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    The Palace of Laeken or Castle of Laeken (French: Château de Laeken; Dutch: Kasteel van Laken; German: Schloss zu Laeken) is the official residence of the...
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    mention Lachus in 1117. The Royal Palace of Laeken, official home of the Belgian royal family, is situated in Laeken. The palace was built in 1782–1784 by the...
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    monumental heated greenhouses in the park of the Royal Palace of Laeken (northern part of the City of Brussels), Belgium. The historic complex contains tropical...
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    Royal Palace of Laeken in northern Brussels. The website of the Belgian Monarchy describes the function of the Royal Palace as follows: The Royal Palace is...
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    the City of Brussels in 1897, twenty-four years before the rest of the municipality. Map of Laeken Palace of Laeken Church of Our Lady of Laeken Atomium...
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    residence of the Belgian royal family in Laeken, Brussels, which currently houses King Albert II and his wife, Queen Paola. It is near the Royal Palace of Laeken...
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    buildings of the Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark, Brussels Grand Staircase of the Royal Palace of Brussels Overview from the Royal Palace of Laeken, Brussels...
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    royal family, located in Laeken, Brussels. It is near the Royal Palace of Laeken, the official residence of the King and Queen of the Belgians. Another nearby...
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    Queen Louise-Marie, wife of King Leopold I, died in Ostend in 1850 and wished to be buried in Laeken. The nearby Palace of Laeken was, and still is, the...
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    of a miscarriage in April, but on 7 June 1840 at 1 a.m., Charlotte was born healthy at the Palace of Laeken. Initially disappointed by the birth of a...
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    Heysel Plateau (category Neighbourhoods of Brussels)
    neighbourhood, park and exhibition space in Laeken, northern Brussels, Belgium, where the Brussels International Exposition of 1935 and the 1958 Brussels World's...
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    Brussels from the end of 1940 until 1942. She then continued her education with her own private teachers at the Royal Palace of Laeken, where her family was...
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    Brussels (redirect from History of Brussels)
    nearby museums, and in Laeken, the Royal Palace of Laeken and the Royal Domain with its large greenhouses, as well as the Museums of the Far East. Also particularly...
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    born at the Palace of Laeken on 30 July 1872, at 6 p.m., three years after the accidental death of her older brother Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, the...
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    Belgian Court. He later remarked on the contrast of the Belgian Palace of Laeken to the splendor of the Imperial Viennese royal residences, not surprising...
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    arrest at the Palace of Laeken, from where he attempted to reach an understanding with the Germans, especially in respect of Belgian prisoners of war who were...
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    Although he has been credited as the architect of the Royal Palace of Laeken (for Prince Albert of Saxony, Duke of Teschen and his wife Archduchess Maria-Christina)...
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    and a younger sister, Princess Eléonore. He grew up at the Royal Palace of Laeken. Prince Gabriel was initially educated at the Dutch-language St John...
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    Political meetings with the King were moved from the Palace of Laeken to the Royal Palace of Brussels. In May 2019, Philippe met with Vlaams Belang...
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    chapel of the Palace of Laeken, where she received the names Stéphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte; her first two names were in honor of her...
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    Monument to the Dynasty (category City of Brussels)
    completes the monumental axis, which starts from the portal of the Royal Palace of Laeken, and which leads to the monument after crossing the Avenue du...
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    accepted. Their engagement was announced at the Palace of Laeken in 1959. The couple married at the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels on 2...
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    of Laeken (excluding the castle/palace itself) Royal Greenhouses of Laeken (used for state receptions etc.) Stuyvenberg Castle (former residence of Queen...
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    the Royal Palace of Laeken, the official residence of the King of the Belgians. This site is served by Stuyvenbergh metro station on line 6 of the Brussels...
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    Church of Our Lady of Laeken and backs onto the Palace of Laeken. The same year, on the initiative of the local Veterans' Front, a bronze bust of the Queen...
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    Arcadie Claret (category Mistresses of Belgian royalty)
    aid. Her new home was closer to the royal family's residence, the Palace of Laeken, and Leopold visited her and their children almost every day.[citation...
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    the form of receptions, balls and state banquets for the aristocracy in the royal Palace of Laeken. During the first years of his reign, most of the guests...
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    endowment. She and her half-brother, King Philippe of Belgium, met on 9 October 2020 at the Palace of Laeken. The next day, King Albert II reacted in a press...
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    of both Marie Henriette and Leopold, and was to be unhappy from the start. In April 1854, Leopold and Marie Henriette settled in the Palace of Laeken...
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    following day. Leopold became a prisoner of war and was placed under house arrest at the Royal Palace of Laeken, near Brussels. Furious that the King had...
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