Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium

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Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium (Marie-Esméralda Adelaide Lilian Anna Léopoldine, born September 30, 1956, Laeken, Belgium). She is the youngest child of Leopold III of Belgium and his second wife Lilian Baels (known as Princess van Retie or HRH Princess Lilian of Belgium). Her full siblings are Prince Alexander of Belgium and Princess Marie-Christine of Belgium. Her half-siblings include Belgium's current monarch King Albert II, who is also Marie-Esméralda's godfather, Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium (Grand Duchess of Luxembourg) and King Baudouin of Belgium, both of whom are now deceased.

[edit] Personal Life

Princess Marie-Esméralda is a journalist, writing under the name Esméralda de Réthy. She married Salvador Moncada, a Honduran pharmacologist, in 1998. They have a daughter, Alexandra Leopoldine (born in 1998), and a son, Leopoldo Daniel (born in 2001).