Women's love for jewelry is innate, not to mention those noble women in high positions, who are even more crazy about jewelry.
Like Queen Mary of England, she is a jewel maniac and has collected countless jewels in her life. Queen Mary, she has more jewels than the queen, and the story after six generations is more exciting than jewels.
Just like Vladimir, the grand duchess of Russia, her rich jewels are dazzling, and the famous crown of Vladimir is now on the head of Queen Elizabeth II. Duchess Vladimir, who made waves in the Russian royal family, dreamed of becoming a queen all her life.
Another example is Elizabeth II, who inherited countless jewels from her parents. She treasures them very much and seldom borrows them.
However, it is estimated that Lillian is rare in the whole European royal family for a princess who loves jewelry so much and spends so much.
Behind this, in addition to the enthusiasm for jewelry, there are stories of love and hate.
1 The protagonist of the story is Lillian. In Belgium, she is called Princess Les. She was born in London on1October 28th. 19 1 16.
Her ancestors came from fishmongers, but her family was better at making profits, and with her long service in the navy, she entered the official position. During the First World War, their whole family lived in England.
The situation is even worse when it comes to her father. He served as Belgian Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Interior and Minister of Public Health, and was highly valued by the king.
Lillian ranks eighth among brothers and sisters. Because her father was in a high position at that time, the family flourished in the business world, and Lillian lived comfortably since childhood.
A noble girl can ride a horse, ski, swim and hunt, and is also proficient in literature and art.
Linguistics, not only English, but also French, German and Dutch.
In addition, she is beautiful, lively and cheerful, which is very conspicuous among girls.
This kind of temperament, which is absolutely different from the royal aristocratic women, has become the biggest symbol of her uniqueness.
In fact, this is a bit like Camilla, the wife of Prince Charles in Britain now.
Everyone knows Diana is beautiful, but Charles likes Camilla. Aside from Charles' lack of emotional expertise, Camilla's absolutely different temperament from other aristocratic girls is a fatal temptation.
When you eat white rice every day, suddenly someone gives you a cake. This novelty is the most difficult to suppress.
What's more, they are utilitarian.
Lillian first met Leopold III at a military parade, when Leopold III was the Crown Prince.
When I saw him again, Queen astrid had just died in a car accident. This king with great value and status became the star in Lillian's eyes.
Queen astrid
Queen Elizabeth invited many nobles to get together to comfort her son, and Lillian was among them.
But the situation in Europe was already tense. 1940, Germany invaded Belgium, Leopold III surrendered, met Hitler, and appointed a group of pro-Germans. The anger of the Belgian people is beyond measure.
It happened that Leopold wanted to marry Lillian at the critical moment of this country's life and death.
Some people are not ignorant but selfish;
Some kings are not fatuous, but self-centered.
Leopold III, with superficial value but no courage, turned the life of an exiled government into a joke.
Astrid and Leopold III.
Of course Lillian is in it, and no one can escape.
Belgians are not only angry at the king's non-resistance policy, but also mixed with love for the late queen astrid.
The queen was born in the Swedish royal family, and her cousin was King Gustav VI of Sweden. As the most important princess in the Swedish royal family, astrid is highly respected.
It happened that she was dignified, kind and peaceful, and she personally expressed condolences to the army during the national disaster. She is the Bai Yueguang of the Belgians.
Shortly after the death of the first queen, Leopold III was going to marry a commoner, which was a period of national disaster.
The timing is not right, and Lillian's identity is also very embarrassing. At that time, the marriage between royal family and royal family was the most orthodox.
Lillian's father is a commoner, no matter how big his official position is.
The most disgusting thing is that as soon as the war broke out, Lillian's father fled to France with his family. This abandonment is contemptible.
But Leopold doesn't care so much. He insisted on marrying Lillian.
So in 1942, Lillian and Leopold got married secretly in the church of Lacken Castle.
It wasn't long before Lillian got pregnant. By the end of the year, things can't be hidden and have to be made public.
Leopold announced that Lillian would not be crowned queen, and the children after marriage would not inherit the throne.
Even Queen Elizabeth stepped forward. She said Lillian and Leopold were true love.
This sentence is very ironic, because she also said that astrid and Leopold are true love.
Angry Belgian people marched to demand the abolition of the king.
The pregnant Lillian followed Leopold everywhere.
After the war, Leopold's wartime behavior was liquidated one by one, and his status as king and royal family would be difficult to maintain.
Finally, Leopold III abdicated and his eldest son, baudouin, succeeded him, which stabilized the situation and saved the royal family.