Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant, DHS (née: Ec. Mathilde Marie Christiane Ghislaine d'Udekem d'Acoz), is the wife of the heir apparent to the Belgian throne, Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant. Of Belgian and noble Polish ancestry; she is expected to be the first Belgian-born Queen consort of Belgium.
She was born Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz in Uccle on 20 January 1973. Though her grandfather and her uncle were barons, she and her father were mem...
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Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant, DHS (née: Ec. Mathilde Marie Christiane Ghislaine d'Udekem d'Acoz), is the wife of the heir apparent to the Belgian throne, Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant. Of Belgian and noble Polish ancestry; she is expected to be the first Belgian-born Queen consort of Belgium.
She was born Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz in Uccle on 20 January 1973. Though her grandfather and her uncle were barons, she and her father were members of the untitled nobility. Princess Mathilde is currently the only crown princess consort of a reigning european house bearing noble ancestry along with Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein (because Camilla Parker Bowles only belongs to the gentry). She is a cousin of the current President of the Republic of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski.
Mathilde's father was Count (formerly Jonkheer) Patrick d'Udekem d'Acoz (Uccle, 28 April 1936 – Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, 25 September 2008), son of Baron Charles d'Udekem d'Acoz (Ghent, 8 March...
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