Elisabeth's Statue

October 2016

Artist Jan Fabre has created a marble statue of Crown Princess Elisabeth dressed in her everyday clothes and wearing a party hat, called "My Future Queen".

The statue is part of Fabre's Hermitage exhibition "Knight of Despair/Warrior of Beauty". In his series "My Queens", Fabre depicts the most important women in his life. "Soon we'll have a woman running our country. I wanted to give her a central place in the exhibition. I gave her a carnival's hat, a Belgian crown: the crown of Belgian vitality, of daftness."

Court didn't know about the statue. Elisabeth has been said to find her first statue "quite amusing".