Lilian, Princess of Réthy [SEP] country of citizenship
Lilian, Princess of Réthy
Princess Lilian of Belgium (née Mary Lilian Baels, – ) better known as Lilian, Princess of Réthy, was the second wife of King Leopold III of Belgium.
Background and education.
Mary Lilian Baels was born in London, England, where her parents had fled to during World War I. She was one of the nine children of Henri Baels from Ostend and his wife, Anne Marie de Visscher, from Dentergem. Lilian was initially educated in English, but, upon her parents
); she subsequently married Jean-Paul Gourges in Los Angeles, California, on 28 September 1989.
- HRH Princess Marie-Esméralda, Lady Moncada (born 30 September 1956). She is the youngest daughter of Leopold III and Lilian, Princess of Réthy, half-sister of both Kings Baudouin and Albert II and half-aunt of King Philippe. Princess Marie-Esméralda is a journalist, writing under the name "Esméralda de Réthy". She married Sir Salvador Moncada, a Honduran-British pharmacologist,