Posted by Henri M on October 21, 2013, 11:45 am, in reply to "Re: Brooch Mystery"
What do you mean with Queen Fabiola auctioning her jewels? In this case I understood that the brooch was purchased in 1984 (on an auction). So the Queen has not auctioned jewels, as I understood it.
Anyway it is not excluded that the Queen will auction her jewels "om de stichting te spijzen" (to feed the foundation), referring to the dissovolved Foundation Fons Pereos from which all activa went to the Foundation Astrida. In June 2013 the Queen tranferred 2,5 million Euro of her private fortune to the Foundation Astrida, which has as aim: to give financial support to the Queen's blood relatives. Earlier also the Villa Astrida in Motril (Andalucía) was placed into a Spanish Foundation, also here for the benefit of the Queen's Spanish blood relatives.
Apparently the old Queen is now sort of distributing: her waterfall brooch to Mathilde, her money to her blood relatives, etc.