Some Belgian Royals!

 Somehow, I've not posted too often about the Belgian royals, not for any particular reason, it just seems that they don't appear as often in the news or whatever. But now that King Albert II has stepped down, Mathilde and Philippe are now the reigning monarchs! Yay for Queen Mathilde, what a beautiful name! Here are some not-so-recent pics of our lovely Belgian royals:

Crown Princess Mathilde and Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium at the abdication of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Queen Paola of Belgium and King Albert II.

Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde with their two first born children.

Mathilde and Philippe at the swearing in of Queen Maxim and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.

Glamorous Royals

Crown Princess Mathilde and Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium. Mathilde most often wears this olive leaf diamond tiara.

Crown Princess Maxima of the Netherlands in a striking silver and red dress, which is reminiscent of something that the Red Queen, from the Alice in Wonderland book, Through the Looking Glass, might have worn.

Maxima has many tiaras that she wears, and this is one of the largest. It was worn often by  Queen Juliana of the Netherlands.

Crown Princess Mathilde of Belgium.

Crown Prince Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway.

Queen Sonja wearing a diamond and emerald parure.

Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco, consort to King Mohammed VI of Morocco, is the first wife of a Moroccan ruler to have been publicly acknowledged and given a royal title.

A close-up of a dress worn by Princess Martha Louise of Norway.

Queen Paola of Belgium and King Albert II. 

Queen Paola of Belgium.

Queen Rania, at left, in her earlier days before she became Queen of Jordan. At  right, the starlet Queen Rania in all her glory.

Queen Sonja and King Harald of Norway.

Queen Sonja and King Harald of Norway.

The not-often seen Sarah, Duchess of York. She has managed to alienate herself away from the British royal family since her divorce from Prince Andrew in 1996.

Royal Weddings Revisited

Crown Princess Letizia and Crown Prince Felipe of Spain on their wedding day, 22 May 2004 in the Cathedral Santa María la Real de la Almudena in Madrid

Crown Princess Mary of Denmark on her wedding day, 14 May 2004 in Copenhagen Cathedral, in Copenhagen.

Actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco on their wedding day in the Palace Throne Room of Monaco on April 18, 1956.

Princess Marie of Denmark, wife of Prince Joachim, on her wedding day, 24 May 2008 in Møgeltønder Church.

Princess Martha Louise of Norway married Norwegian author Ari Behn on 24 May 2002 in Trondheim.

Queen Margrethe and Prince Consort Henrik were married on 10 June 1967 at the Church of Holmen in Copenhagen.

Queen Paola of Belgium on her wedding day in Brussels, Belgium, on 2 July 1959.

Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan in her super-fancy wedding dress, on 10 June 1993.

Queen Silvia and King Carl XVI Gustav on their wedding day, 19 June 1976, in Stockholm Cathedral ("Storkyrkan Cathedral") in Stockholm.