Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium

Princess Marie-Esméralda Spouse Sir Salvador Moncada Issue Alexandra Moncada Leopoldo Moncada Full name French: Marie-Esméralda Adelaide Lilian Anna Léopoldine House House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Father Leopold III of Belgium Mother Lilian Baels Born 30 October 1956 (1956-10-30) Brussels, Belgium

Belgian Royal Family HM The King HM The Queen HRH The Duke of Brabant HRH The Duchess of Brabant HRH Princess Elisabeth HRH Prince Gabriel HRH Prince Emmanuel HRH Princess Eléonore HI&RH The Archduchess of Austria-Este HI&RH The Archduke of Austria-Este HI&RH Prince Amedeo HI&RH Princess Maria Laura HI&RH Prince Joachim HI&RH Princess Luisa Maria HI&RH Princess Laetitia Maria HRH Prince Laurent HRH Princess Claire HRH Princess Louise HRH Prince Nicolas HRH Prince Aymeric HM Queen Fabiola Extended royal family HRH Princess Léa HRH Princess Marie-Christine HRH Princess Marie-Esméralda

Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium (Marie-Esméralda Adelaide Lilian Anna Léopoldine, born 30 September 1956, Laeken, Belgium) is a member of the Belgian Royal Family.

Family

She is the youngest child of the late Leopold III of Belgium and his second wife Lilian Baels (known as Princess of Réthy or HRH Princess Lilian of Belgium). Her full siblings are the late Prince Alexander of Belgium and Princess Marie-Christine of Belgium. Her half-siblings include the late King Baudouin of Belgium, Belgium's current monarch King Albert II, who is also Marie-Esméralda's godfather, and the late Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium (Grand Duchess of Luxembourg).

Personal life

Princess Marie-Esméralda is a journalist, writing under the name Esméralda de Réthy. She married Sir Salvador Moncada, a Honduran-British pharmacologist, in London on 4 April 1998. They have a daughter, Alexandra Leopoldine (born in London on 4 August 1998), and a son, Leopoldo Daniel (born in London on 21 May 2001).

Ancestry

16. Leopold I of Belgium

8. Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders

17. Princess Louise-Marie of Orléans

4. Albert I of Belgium

18. Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern

9. Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

19. Princess Josephine of Baden

2. Leopold III of Belgium

20. Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria

10. Duke Karl-Theodor in Bavaria

21. Princess Ludovika of Bavaria

5. Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria

22. Miguel of Portugal

11. Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal

23. Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg

1. Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium

24. Petrus Paulus Baels

12. Julius Ludovicus Baels

25. Barbara Francisca de Vos

6. Henri Baels

26. Jean-Baptiste Mauricx

13. Delphina Alexandrina Mauricx

27. Joanna Thuyn

3. Mary Lilian Baels

28. Charles Joseph de Visscher

14. Adolphe Auguste De Visscher

29. Maria Geers

7. Anne Marie De Visscher

30. Jozef August Opsomer

15. Alice Victoria Céline Opsomer

31. Nathalia de Meulenaere

External links

• Royal House of Belgium

Styles of Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium Reference style Her Royal Highness Spoken style Madame