Astrid Queen of Belgium
- Category : 1905-births
- Type : GE
- Profile : 1/3 - Investigating / Martyr
- Definition : Split - Small (2,15,34,46)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Contagion 4
Biography
Swedish-Belgian royalty, she married King Leopold III of Belgium on November 1926. She became queen of the Belgians after the accession of her husband on 17 February 1934 until her death.
Astrid's only daughter, Joséphine-Charlotte, later became Grand Duchess consort of Luxembourg, while both of her sons reigned as King of the Belgians. Astrid was also a sister of Crown Princess Märtha of Norway (wife of King Olav V) and a maternal aunt of King Harald V of Norway.
While motoring with her husband in Switzerland she showed him a map, he drove into a tree and she was killed, on 29 August 1935 at 9:15 AM in Kusnacht.