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After reading a variety of news articles on the state of the Belgian government, I was wondering if zinzen or anyone else had some thoughts on this question. Will there be a unified Belgium as we now know it and will Prince Phillipe suceed his father King Albert at the end of his reign?
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« on: February 16, 2009, 01:13:39 AM » |
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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2009, 08:59:07 AM » |
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After reading a variety of news articles on the state of the Belgian government, I was wondering if zinzen or anyone else had some thoughts on this question. Will there be a unified Belgium as we now know it and will Prince Phillipe suceed his father King Albert at the end of his reign?
...lets hope that his wifey's knicker-bockers that she wore the other day with that revolting applique hasn't diminished his chances  G  |
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2009, 10:28:01 AM » |
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After reading a variety of news articles on the state of the Belgian government, I was wondering if zinzen or anyone else had some thoughts on this question. Will there be a unified Belgium as we now know it and will Prince Phillipe suceed his father King Albert at the end of his reign?
Me personaly hope so and I'm not the only one, but as I said before not everybody has the same opinion in Belgium, I must admit however that I prefer his father, but who knows he "might" be a good king  |
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2009, 11:17:49 AM » |
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After reading a variety of news articles on the state of the Belgian government, I was wondering if zinzen or anyone else had some thoughts on this question. Will there be a unified Belgium as we now know it and will Prince Phillipe suceed his father King Albert at the end of his reign?
Me personaly hope so and I'm not the only one, but as I said before not everybody has the same opinion in Belgium, I must admit however that I prefer his father, but who knows he "might" be a good king Philippe clearly loves his country. And that counts for a lot. |
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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2009, 01:16:48 PM » |
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After reading a variety of news articles on the state of the Belgian government, I was wondering if zinzen or anyone else had some thoughts on this question. Will there be a unified Belgium as we now know it and will Prince Phillipe suceed his father King Albert at the end of his reign?
Me personaly hope so and I'm not the only one, but as I said before not everybody has the same opinion in Belgium, I must admit however that I prefer his father, but who knows he "might" be a good king Philippe clearly loves his country. And that counts for a lot. ITA |
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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2009, 01:40:42 PM » |
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Albert is struggling quite a bit at the moment to keep the country together for his son and Mathilde. Phillipe may not be the most intelligent/handsome/whatever man, but he seems to have a very good heart and his wife is an absolute darling. That's what matters imho.
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« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2009, 04:43:17 PM » |
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Thank you everyone.
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« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2010, 07:29:16 PM » |
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Politicians certainly have their doubts about Filip, and prefer Astrid. It is said that Fillip finds his father a weak King, because he doesn't have the guts to stand up to politicians. Something his uncle Boudewijn did. Filip favors an absolute monarchy.
It also said Albert and Filip don't get along very well, as Albert doesn't have faith in his son. And Filip is very much seen as someone who favours Wallonia (to be fair, the whole family has that image) and Mathilde can't wait to be queen.
All this comes from Mario Danneels, who wrote the biography on queen Paola (where Delphine was mentioned for the first time), and these things found also their way into two other books (biography on Albert II and on Mathilde).
Mathilde is überreligous (she rejected to wear the blouse of her schooluniform. The collar was not high enough. And she was already at a very catholic school) and she and Paola are not the best friends.
Mathildes father got the two together, by letting them meet on tennisclubs. Mathildes mother is also very religious, and in my opinion (from the interviews Mathildes parents gave around the whole uncle Henri thing) she is very arrogant, almost bitchy, and very selfabsorbed.
Nobody dares to be critical about Mathilde, as she is seen as perfect (also in other countries), because of the 'blue blood'-factor. That's why a critical biography on Mathilde and her family didn't get much press or was slammed down in reviews. However, the interviews of Mathilde's parents and with uncle Henri on their family feud really gives some insight on how the d'Udekems are. These were earlier published (and done by) in a Belgian gossipmagazine ( I didn't get why the d'Udekems chose a gossip magazine at the time, and still don't get. Public Relations department was surely sleeping that time, but that's nothing new at royal courts). The interviews were just mud-throwing at each other, and Mathilde's parents took the chance to say how perfect and good their daughter was (it was sickening) and Henri was dishing/bashing his family.
So yeah, when Albert dies, we will have a problem. Yes, It can be Filip is indeed misunderstood and not that bad at all. But he doesn't man up and do something about the image he has. Same with Mathilde. Her Dutch is bad (not necessarily grammarwise, but she speaks it very slowly and with a fat French accent. She did the same institute as Máxima to learn Dutch, and Máxima almost got rid of her Spanish accent.), and she couldn't even speak Dutch at the engagement. Shame, shame, shame.
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« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2010, 07:37:37 PM » |
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Wow, I didn´t see the crown prince family in that way!  I heard, too, that some people prefer Astrid over Philipp. |
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« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2010, 08:05:49 PM » |
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Mathilde is überreligous (she rejected to wear the blouse of her schooluniform. The collar was not high enough. And she was already at a very catholic school) THAT is supposed to be überreligous?!  |
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« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2010, 08:17:36 PM » |
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IIRC, there were a lot of talk of Albert not being right for the throne, because of his party boy image, and being passed over for Philippe after Baudoin, and now people are talking about Philippe not being the right one...
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« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2010, 08:19:12 PM » |
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A pity that Alberts uncle Charles wasn´t the King.
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« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2010, 08:40:46 PM » |
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IIRC, there were a lot of talk of Albert not being right for the throne, because of his party boy image, and being passed over for Philippe after Baudoin, and now people are talking about Philippe not being the right one...
I agree with you I don't get it  But imo it's more about if the politicians will let him be king than anything else. And I thought that the superreligious is Astrid and Fabiola, Mathilde lived with her boyfirend before marrying no? Not very religious |
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« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2010, 01:41:44 AM » |
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A pity that Alberts uncle Charles wasn´t the King.
He would have been a good king, but he wasn't loved much, not even by his mother Queen Elisabeth!  |
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« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2010, 01:41:44 AM » |
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« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2010, 02:08:56 AM » |
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N* 1 Fabiola N* 2 Astrid N* 2 helped her "volage" parents to find the faith's route again, which apparently they did, I'm not convinced though|:|  They are in love again I'm not convinced either !|:| They were not good parents for their children Flupke at least with the help of Mathilde became a very good father, Mathilde has always liked children, she did psycho studies! Laurent was the child who was the less loved, he has apparently a nice little family, Claire, IMO is more classy than her SIL Not speaking of the dolphin (Delphine Boël) who has never been recognized by her father although she saw him regularly when she was a child Yes there has been "some" signs of a dysfunctional royal family in Belgium!!!!! But although not royalist, I don't dislike our royal family  But having so many sprogs, they do cost a lot of money to tax payers Wait and see If I suddenly disappear from RD, please try to find me, we also have our grey men  Zinzen |
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