Princess astrid of belgium biography definition
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Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este
Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este (born 5 June 1962) is a daughter and second child of King Albert II and his wife Queen Paola of Belgium. Her godparents were Prince Don Fabrizio Ruffo di Calabria and her aunt Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg. She was born at the Château de Belvédère, near Laeken, and was named for her paternal grandmother, Astrid of Sweden, the popular first wife of Leopold III of Belgium.
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Marriage and issue
Princess Astrid married Archduke Lorenz of Austria-Este, the head of the Archducal House of Austria-Este, on 22 September 1984 at Brussels. Lorenz is the eldest son of the late Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este (1915—1996), and his wife Princess Margherita of Savoy (born in 1930).
Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz have fem children, who bear the surname "of Belgium" (in each of the three official languages) as members of the Belgian royal family:
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Astrid of Sweden (1905–1935)
Queen of the Belgians . Name variations: Astrid Bernadotte; Astrid of Belgium. Born Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra Bernadotte, princess of Sweden, on November 17, 1905, in Sweden; died in an automobile accident on August 29, 1935, near Küssnacht, Switzerland; buried in Laeken, Brussels, Belgium; daughter of Charles of Sweden and Ingeborg of Denmark(1878–1958); married Leopold III (b. 1901), king of the Belgians, on November 4, 1926; children: Baudoin (1930–1993), king of the Belgians; Albert II (b. 1934), king of the Belgians; Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium (b. 1927).
Astrid of Sweden was already a princess when she married Prince Leopold III of Belgium in 1926. Since her mother Ingeborg of Denmark was a sister of the king of Sweden, she had led a royal life. Among the people of Belgium, however, Astrid was known as the kind who did her own shopping, willingly stopped to talk with people on the streets, and did not put on airs. She had three chil
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Princess Astrid of Belgium and Archduke Lorenz of Austria
PA Images / Alamy Stock PhotoBeing the younger sister of King Philippe of Belgium may have meant that Princess Astrid missed out on becoming the reigning monarch of her native country, but the royal certainly leads the way when it comes to sovereign style. Born on 5 June 1962, Princess Astrid has always had a keen eye for fashion, committing to countless looks for the past half of a century.
Named after her grandmother, the first wife of King Leopald III of Belgium and pinnacle of early 1900s glamour, Queen Astrid of Sweden, it’s clear that the royal has taken her style cues from her ever-chic family. In 1984, she was wed in an exuberantly 1980s puffball sleeve confection of taffeta from local couturier Louis Mies. She paired it with the antique Ruffo di Calabria veil, originally worn by Queen Paola’s grandmother Laura Mosselman du Chenoy, and anchored it to her bouffant ‘do with a flower crown.
Since then, Astrid’s al