Princess Eléonore of Belgium

Infobox Belgian Royalty|princess
name = Princess Eléonore
title = Princess Eléonore of Belgium


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full name = Eléonore Fabiola Victoria Anne Marie
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date of birth = Birth date|2008|04|16 (age for infant|abbr=yes|2008|4|16)
place of birth = Anderlecht, Belgium
father = Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant
mother = Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant
royal house = House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

Princess Eléonore of Belgium (Eléonore Fabiola Victoria Anne Marie; born 16 April 2008) is the second daughter and fourth child of Prince Philippe of Belgium, Duke of Brabant, the heir apparent to the throne of Belgium, and his wife Princess Mathilde. She is the thirteenth grandchild of Albert II, King of Belgium, including the two children of the king's illegitimate daughter, Delphine Boel. The princess was born at 4h50 at the Erasmus Hospital in Anderlecht. She weighed 3.2 kg and was 50 cm long at birth.nl icon [http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=DMF16042008_002 De Standaard Online - Prinses Mathilde bevallen van dochtertje] ] [ [http://news.smh.com.au/daughter-born-to-belgiums-royal-family/20080416-26jq.html Daughter born to Belgium's royal family] , April 16, 2008, Sydney Morning Herald, retrieved 2008-04-17]

She was baptised on June 14, 2008 in the chapel of the Castle of Ciergnon in the Belgian Ardennes, by Cardinal Godfried Danneels, the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels. Her godparents are Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Princess Claire of Belgium, and Count Sébastien von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg.

Names

*Eléonore - is a name her parents liked, and it kept the tradition of El-/-el names in the family.
*Fabiola is for her great-aunt, Queen Fabiola of Belgium.
*Victoria is for her godmother, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.
*Anne is for her maternal grandmother, Countess Anna d'Udekem d'Acoz.
*Marie is for the Virgin Mary, as per tradition with Catholic royalty. It is also the second name of her maternal grandmother.

References

External links

* [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/belgium.html Royal House of Belgium]

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DATE OF BIRTH= 2008-04-16
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