April 15, 1960
Belgians are celebrating today the birth of a son, to Princess Paola, the wife of Prince Albert of the Belgians. The new prince is second in line to the throne, after his father, who is King Baudouin's younger brother.
The infant prince will be named Philippe Leopold Louis Marie. Philippe was the name of King Albert of the Belgian's father, the Count of Flanders, and Leopold is the name of the baby's grandfather, King Leopold III, who abdicated in 1951.
The Italian-born Princess Paola gave birth to her first child at Schloss Belvedere. She married Prince Albert in Brussels on July 2, 1959.
Prince Philippe weighed 7 pounds and birth and "had blue eyes and blond hair," according to the New York Times.
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