All About Royal Families

Belgium is known for its beer and it chocolate. Since I don't like beer that much, I unfortunately :-) really enjoy chocolate as the Belgian royal family does. On the Place du Grand Sablon in Brussels there is a very famous boulangerie called Wittamer and this shop received a royal warrant of appointment to the Belgian Court. Wittamer Some Royal History Already in 1910 Henri Wittamer opened his boulangerie with his wife Marie on the Place du Grand Sablon. The shop passed on to his son Henri II and his wife Yvonne. Their son called Henri III (to make it easy) and his sister Myriam took over Wittamer in the 1960's. Henri III had his training as maître chocolatier in Switzerland. In these years the process of manufacturing was modernised with new technological developments. In the 1980's new ideas also were introduced. In the 1980's Wittamer opened its first shop in Osaka in Japan. Nowadays the company is ruinning with the fourth generation

In Sint-Niklaas, Belgium there is a small old but beautiful castle called the 'Castro Hof'. For years, I wondered where the name Castrohof came from. This question finally was solved in an exhibition  (January 2019) organised by the 'Koninklijke Oudheidkundige Kring Land van Waas'. So, in this blogpost I wanted to dig out more about the noble house de Castro y Toledo. Castro Hof, Sint-Niklaas Belgium own picture taken in 2016 Origin of the noble house Sources mentioned that the family name came from San Cebrián de las Amayelas. This was the old name for the town which has nowadays the name: Cebrián de Campos. It is a place in the region Castilla y Léon in the north west of Spain. Coat of Arms de Castro own picture taken in 2019 @the exhibition in the Library of Sint-Niklaas Some royal history During the rule of  King Philippe II of Spain, the Habsburg Netherlands were ruled by governors as Fernando Alvarez de Toledo (known as the Duke of