Link to RTL video Archived Message
Posted by Arthur on January 19, 2016, 5:08 pm, in reply to "Re: Queen Fabiola's Spanish tiara should be a fake tiara"
Here is the link to the RTL evening news of January 18th. The reportage (in French) about Queen Fabiola's Spanish tiara is between 31:54' and 34:07' http://www.rtl.be/info/video/564894.aspx Brief summary of the reportage (with my own comments in italic): First, the introduction by the journalist of RTL: - between 5 and 9 persons are still working on Queen Fabiola's service [I think that she means that these persons are still attached to the late Queen's Household] in order to solve the succession issues - according to the Spanish press [no title or further reference is mentioned], the Spanish tiara "could be" a fake tiara - so far, no one in the late Queen's family has inherited this tiara. Then, the reportage itself: - "True or fake stones? Hard to know" [interesting that they mention "stones", and not necessarily the whole tiara]. The Royal Family's jeweller declined to answer RTL's questions - Patrick Weber, royal chronicler: it would be strange, and quite unappropriate, that Franco, a then acting Head of State, would knowingly present the Queen of the Belgians with a fake tiara - Who will inherit this tiara? Queen Mathilde or Princess Astrid? "It is whispered" that the two sisters-in-law would covet the jewels of their late aunt, to whom they were both very close - Patrick Weber: like in any succession, Queen Fabiola was in position to decide to whom the jewel would eventually go after her death. She was close both to Mathilde and Astrid. Princess Astrid was her neighbour [at Stuyvenberg Castle, near Laeken], so it could be perfectly imaginable that Astrid eventually gets the Spanish tiara - Queen Fabiola's succession is somehow tricky, as she had a lot of nephews and nieces. Several foundations might be involved too. The succession will be settled "within a few weeks", "according to the Royal Palace". So that is the content of this reportage. Nothing very solid and substantial, actually, it remains mainly speculation. The main information (though I don't know with certainty how reliable it is) is that the Spanish tiara is still in the late Queen's bequest, waiting to be attributed to an heir.
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