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15 hours ago · Pope Francis meets with with King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of the Belgians inside Laeken Castle on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA. On his first full day in Belgium on Sept ...
6 hours ago · BRUSSELS — (AP) — Belgium's prime minister blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church's horrific legacy of clerical sex abuse and cover-ups, demanding "concrete steps" to come clean with the ...
1 day ago · His consort, Charlotte of Belgium, a daughter of King Leopold I of Belgium and a princess of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, encouraged her husband's acceptance of the Mexican crown and accompanied him as Empress Carlota of Mexico. The adventure did not end well.
12 hours ago · Updated 8:00 PM PDT, September 26, 2024. LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back. More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e ...
1 day ago · Branwell Brontë, self-portrait, 1840. The Brontës (/ ˈbrɒntiz /) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), are well-known poets and ...
3 days ago · Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, the 22-year-old heir apparent to the throne of the tiny European country, joined the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) in Boston last week. The Belgian royal household ...
4 days ago · Biography of Queen Charlotte. Queen Charlotte, born on May 19, 1744, in Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland), was the daughter of Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
