, Archduke of Austria-Este, is the second son of Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz and was born on 9 December 1991.

Unlike his older brother and sister, Prince Joachim was born a Prince of Belgium, as his grandfather, King Albert II, had succeeded to the throne by the time of his birth. Prince Amedeo and Princess Maria Laura were several years old before they were given royal titles and placed in the line of succession.

Prince Joachim is an officer in the Belgian Navy.

10. Princess Luisa Maria, Archduchess of Austria-Este

Princess Luisa Maria, Archduchess of Austria-Este, is the second daughter of Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz and was born on 11 October 1995.

She is the first Belgian princess to be born with succession rights to the throne, as she was born after the 1991 change to absolute primogeniture. Princess Luisa Maria is reportedly studying at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

11. Princess Laetitia Maria, Archduchess of Austria-Este

Princess Laetitia Maria, Archduchess of Austria-Este (above on the right), is the last child and third daughter of Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz and was born on 23 April 2003.

She is currently a student at Bromsgrove School in Worcestershire.

12. Prince Laurent

Prince Laurent is the youngest child of King Albert II and Queen Paola and was born on 19 October 1963.

At the time of his birth, he was third in line to the throne, but after absolute primogeniture was established, he was displaced by his older sister, Princess Astrid, and her family, and has now dropped to 12th in line.

Known as something of a black sheep in the Belgian Royal Family, Prince Laurent has seen his share of scandals. He married Princess Claire in 2003, and they have three children.

13. Princess Louise

Princess Louise is the only daughter of Prince Laurent and Princess Claire and was born on 6 February 2004.

14. Prince Nicolas

Prince Nicolas (above, third from left) is the second child and oldest son of Prince Laurent and Princess Claire and was born on 13 December 2005. He has a younger twin brother, Prince Aymeric.

15. Prince Aymeric

Prince Aymeric is the third child and youngest son of Prince Laurent and Princess Claire and was born on 13 December 2005.

Prince Aymeric, Prince Nicolas and Princess Louise all study at the Lycée Français de Bruxelles.

Source:  https://royalcentral.co.uk/features/a-look-at-the-belgian-line-of-succession-126657/

Disclaimer:  Credits to the rightful owners for the images used.

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[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, April 23rd:

Malcolm IV, King of Scotland, 1141

Afonso II, King of Portugal, 1185

George of Poděbrady, King of Bohemia, 1420

Joan of France, Queen of France, 1464

Charlotte Amalie of Holstein-Plön, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, 1744

Aisha bint Al Hussein, Princess of Jordan, 1968

Zein bint Al Hussein, Princess of Jordan, 1968

Gabriella Kingston, Daughter of Prince Michael of Kent, 1981

Laetitia Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, 2003

Louis of Wales, British Prince, 2018

[royalchildreneurope]

Happy 20th Birthday to Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium -April 23rd 2023.

[ifreakingloveroyals]

5 July 2014 | Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium attends the wedding of Prince Amedeo of Belgium and Elisabetta Maria Rosboch Von Wolkenstein at Basilica Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, Italy. (c) Elisabetta Villa/Getty Images

[thearrangment-phff]

Characters- Continued

Tessy Antony, former wife of Prince Louis of Luxembourg, cousin of Isabella. Princess Claire of Luxembourg, wife to Prince Felix of Luxembourg, cousin of Isabella. Grand Duchess Maria Teresa and Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, aunt and uncle of Isabella. Hereditary Grand Duchess Stephanie wife to Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg cousin of Isabella. Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg, cousin of Isabella. Prince Sebastien of Luxembourg, cousin to Isabella

Prince Wenceslas of Nassau, cousin to Isabella

Princess Maria Anunciata of Liechtenstein, Prince Josef Emmanuel of Liechtenstein, Princess Marie Astrid of Liechtenstein, cousins to Isabella

Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este and his wife Archduchess Elisabetta of Austria-Este, Princess Maria Laura, Archduchess of Austria-Este, Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este (Red dress), and Princess Luisa Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, all second cousins to Isabella

[royalfandomunity]

Happy Birthday to princesaestelle (the 1st), duchesskatemidd (the 2nd), thecambridgechildren (the 5th), everythingroyalty (the 10th), kronprinsenfrederik (the 13th), kronprinsessa (the 15th), theroyalsandi (the 21st), fakeituntilyoumakeitphff (the 28th), and phff-myheroine (the 29th). We wish you all wonderful days with happiness, love, and lots of cake :)

Some royals with April birthdays include:Lord Frederick Windsor (the 6th), Leah Isadora Behn (the 8th), Princess Ariane of The Netherlands (the 10th), King Philippe of The Belgians (the 15th), Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (the 16th),  Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg (the 16th), Prince Seeiso Bereng Seeiso of Lesotho (the 16th), Prince Sebastian of Luxembourg (the 16th), Princess Eleonore of Belgium (the 16th), Prince Alexander of Sweden (the 19th), Queen Elizabeth II (the 21st), Princess Isabella of Denmark (the 21st), Lady Gabriella Windsor (the 23rd), Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium (the 23rd), King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (the 27th), Lady Helen Taylor (the 28th), Princess Benedikte of Denmark (the 29th), Maud Angelica Behn (the 29th), Infanta Sofia of Spain (the 29th), and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (the 30th). 

[thewales-family]

Prince Nicolas (12 years old) of Belgium and Princess Laetitia Maria (14 years old) of Belgium attend the annual Christmas concert at the Royal Palace in Brussels , Belgium 🎄 -December 20th 2017. . Cousins 💕💙😊.

[atcostmag]

At Cost Magazine - Blog Digest #12 - Pax Europa

RAVVEL (shown above)

Our latest blog digest is inspired by Belgium, the land of chocolate and the neurological center of the European Union. In this short and sweet compilation, we display a variety of tracks from the chocolatey smooth to leading edge of pop music today. 

Chackie Jam -  "Shotokan (Take Me With You)"

A synthpop collective which in their own words makes "guilty pleasure synthpop", "Shotokan (Take Me With You)" is the latest cut from the Belgian band with the cheeky moniker. A little jazz, funk and soul to glowing gobs of amorphous synth, the track is fun and not too serious as shown through its brightly-hued synthesizer pastels:

Float Fall - “Hard Time Loving You”

Ruben and Rozanne constitute the pairing of Brussels' Float Fall, with their latest track "Hard Time Loving You" bridging the harmonies between their two voices. It's a track which carries a lofty air, with the billowing synth sound of its resonant delivery alternating between Rozanne's wispy sweet and Ruben's husky howl.

Pale Grey - “Hunter”

Gilles, Maxime, Janjannes and Simon are members of Pale Grey, a Belgian indie-pop four piece hailing from Brussels. Their latest track is soft and breezy, with light resonant bass lines snapping over synth quirk and flowing to the ooze of sweet and honeyed twee pop vocals.    

RAVVEL - “Pick Your Poison”

"Pick Your Poison" is the debut track from Antwerp's RAVVEL that illustrates a dark, foreboding mythology. Walking between the organics of her acoustic guitar and an otherworldly electronic, the track's deep pulsing penetration drifts to the ethereal beauty of RAVVEL's ghostly float.

Sonnfjord - “Fresh Heart”

Sonnfjord is comprised of Brussels vocalist Maria-Laetitia Mattern and her brother Aurelio Mattern on keys alongside bassist François de Moffarts. Light and fluttery electropop, their latest track "Fresh Heart" contrasts the sad and sullen to the youthful squeak Maria-Laetitia's beaming falsettos. Beating over the snap of resonant basslines that's contrasted to an ambient piano sombre, the track is emotively-rich yet not adverse to the beat-driven.

ULYSSE - “Mañana”

Arnaud, Benoit and Julien are ULYSSE, a synth-pop trio from the Belgian capital. With their latest track "Mañana", ULYSSE paint the diverse styles of their ecletic, electro-pop palette. Juxtaposing funky synth wonk to steady disco grooves, the track is coated by the silken smooth of Arnaud's vocals for the colorful video that is their single “Mañana"