Posted by Henri M on July 7, 2013, 4:40 am, in reply to "Re: Queen Fabiola"
Well, it is still Queen Fabiola's life work (and that of her late husband) to have a Carthusian monastery build (1993) and running on the domain around the royal villa Fridhem in Limbourg. The amount of private money it must have cost to build the monastery and for its exploitation in the past 20 years... Add this to the fact that Queen Fabiola has abstained wearing grand jewels, never wore Orders (not even from her own Belgium) except a Vatican one, then the nickname 'Nun-Queen' is fitting somewehere.
I agree with you that Queen Fabiola looked very glamorous in the 1950's and 1960's.