Prince Baudouin of Belgium [SEP] father
Prince Baudouin of Belgium
Prince Baudouin of Belgium (3 June 1869 – 23 January 1891), born in Brussels, was the first child and eldest son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, and his wife, Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
Baudouin was the nephew of Leopold II of Belgium. Upon the death of Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Leopold II's eldest (and only) son, six months before Baudouin's birth, the king was left with only one person in the line of succession
and Prince(ss) of Belgium. Marie-Christine was born in Laeken, Belgium. Her godparents were her half-brother King Baudouin and Infanta María Cristina of Spain. Marie-Christine was named after her godmother, her father's popular first wife, her paternal grandmother, and her father.
Her full siblings are the late Prince Alexandre of Belgium and Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium. Her half-siblings include the Belgian kings Baudouin and Albert II, and Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg. During Princess Marie