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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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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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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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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Heysel Plateau (category Neighbourhoods of Brussels)
1725, the Palace of Schonenberg (today's Royal Palace of Laeken) between 1782 and 1784, and the Belvédère Castle in 1788. The Ferraris map of 1777 does...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Royal Trust (Belgium) (category Monarchy of Belgium)
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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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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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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Brussels Park (redirect from Park of Brussels)
"Royal Park" is in Laeken (northern Brussels), opposite the Royal Palace of Laeken and the Royal Domain, and is accessible by the Avenue du Parc royal/Koninklijk...
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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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Royal question (redirect from General strike against Leopold III of Belgium)
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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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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Lilian Baels (redirect from Princess Lilian of Belgium)
messages of congratulations to the palace at Laeken. Others, however, argued that the marriage was incompatible with the King's status as a prisoner of war...
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Banque Lambert (category Defunct banks of Belgium)
implementation of Leopold II's projects for the urban transformation of Brussels. In 1876, they helped the king remodel the surroundings of the Palace of Laeken, and...
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