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Astrid of Sweden (Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra; 17 November 1905 – 29 August 1935) was a member of the Swedish House of Bernadotte and later became Queen of the Belgians as the first wife of King Leopold III. Following her marriage to Leopold in November 1926, she assumed the title of Duchess of Brabant. [2]
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner (Astrid Maud Ingeborg; born 12 February 1932) is the second daughter of King Olav V and his wife, Princess Märtha of Sweden. She is the older sister of King Harald V of Norway and younger sister of the late Princess Ragnhild .
Princess Astrid was born one day before her father's 28th birthday at the Belvédère Château in Laeken, northern Brussels, and was named after her late paternal grandmother, Astrid of Sweden, King Leopold III's popular first wife, who had died in 1935 in a car accident aged 29.
Prince Carl of Sweden and Norway (1861–1951), Duke of Västergötland Prince Carl, Duke of Östergötland (1911–2003) Princess Margaretha of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (1899–1977) Crown Princess Märtha of Norway (1901–1954), née Princess of Sweden and Norway; Queen Astrid of the Belgians (1905–1935), Princess of Sweden; Prince Eugen ...
Queen Astrid of the Belgians with her daughter Joséphine-Charlotte. Joséphine-Charlotte was born in 1927 at the Royal Palace of Brussels. She was the oldest child and only daughter of the King Leopold III of Belgium and his first wife, Princess Astrid of Sweden. She was christened a month after her birth.
Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria, and Princess Sofia wore their best jewels last night in Stockholm. The Swedish Royal Family Wore Showstopping Tiaras to the 2023 Nobel Prize Ceremony Skip to ...
Among others, she was seen by some as a possible wife for the heir apparent to the British throne, Edward, Prince of Wales, who was her second cousin. [4] Her mother, Princess Margaret of Connaught , and the Prince's father, King George V , were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Queen Victoria .
The Danish queen celebrated her golden jubilee this year. Here, take a look back at Queen Margrethe's life—from her childhood in Copenhagen through her annual summer vacation in France.