Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz
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Mathilde Marie-Christine Ghislaine d'Udekem d'Acoz (born January 20, 1973 in Uccle / Ukkel ) is Queen of the Belgians and married to the Belgian King Philippe .
Life
The aristocrat from Belgian nobility was born as the daughter of the then Jonkheer and later Count Patrick d'Udekem d'Acoz (born April 28, 1936 - September 25, 2008) and Countess Anna Maria Komorowska (born September 24, 1946). Patrick d'Udekem d'Acoz is the son of Baron Charles d'Udekem d'Acoz (1885–1968) and Suzanne van Outryve d'Ydewalle (1898–1983). On the occasion of the marriage of his daughter to the Crown Prince, he (and his children) were raised to the hereditary count. The mother, Anna b. Countess Komorowska, is the daughter of Count Leon Michał Komorowski (* August 14, 1907 - September 13, 1992) and Princess Zofia Sapieha -Kodeńska (* October 11, 1919 - August 14, 1997). The Komorowski are an old Polish noble family, including Count Tadeusz Komorowski , leader of the Warsaw Uprising and Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile from 1947 to 1949 , as well as the former Polish President Bronisław Komorowski .
Mathilde has four younger siblings: Marie-Alix (* 1974; died on August 14, 1997, together with her maternal grandmother, Sophia Komorowska née Sapieha, in a car accident in Herstal ), Elisabeth (* 1977; married to Margrave Alfonso Pallavicini ), Hélène (* 1979) and Charles-Henri (* 1985). Mathilde grew up in the castle of Losange in Villers-la-Bonne-Eau (district of Bastogne , province of Luxembourg ).
After attending primary school in Bastogne and graduating from the Institut de la Vierge Fidèle in Brussels , Mathilde studied from 1991 to 1994 in Brussels at the Institut Libre Marie Haps . From 1995 to 1999 she had her own practice in the Belgian capital and worked there as a speech therapist; She also studied psychology at the Catholic University of Leuven , where she completed her psychology diploma cum laude in 2002.
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During her psychology studies, Mathilde met her future husband, Crown Prince Philippe of the Belgians, at a tennis game. For the next three years, the relationship was kept so well secret from the public that the engagement, announced in 1999, was an arranged marriage.
She is fluent in English , French , Italian and Dutch . She loves music (plays the piano herself), literature and sports.
The queen is particularly committed to children and has taken on the patronage of various projects. In 2000 the “Princess Mathilde Fund” was founded, which selects projects with the aim of supporting socially disadvantaged people and the weak.
Queen Mathilde is the godmother of Princess Alexia of Orange-Nassau and Princess Isabella of Denmark .
In 2007, like her husband Prince Philippe, she was invested in the Papal Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Carlo Cardinal Furno , and since 2010 she has held the rank of Lady of the Grand Cross. On November 17, 2015, Cardinal Grand Master Edwin Frederick Cardinal O'Brien was appointed Kollar lady.
Queen Mathilde received the Bambi in the Charity category in 2019 for her social commitment .
family
On December 4, 1999, Mathilde and Philippe married in the last royal wedding of the 20th century. Through her marriage, Mathilde received the title of Princess of Belgium .
Mathilde and Philippe have four children together:
- Elisabeth Thérèse Marie Hélène (born October 25, 2001 in Anderlecht )
- Gabriel Baudouin Charles Marie / Gabriël Boudewijn Karel Maria (born August 20, 2003 in Anderlecht)
- Emmanuel Leopold Guillaume François Marie (born October 4, 2005 in Anderlecht)
- Eléonore Fabiola Victoria Anne Marie (born April 16, 2008 in Anderlecht)
Trivia
After the divorce and the early death of Diana, Princess of Wales , née Lady Spencer, Crown Princess Mathilde was one of only three Europeans left, alongside Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein , née Duchess of Bavaria, and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Luxembourg , née Countess von Lannoy Heir apparent wives, who come from a noble house .
See also
Web links
- Mathilde in the Belgian royal family (with photo)
Individual evidence
- ^ "Mathilde entre dans l'Ordre du Saint-Sépulcre de Jérusalem" , RTBF , June 15, 2010 (French)
- ↑ “La princesse Mathilde, dame de grande-croix de l'Ordre du St Sépulcre” , sudinfo, June 14, 2010 (French)
- ↑ King Philippe of Belgium and Queen Mathilde by Cardinal Edwin O'Brien, Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher, appointed Kollarriter , OESSH Newsletter No. 41, 01/2016
- ↑ News: Bambi for Queen Mathilde of the Belgians. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .
| predecessor | Office | Successor |
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| Paola Ruffo di Calabria | Queen of the Belgians since 2013 |
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| SURNAME | Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mathilde of Belgium |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian nobles, Queen of the Belgians |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th January 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ukkel |