maandag 18 maart 2024

COMING UP Incoming State Visit from Luxembourg

Grand Duke Henri & Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg will be making a state visit to Belgium in April 2024. Henri & Philippe are first cousins. This will be the 11th incoming state visit of King Philippe's reign.


Here are some details of the planned activities

16 April 2024

Ceremonial welcome at the Place des Palais in Brussels.

Visit to the Brussels city hall.

State banquet at the castle of Laeken.

17 April 2024

Mathilde & Maria Teresa visit the exhibition "Histoire de ne pas rire. Surrealism in Belgium" at Bozar in Brussels.

Visit to North Sea Port & Anglo Belgian Corporation in Ghent.

Lunch at the new Provinciehuis.

Mathilde accompanies the Luxembourg Grand Ducal Couple to the Sint-Baafs cathedral where they witness Jan Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece (Lam Gods).

Return concert of the Luxembourg Philharmonic at Flagey in Brussels.

18 April 2024

Mathilde and Maria Teresa visit Child Focus in Brussels.

Thematic lunch about Belgo-Lux cross-border partnerships, at the Prince-Bishop's Palace in Liège.

A walkabout at the Place Saint-Lambert in Liège closes the state visit.

European Humanitarian Forum

18 March 2024

As promotor of the SDGs, Queen Mathilde took part in the 3rd European Humanitarian Forum which was held at Flagey in Brussels.

With Janez Lenarcic, European Commissioner for Crisis Management and Belgian Minister for Development, Caroline Gennez.





There was one particular panel discussion Mathilde wanted to attend: 'The hidden cost of conflict: addressing sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo”.

As she promised on her visit to Dr Mukwege's hospital in Congo in 2023, Mathilde uses every occasion she finds to voice the pain and trauma of the Congolese women and children who are victims of sexual violence, used as a weapon of war.



zondag 17 maart 2024

Elisabeth meets Obama

17 March 2024

Crown Princess Elisabeth (22) was over from Oxford for a meeting with former US President Barack Obama at the castle of Laeken. 


Elisabeth was wearing a new suit by Jigsaw.

zaterdag 16 maart 2024

Week van de zorg 2024

15 March 2024

Queen Mathilde made a visit to the youth department of the psychiatric hospital of Medisch Centrum Sint-Jozef in Munsterbilzen, K-Delta.

The Queen arrived at 10:00.


videohttps://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/03/15/koningin-mathilde-op-bezoek-in-psychiatrisch-ziekenhuis-sint-joz/  

She talked to some of the young residents and their supervisors for half an hour. 




Afterwards she was shown the Cozy Room where children can relax, and she was invited to join a creative therapy session.




Mathilde aldo talked to the staff and visited the hospital's classroom. 

At 11:30 it was time to say goodbye.














donderdag 14 maart 2024

Flashback: Women's Congress

14 March 2009 

Princess Mathilde attended a women's congress at the Flemish Parliament in Brussels.



















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