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From 20 October 2019 till 27 October 2019 it was a beautiful but busy week for the royals and also for the blogs about royalty.  There was a splendid enthronement in Japan and the 18th. B-Day ceremony of Princess Elisabeth of Belgium. I really loved both important royal events but I only managed to read one book over the last few weeks.  More about the royal events on these links: Link 1 Link 2 I chose the book: 'Albert & Elisabeth: Mes Parents', written in French by princess Marie José of Belgium, the last Queen of Italy. Queen Marie José lived from 1906 till 2001 and she was the youngest child of King Albert I of Belgium and Queen Elisabeth. Together with her brothers Prince Charles of Belgium and Leopold (Later King Leopold III) she experienced the war and the turbulent years between the two wars in a small, protected world. It were heavy times on the field of military, politics, social, economical internationally and nationally. In

The last weeks were busy ones, so I only could read two fantastic royal books. The first one was Victoria the Queen, written by Julia Baird , which is of course a splendid biography about Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. I liked reading this interesting book about Queen Victoria, which was written  very well  and it gives an idea about her life from birth till death.  It also describes the era of Queen Victoria , her ministers, writers, inventors and many other important people.  This is a biography as it should be.  The other royal biography was a book written in Dutch about an other interesting queen: Queen Elisabeth of Belgium written by Ralf De Jonge. Elisabeth became the third queen of Belgium from 1909 till 1934. In the book, which also was written very well the author tells about Elisabeth's youth in Bavaria, about her bond with her aunt Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sisi) , her marriage to Crown Prince Albert of Belgium, her  duties as a