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Special edition, on the occasion of the death of Queen Astrid. In 1935, the Queen of the Belgians was killed in a car accident in Küssnacht am Rigi, Switzerland at the age of 29. The king, because of the queen's designation, lost control of the chariot in which the couple took an incognito foray, under the name Renard, before returning home. After the car had run off the road and collided with a pear tree, the princess, who wanted to jump out of the car through the already open car door, was thrown out of the car and catapulted against the pear tree. The car shot into another tree and then ended up in the water. The queen died instantly from severe head injuries. Her unborn fourth child [source?] Also died together with the princess, while her other children had traveled home by train the night before. The queen was laid out with a bandaged head. The king was virtually unharmed. Many Belgians were mourning and mourning the little princes and princess who lost their mother at a young age. Due to this accident, Astrid was only queen for a year. Leopold mourned her loss and forbade his children to speak about her. He left her boudoir intact and kept her blood-stained dress. Küssnacht donated the land of the accident site to Leopold, whereupon Leopold had a chapel built in memory of her. Astrid herself is buried in a mausoleum in the royal crypt in Laken. She rests next to her husband and his second wife, Lilian, princess of Retie. Director of the magazine: Leon Degrelle!
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