Princess Marie-Christine of Belgium
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Princess Marie-Christine of Belgium (Marie-Christine Daphné Astrid Elisabeth Léopoldine, born 6 February 1951 in Laeken, Belgium) is a member of the Belgian royal family and a half-sister of King Albert II of the Belgians. Her father was King Leopold III of the Belgians, and her mother was his morganatic second wife, the former Lilian Baels. Her godparents were King Baudouin I of Belgium and Marie-Christine de Braganca.
On May 9, 1962, she received her First Holy Communion and Confirmation, officiated by Bishop Fulton Sheen.[1]
Her first marriage, to Paul Drucker in 1981, lasted 40 days (though they weren't formally divorced till 1985); she subsequently married Jean-Paul Gourges in 1989.
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