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July 3, 2013 during teleradiovystupleniya King Albert II officially announced its decision to hand over power to his eldest son Philip, because of ill health.
On Belgian coins of all nominal series type 4 depicts a profile portrait of King Philip of Belgium. On the left is the royal monogram (stylized letters crowned «Fp»), under it there is a designation of the issuing State - alphabetic character «BE». Below year of issue, situated between the sign minitsmeytstera Royal Mint of Belgium and the sign of the mint. Circumferentially along the collar 12 are shown the stars.
The eldest son of the King of Belgium Albert II and Queen Paola Phillip (full name -.. Philippe Leopold Louis Marie, NID Filip (s) Leopold Lodewijk Maria, Fr. Philippe Léopold Louis Marie) was born April 15, 1960 in the Castle Belvedere in Brussels.
Phillip became the first Belgian Prince, attending regular schools instead of receiving traditional home education. After school, he continued his education at the Royal Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1981. After a brief service in the armed forces Prince Philip returned to the study. First in English at Trinity College, Oxford University, and then in the US Stanford University, where he received a master's
degree in political science in 1985.
After the death in 1993 of the 5th Belgian King Baudouin and the ascent to the throne of Albert II, Prince Philip becomes Crown and gets the title of Duke of Brabant. He succeeded his father in the position of honorary chairman of the Belgian Council for Foreign Trade. In this position, he led the annual multi-day economic mission abroad.
Since 1993, Philip was appointed as chairman of the National (now Federal) Council for Sustainable Development. In June 1994, he became a member of the Belgian Senate.
In 1998, he founded the Prince Philippe Fund, whose goal is the convergence of different language communities in Belgium.
December 4, 1999 the future King Philip married Matilda d'Udekem d'Akoz that in the day of marriage received the title of Princess of Belgium. July 21, 2013 after the abdication of his father Philip Albert II, Matilda became the Queen of Belgium.
Euro coins, Belgium ( 2008-2013 )
The 2008 portrait did not comply with previous decisions by the ECOFIN in 2005 and 2008. Therefore, an amendment was made, which reverted to the portrait of Albert II found in the 2002 series. Mint marks, year and stars remain the same. Some collectors consider this as a third series but since unlike all series it was not published in the official journal of the European Union, it is actually an amendment and not a new series.
Euro coins, Belgium ( 1999–2007 )
On all Belgian coins first series depicts the profile of the Belgian King Albert II. On the outer ring between the 12 EU stars arranged monogram of King - crowned letter "A" and the Roman numeral "II of" (right of the portrait) and the year of coinage.
May 10, 1940, when Belgium was invaded by Germany, Prince Albert, accompanied by her sister and brother went first to France and later in Spain. At the request of the German government, in 1940, the Princes returned to Belgium. In June 1944, when there was an Allied invasion of Normandy, Leopold III with his family was deported to Germany and then to Austria, where in May 1945 they released the American army. Due to the political situation in Belgium King Leopold III could not with his family to return home immediately, so they are in October of the same year, settled in Switzerland, where he remained until July 1950.
King Leopold III, accompanied by Prince Baudouin and Prince Albert, returned to Belgium July 22, 1950. Soon after his return to his homeland due to political and national division of Belgium, Leopold III decided to abdicate in favor of Prince Baudouin, who became thus the King Baudouin I.
Albert graduated from the Naval Academy in Bruges. He has the rank of Lieutenant General and Vice Admiral Navy Belgium. In 1958 he became a member of the Senate of the Belgian Parliament, the chairman of the Red Cross of Belgium and President of the National Olympic Committee. Throughout the years 1958-1964 he was a member of the International Olympic Committee. Since 1962, the honorary chairman of the Belgian Council for Foreign Trade. In this capacity, he participated in numerous economic delegations around the world.
