Former Queen Fabiola of Belgium dies aged 86 years.

L’ancienne reine des Belges Fabiola est décédée

par Rédaction de France Info vendredi 5 décembre 2014 19:32

L’ancienne reine des Belges Fabiola, ici en octobre 2013 © Maxppp Queen Fabiola in Oct 2013

C’est le Palais royal qui l’annonce vendredi soir dans un communiqué. “Leurs Majestés le Roi et la Reine et les Membres de la Famille Royale annoncent avec une très grande tristesse le décès de Sa Majesté la Reine Fabiola, survenu ce soir au Château du Stuyvenberg à Bruxelles”. L’ancienne reine des Belges Fabiola, veuve du roi Baudouin, avait 86 ans.

The Royal Palace announced on Friday evening in a communique “Their Majesties King and Queen and the Members of the Royal Family announce with great sadness the death of Her Majesty Queen Fabiola, which took place this evening in the Chateau Stuyvenberg in Brussels”. The former Queen of the Belgiums Fabiola, widow of King Baudouin, was 86 years old.

Elle a été la cinquième reine des Belges. Dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, devenue la reine Fabiola après son mariage avec Baudouin en 1960, était née le 11 juin 1928 à Madrid, dans une famille de la noblesse espagnole. Discrète depuis le décès brutal du roi Baudouin en 1993, elle était restée dans l’ombre du roi Albert et de la reine Paola. Elle avait fait une apparition publique en l’an dernier lors de la  passation de pouvoir entre le roi Albert II, qui avait succédé à son frère Baudouin, et son neveu Philippe.

She was the fifth queen of the Belgians. Dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, became Queen Fabiola after her marriage with Baudouin in 1960, she was born on 11 June 1928 in Madrid, into a noble Spanish family. Staying discrete since the sudden death of her husband (31 July 1993, Motril, Espagne) by heart attack, she stayed in the shadow of king Albert and queen Paola. She appeared once in public in the past year during the passing from Albert II, (who succeeded his brother Baudouin), and to her nephew Philippe.

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