For International Women's Day which is celebrated on 8 March, Queen Mathilde met a group of prominent ladies from diverse industries in Bruges to have breakfast together.
Mathilde told the little boy who welcomed her that she had a cold.
Melissa Maas acted as lady-in-waiting.
The invited ladies were:
- author Ann De Craemer
- Cathy Defoor, vice president of Picanol
- Marie-Christine Deleu, regional judge
- Warda El-Kaddouri, scientific researcher & UN Youth representative
- Actress Lize Feryn
- Hannelore Hochepied, Ostend's chief police officer
- Katrien Van Eeckhoutte, director of the Bruges Concert Building
- Ann Lambrechts, Bekaert's Global Sales & Product Manager
- Vivi Lombaerts, coordinator of WWI remembrance platform GoneWest
- Boxing champion Delfine Persoon
- Brigitte Smessaert of agro-food association Vlaams Huis van de Voeding
- Kristine Wyffels of donation fund Streekfonds West-Vlaanderen
Mathilde stayed for 90 minutes.
At noon Queen Mathilde was back at home in Laeken to host a lunch meeting with another set of leading ladies from various industries. King Philippe joined them.
Here the invited ladies were:
- Sophie Biernaux, vice president of Glaxo SmithKline Biologicals
- Ingrid De Jonghe, founder of Youth Psychotherapy Consult TEJO
- Marion Debruyne, decan of the Vlerick Business School
- Sophie Heine, researcher for the European affairs program, Egmont Institute
- Cathy Herbrand, lecturer & researcher in Sociology at De Montfort University
- Brigitte Maréchal, director of islamic studies center CISMOC
- Meinie Nicolai, chair of Médecins sans Frontières Belgium
- Marie-Geneviève Pinsart, head of the Philosophy Faculty of ULB
- Documentary maker Elien Spillebeen
- Claire Tillekaerts, director of Internatrional Business Agency FIT
- Laure Twyffels, Manager of Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging
- Clarinet player Annelien Van Wauwe
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