Gabrielle Petit

3 April 2016

Queen Mathilde attended a remembrance ceremony for Gabrielle Petit who died 100 years ago. Petit was a Belgian Red Cross volunteer during the First World War. She also worked as a spy for the allied forces, and was executed by the Germans on the Schaerbeek race track.

Patricia Vlerick acted as lady-in-waiting.

The ceremony took place at the Place Saint-Jean in Brussels.