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, mother = Louise d'Orléans , burial_place = Church of Our Lady of Laeken Louis-Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium (Louis Philippe Léopold Victor Ernest; 24 July 1833 – 16 May 1834), was the eldest child and heir-apparent of King Leopold I of the Belgians and his second wife, Princess Louise d'Orléans.

Life

Louis-Philippe became crown prince at birth in

. The baby was baptised at the

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Engelbert Sterckx Engelbert Sterckx (2 November 1792 – 4 December 1867), was the Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium from 1832 to 1867. Life Engelbert (Engelbertus) Sterckx was born 2 November 1792 in Ophem, Brabant. His parents were farmers. He began his studies ...

, the

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. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, his father and his cousin,

Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previ ...

. He was nicknamed "Babochon".

Death

Louis-Philippe died in Laeken before his first birthday of an inflammation of the

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s. He was buried in the royal crypt of the Church of Our Lady of Laeken. Unlike subsequent heirs apparent to the Belgian throne, Louis-Philippe was not

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; this title was not created for the heir-apparent to the throne until 1840. He was followed as crown prince upon the birth of his younger brother, Leopold, who would later succeed their father as Leopold II, King of the Belgians.

Ancestry

References

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