Immo Royale in Rome

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In November 2022 there was a lot to do about an article in the French newspaper Le Parisien. It stated that there was a robbery in the appartment of Queen Paola of Belgium in Paris. Not much later, the newspaper retracted that report and reported that there was "ambiguity about the identity of the owner". 

picture taken in November 2022 in Rome

After which the spokesman for the royal palace also responded and reported that Queen Paola has no apartment at all in the district where the theft took place. 

"The original article of 'Le Parisien' that linked the theft to an apartment of the Queen is therefore incorrect," the palace concluded.

However Queen Paola of Belgium and King Albert II of  Belgium have other properties than their Belvédère Castle in Laeken, Brussels. 

They would have residences in Châteauneuf-Grasse (France) and in Villers-sur-Lesse (Belgium). But also an apartment in Oostende (Belgium) and an apartment in Rome.  

picture taken in November 2022 in Rome

As Rome is one of our favourite Royal Destinations, we were very keen to find the apartment of Queen Paola of Belgium and to know a bit more about the history.

Albert and Paola usually spend the winter in her parental home, Casa Ruffo at 1 via Jacopo Peri in Rome. The apartment in the ochre-coloured patrician house where the monarch grew up is in the shadow of Villa Borghese, one of the most famous parks in the Italian capital.  

This was news because Queen Paola would have tried (with success) to save the tree in front of her paternal home. 

Villa Borghese in Rome picture taken in 2022

Since the accession to the throne, the king and queen take up residence there in the autumn, and leave again before the heat becomes too much in the spring. 

 Paola in 1967 - Source picture: Wikipedia

The House of Ruffo di Calabria is one of the longest-standing noble families in Italy. It was already one of the seven most important houses of the Kingdom of Naples.

Paola Margherita Giuseppina Maria Consiglia Ruffo di Calabria was born in September 1937. She spent most of her childhood in Rome. 

In 1958, Paola met the 25-year-old Prince Albert, the brother of the Belgian King Baudouin, at the coronation ceremony of Pope John XXIII. A year later, the couple got married in Brussels.


Coat of Arms of the
family Ruffo di Calabria

Source picture: Wikipedia


Location: Rome, Italië

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