The radiant smile of Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz seems to reflect a new mood across the country of which, all being well, she should one day be queen. The ecstatic crowds which have greeted this 26-year-old speech therapist, fiancee of the heir to the throne, Prince Philippe, on her recent tours of Belgium are testimony not only to her manifest warmth and beauty. She is also the first future Belgian queen born within the country's borders....more

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