H.R.H. Prince Laurent


H.R.H. Prince Laurent H.R.H. Prince Laurent
Added by Bart Perdieus
General Description : Medal issued by the Royal Belgian Mint
mintage 10000
Front Description : State shield
Back Description : Prince Laurent of Belgium (Laurent Benoît Baudouin Marie; born on 19 October 1963) in Château de Belvédère, near Laeken, Belgium, to King Albert II and Queen Paola of the Belgians (the then Prince and Princess of Liège). His godparents are Don Bettino Ricasoli and Duchess Sophie von Arenberg.

He was educated at the Royal Cadet High School and at the Royal Military Academy. He was promoted to the rank of Ship-of-the-Line Captain on 26 June 2004.

Prince Laurent is president of the Royal Institute for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources and the Promotion of Clean Technologies and president of the Prince Laurent Foundation for the Welfare of Domestic and Wild Animals. As of 2008, Prince Laurent is an ambassador for Future Harvest, a Washington, D.C., based agricultural research association. His involvement with animal welfare and the environment, together with a relative lack of interest in protocol, has caused him to be dubbed by elements of the popular Belgian press as 'écolo-gaffeur' (the ecolo-blunderer).

At this time he is 11th in the line of succession to the throne of Belgium.
Diameter 36.00 mm
Weight 20.00 g
Material Bronze
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