The Royalist - Astrid & Diana: Icons In Their Respective Kingdoms

Astrid & Diana: Icons In Their Respective Kingdoms

Written by Dr. Janice Seto
Thursday, 01 December 2005
Page 1 of 3 She will always be young, beautiful, and compassionate towards children and the disadvantaged. The youngest of three daughters, she and her younger brother Charles lived relatively simply in both the country and the city until her marriage at the age of 20. Killed in a car crash, her life is being celebrated in the capitol in an exhibition opening this month. In the UK, she is Diana, Princess of Wales. Queen of Hearts, the People’s Princess. In Belgium, she is Astrid, la Reine des Neiges, the Snow Queen. Unlike Diana, Astrid lived the fairytale. Seventy years ago, aged just 29, the young Queen Astrid of the Belgians, consort of Leopold III, mother of two princes and a princess, died while her husband was behind the wheel of their car. In her native Sweden, the exhibit there focused on the first part of her life, as the youngest daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark. In 1925, at a court ball, the visiting Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians and her son, the Duke of Brabant, Crown Prince Leopold, met the young Princess Astrid. << Start < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >>

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