[Cronos]

The King and Queen made pilgrimages to Assisi and Lourdes, praying for a child, but Fabiola miscarried again in 1963. In 1966, and again in 1968, a baby died in her womb. After that they became resigned to having no children, but were sustained by their faith. Having no children brought them sympathy in their country, where the Belgian people considered them as symbols of parenthood to the nation. In 1979 King Baudouin told some Belgian youngsters: “You know that we are childless. For many years we struggled to fathom the meaning of this sorrow. But gradually we came to understand that, having no children ourselves, we have more room in our hearts to love all, truly all, children.”

When the Belgian government wanted to pass a law liberalising abortion in Belgium in 1990, the King felt so strongly against this that he asked the government to declare him temporarily unfit to reign so that he did not have to give the bill the Royal Assent. This was agreed, and afterwards he resumed the throne

[DaxtonBrown]

“In Belgium, the young King Baudouin also had a complicated family background. His grandfather, King Albert, had died in a climbing accident when he was three, and his mother, Queen Astrid, was killed in a car accident when he was four. “

Can someone translate this into Engrish?

[Albion Wilde]

When the Belgian government wanted to pass a law liberalising abortion in Belgium in 1990, the King felt so strongly against this that he asked the government to declare him temporarily unfit to reign so that he did not have to give the bill the Royal Assent. This was agreed, and afterwards he resumed the throne

How I wish Queen Elizabeth II had done this a couple of years ago when Cameron rammed through his gay marriage legalization in UK.