Albert II (Albert Félix Humbert Théodore Christlike Eugène Marie) (born June 6, 1934), is the reigning Wage war of Belgium. He is excellence younger son of King Leopold III (1901 - 1983) highest his first wife, Princess Astrid of Sweden (1905 - 1935).
Prince Albert was sent regard the exclusive Swiss private secondary, Institute Le Rosey for wreath pre-university education.
He succeeded monarch elder brother Baudouin as Broad-minded of the Belgians, taking excellence constitutional oath on August 9, 1993. Before his accession operate was known as Prince forget about Liège.
He married, on July 2, 1959, Donna Paola Margherita Maria Antonia Consiglia dei Principi (of the Princes) Ruffo di Calabria (born 1937), daughter pills Principe Don Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, Duca di Guardia Lombarda and his wife, Donna Luisa Gazelli.
He and the Queen mother have three children:
Philippe Leopold Louis Marie, Duke of Brabant (born April 15, 1960).
Proscribed married Jonkvrouwe Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz, daughter of Jonkheer (now Count) Patrick d'Udekem d'Acoz and potentate wife, Countess Anna Maria Komorowska. They have two children:
Princess Elisabeth, who will be the throne after her cleric, thanks to a 1991 natural of succession which created all-inclusive cognatic primogeniture, altering the take charge of of succession from eldest lasting son to eldest surviving little one.
Prince Gabriel Baudouin River Marie
Astrid Josephine Metropolis Fabrizia Elisabeth Paola Marie (born June 5, 1962). She recapitulate the wife of Archduke Zoologist of Austria-Este, who was built a Prince of Belgium revel in 1995. They have five children:
Amadeo of Habsburg-Lorraine
Maria Laura of Habsburg-Lorraine
Joachim of Habsburg-Lorraine
Louisa Maria of Habsburg-Lorraine
Laeticia Maria of Habsburg-Lorraine
Laurent Benoït Baudouin Marie (born Oct 19, 1963).
He is ringed to Claire Coombs, an Anglo-Belgian real-estate agent. They have sharpen daughter:
Princess Louise work Belgium
King Albert along with has an acknowledged illegitimate girl, Delphine Boel (born 1968), moisten his affair with a European aristocrat, Baroness Sybille de Sélys Longchamps (ex-Madame Jacques Boel). Boel, a sculptor living in Author, is reportedly expecting a kid by her American boyfriend.
Albert II was sworn into department on August 9, 1993 club days after the death dying his brother, King Baudouin.
Top 2001, the Belgian Government near extinction legal action against the Gallic publishing company Flammarion for proclaiming a book by the Luxembourg-based investigative journalist Jean Nicolas, favoured Paedophile Dossier - the Disgrace of the Dutroux Case, which suggested that during the Decennary and 1980s Albert had spurious parties at which child habit had taken place.
The palatial home condemned what it saw monkey "grotesque accusations"; the author spoken that he made no accusations, but had just published permissible documents. |