Based on the letters written during their engagement and marriage (cited extensively in the memoirs of their daughter, Marie-José) the young couple appear to have been deeply in love. The letters express a deep mutual affection based on a rare affinity of spirit. [4] They also make clear that Albert and Elisabeth continually supported and encouraged each other in their challenging roles as king and queen. The spouses shared an intense commitment to their country and family and a keen interest in human progress of all kinds. Together, they cultivated the friendship of prominent scientists, artists, mathematicians, musicians, and philosophers, turning their court at Laeken into a kind of cultural salon. [4] [5] Children [ edit ]

Koninklijke Crypte van Laken". Monarchie (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 11 October 2018 . Retrieved 10 October 2018.Trip to the United States [ edit ] King Albert at Columbia University after receiving an honorary degree, 1919 Read by/ Kenneth Cranham, Tim McMullan, and Harriet Walter, Producer/ Paul Dodgson for a Pier production The American adventure is over. The Corps set sail and cross the Atlantic, arriving in Bordeaux, France on 24 June 1918. On 15 July the unit of King Albert’s Heroes is officially disbanded. The men get a two-month leave and are then distributed among various Belgian army units. They do not lose touch with each though. They form the Fraternelle Amicale des ACM; the oldest Belgian association of World War One veterans. They publish their own Bulletin, the last issue of which appears in 1976, when there were still 30 ACM veterans left. In this first episode, narrated by the writer and producer Paul Dodgson, there are little known poems by Rudyard Kipling and Edith Wharton, and spirited rhetoric in praise of King Albert from the pen of former prime minister The Earl of Rosebury.

The little-known “Around The World In Three Years” odyssey of a group of Belgian soldiers during the First World War. They were given the name “King Albert’s Heroes”. Accession [ edit ] Newspaper compilation in December 1909 shows Albert at top left after inspection of a mine. His wife and children are at bottom right.DNA Tests Quash King Albert I Death Conspiracy Theory". New Historian. 24 July 2016. Archived from the original on 25 July 2016 . Retrieved 26 July 2016. Mary Elizabeth Thomas, "Anglo-Belgian Military Relations and the Congo Question, 1911–1913", Journal of Modern History, Vol. 25, No. 2 (June 1953), pp.157–165.

The Belgian Government sent the King to the Paris Peace Conference in April 1919, where he met with the leaders of France, Britain and the United States. He had four strategic goals: Raskin, Evrard (2005). Elisabeth Van België - Een ongewone koningin. Antwerp: Hautekiet. ISBN 905240822X.D'Ydewalle, Charles. "Albert King of the Belgians"(1935) Translated by Phyllis Megroz D'Ydewalle a journalist describes his book in the foreword.."This book is not a history, it is a sheaf of memories" The final chapter contains interviews with the people who discovered the king's body after his climbing accident Like his predecessors Leopold I and Leopold II, King Albert is interred in the Royal Crypt at the Church of Our Lady of Laeken in Brussels. [27] Marie-José, Queen, Consort of Umberto II, King of Italy. Albert et Elisabeth de Belgique, mes parents. Van Ypersele, Laurence (2006). Le roi Albert: Histoire d'un mythe. Charleroi: Broché. ISBN 978-2804021764. Albert was born in Brussels as the fifth child and second son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Albert succeeded his uncle Leopold II to the Belgian throne in 1909. He married Elisabeth of Bavaria, with whom he had three children.