Posted by Isabelle D on March 10, 2016, 11:40 pm, in reply to "Belgian jewels..."
I have good hopes the family foundation will still come... So far Philippe has made changes in the communications department and in the future titles in the family, so I think he will continue in this sensible way. Well let's hope so anyways :-)
About buying back former family jewels: if Albert & Philippe had done this the past 10 years they would have signed the end of the monarchy I think. The biggest political forces are still separatist ones who grab any occasion to criticize the royal family. Even this month Mathilde was reprimanded because having a meeting with a minister on her UN advocacy work was called "an audience", and she's supposedly not to play any official role (haha) in Belgium, she can't have aundiences... Also in each phrase politicians use nowadyas the word "tax payer" is used.
I really hope these wonderful jewels could find their way back to Laeken, but how the royal family would have to go about that, I just don't know.