Welcome to the 1st thread for King Philippe's current events.
Please post current news and pictures only of King Philippe in this thread.
On his first work day as King, Philippe today, July 22nd, received members of the government and several other officials.
King Philippe today, August 17, officially attended the European Hockey Championships 2013 in Boom. He was accompanied by Prince Gabriel.
Prince Gabriël is so handsome !
I'm so delighted to see the little guy.
Look at how big Gabriel is growing!
All of Philippe and Mathilde's kids will be taller than average, I think!
He was already tall when he was born. He is extremely handsome !
What lovely pictures of King Philippe with his son. Gabriel is extrmely handsome.
Beautiful boy. Great he got some alone time with dad.It can't be easy with his dads royal duties and being one of four.
Here is a sweet story about Gabriel at the European Hockey Championships. As Gabriel is playing hockey at the White Star Evere, someone asked Gabriel how many goals he had scored this season and Gabriel hesitated a bit and then answered "42". Philippe knew better and said it had been 72 goals actually whereupon Gabriel replied that he didn't mention the real score because he didn't want to sound pretentious .
What a sweet and modest boy!
Is there a source where we can read about this?
Now that's a young man who's been raised right. I'm guessing this is Field Hockey?
Belgian media report that belgian people's confidence in K.Philippe/Filip has risen from 51% in june (when he was still crownprince) to 69% in august (after becoming King).
I am happy that the confidence is up. As Theo Aronson already wrote in 'The Coburgs from Belgium': The Belgian Coburgs blossom late in life'. It is remarkable that even in Flanders confidence is 60% (in Wallonia it even is 82%).
I think the thing is that Philippe now looks very confident, not as shy as he used to be as Crown Prince and having someone who's as charismatic as Mathilde by his side helps a lot as well.
King Philippe has met with Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo for their weekly meeting in Brussels today, September 16, 2013.
King Philippe has received the President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev in Brussels today, September 18, 2013.