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The Duke and Duchess of Brabant and their two older children Louise and Leopold, Count of Hainaut. Photography by François Deron, 1862. Granddaughter of King Leopold I of Belgium, Princess Louise was the first child of the Duke (future King Leopold II) and Duchess of Brabant (born Archduchess Marie Henriette of Austria), an unhappy and mismatched couple.
Leopold I [b] (born Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; 16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was the first king of the Belgians, reigning from 21 July 1831 until his death in 1865. The youngest son of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld , Leopold took a commission in the Imperial Russian Army and fought against Napoleon after French ...
Louise, Queen of the Belgians with her son Leopold, Duke of Brabant, later Leopold II of the Belgians. Louise and Leopold had four children, including Leopold II of Belgium and Empress Carlota of Mexico. Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium (24 July 1833 – 16 May 1834) King Leopold II of Belgium (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909)
At the time of his birth, his grandfather Leopold, formerly a Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was the reigning king of Belgium. Leopold was preceded in birth by one sister, Princess Louise , and followed by two more sisters, Princess Stéphanie , and Princess Clémentine , who was born after Leopold's death, their parents' last hope for ...
Princess Louise of Belgium (1858–1924), daughter of Leopold II, King of the Belgians; Princess Louise of Belgium (born 2004), daughter of Prince Laurent of Belgium and granddaughter of Albert II, King of the Belgians
Leopold passed away young, as the result of hemophilia, but not before having two children with his wife, Princess Helena—a daughter, Princess Alice, and a son, Charles Edward.
Louis-Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium (Louis Philippe Léopold Victor Ernest; 24 July 1833 – 16 May 1834), was the eldest child and heir-apparent of King Leopold I of the Belgians and his second wife, Princess Louise of Orléans.
Portrait of Leopold I of Belgium is an 1840 portrait painting by the German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter depicting Leopold I of Belgium. [1] [2] A German-born prince, Leopold had become the first King of the Belgians following the Belgian Revolution of 1830 that overthrew Dutch rule. He married a French princess Louise of Orléans in 1832.