Embed from Getty Images
The Wedding Ball of King Baudouin of Belgium and Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón (wearing the Spanish Wedding Gift Tiara and the Wolfers Necklace) at the Royal Palace of Brussels in 1960, which was followed by another Banquet hosted by the Belgian Government at the Musée du Cinquantenaire in Brussels on the eve of their Wedding at the Cathedral of Saint Michael and Saint Gudula .
#RoyalFlashback | The Wedding Ball of King Baudouin of Belgium and Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón at the Royal Palace in Brussels #OnThisDay 60 years ago! https://t.co/qCzstuErL9 pic.twitter.com/HjzjIO20lx
— The Royal Watcher (@saadsalman719) December 13, 2020
#RoyalFlashback | The Wedding Ball of King Baudouin of Belgium and Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón at the Royal Palace in Brussels #OnThisDay 60 years ago! https://t.co/qCzstuErL9 pic.twitter.com/HjzjIO20lx
— The Royal Watcher (@saadsalman719) December 13, 2020Embed from Getty ImagesEmbed from Getty ImagesEmbed from Getty ImagesEmbed from Getty ImagesEmbed from Getty Images
Family members in attendance included Queen Elisabeth (grandmother of the groom, wearing her Cartier Bandeau Tiara), King Leopold III (father) and the Princess de Rethy (stepmother), Prince Albert (brother) and Princess Paola (sister-in-law, wearing Queen Elisabeth’s Bandeau), Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg (wearing the Luxembourg Empire Tiara), Hereditary Grand Duke Jean (brother-in-law), Hereditary Grand Duchess Josephine Charlotte (sister, wearing the Belgian Scroll Tiara), King Olav V of Norway (uncle), King Umberto (uncle) and Queen Marie-Jose of Italy (aunt, wearing her Musy Tiara). Royal Guests included Queen Juliana (in the Stuart Tiara) and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, King Michael and Queen Anne of Romania (wearing the Romanian Greek Key Tiara), Tsar Simeon of Bulgaria, Princess Margaret (in her Poltimore Tiara) and the Earl of Snowdon.
Princess Maria Pia of Savoy wearing Princess Olga's Diamond Kokoshnik Tiara https://t.co/LcLDhwsmwx pic.twitter.com/vHTWfl6qk7
— The Royal Watcher (@saadsalman719) November 1, 2020
Embed from Getty ImagesEmbed from Getty ImagesEmbed from Getty ImagesEmbed from Getty Images
Princess Maria Pia of Savoy wearing Princess Olga's Diamond Kokoshnik Tiara https://t.co/LcLDhwsmwx pic.twitter.com/vHTWfl6qk7
— The Royal Watcher (@saadsalman719) November 1, 2020— RoyalArjan (@RoyalArjan) December 13, 2020
Other royal guests included Prince Axel (uncle) and Princess Margaretha of Denmark (aunt, wearing the Khedive of Egypt Tiara), Crown Princess Beatrix (wearing the Antique Pearl Tiara) and Princess Irene of the Netherlands (wearing the Aquamarine Tiara), Princess Astrid of Norway (cousin, wearing the Vasa Tiara), Count Flemming and Countess Ruth of Rosenborg (wearing her Turquoise Star Tiara), Prince George Valdemar (cousin) and Princess Anne of Denmark (in her Diamond Tiara), Prince Alexander Princess Maria Pia of Yugoslavia (cousin, wearing the Princess Olga’s Diamond Kokoshnik Tiara), Princess Maria Gabriella (cousin, wearing Queen Margherita’s Diamond Wreath Tiara) and Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy (cousin, wearing the Diamond Flower and Wreath Tiara), Archduke Otto von Habsburg, the Princess Napoleon, the Duchess of Braganza (in the Diamond Bandeau Tiara), the Duchess of Bavaria (wearing the Eglantine Diamond and Pearl Tiara), Infanta Maria Christina of Spain, the Archduke and Archduchess of Austria-Este (wearing the Savoy-Aosta Tiara), the Marquis of Villaverde and the Duchess of Franco.
I love the way Queen Paola’s (then Princess) tiara compliments the embroidery on the top of her gown!