![]() She also the honorary president of the Breast International Group, a non-profit organisation for academic breast cancer research groups from around the world. She serves as the World Health Organization's Special Representative for Immunization. Since 2009, Queen Mathilde has been the honorary president of Unicef Belgium. ![]() Queen Mathilde is concerned with a range of social issues including education, child poverty, intergenerational poverty, the position of women in society and literacy. Princess Elisabeth, the couple's eldest child, is the first in line to the throne and ahead of her younger brothers and sister, who are second, third, and fourth in line to succeed, owing to a change in Belgian succession laws in 1991, allowing for the eldest child to succeed, regardless of sex. Princess Eléonore, born 16 April 2008 at Erasmus Hospital in Brussels.Prince Emmanuel, born 4 October 2005 at Erasmus Hospital in Brussels.Prince Gabriel, born 20 August 2003 at Erasmus Hospital in Brussels.Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, born 25 October 2001 at Erasmus Hospital in Brussels.Queen Mathilde alongside Prince Emmanuel and Princess Eléonore in 2016 Therefore, she knows only a few words of Polish. Her mother, who has lived most of her life outside Poland, did not teach her Polish, thinking that it would not be necessary. Mathilde speaks French, Dutch, English and Italian. She also studied psychology at the Université catholique de Louvain and earned a master's degree in psychology in 2002 with honours (cum laude). She also worked part-time at a primary school. She worked as a speech therapist in her own practice in Brussels from 1995 to 1999. From 1991 until 1994, Mathilde attended the Institut Libre Marie Haps in Brussels, where she studied speech therapy and graduated magna cum laude. Mathilde attended primary school in Bastogne and then attended secondary school at the Institut de la Vierge Fidèle in Brussels where she studied modern languages. Upon the accession of her husband, Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant to the throne of Belgium she became the first queen consort of native Belgian nationality. Upon Mathilde's marriage to Prince Philippe of Belgium, the Duke of Brabant in 1999, King Albert II of Belgium elevated the d'Udekem d'Acoz family from the baronial to the comital rank, hereditary in the male lineage. Mathilde has three sisters: Marie-Alix, Elisabeth and Hélène, and one brother Charles-Henri. Her parents are Count and Countess Patrick d'Udekem d'Acoz. Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine d'Udekem d'Acoz was born on 20 January 1973 at Edith Cavell Hospital in Uccle, Belgium. ![]()
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