From its true name Doña Fabiola, Fernanda, María of mow Victorias, Antonia, Adelaida de Mora there Aragón , the queen Fabiola was born with Madrid, on June 11th 1928. Exit of a family of seven children of the Spanish Nobility, it is the third girl of Gift Gonzalo Mora Fernandez, Riera del Olmo, Count de Mora, Marquis de Casa Riera and of Doña Blanca de Aragón there Carrillo de Albornoz, Barroeta-Aldamar there Elio.

After its training of nurse, she works in an hospital service of Madrid. She also publishes a series of news for children in an album entitled " twelve marvellous tales ". The December 15th 1960, it marries with Brussels the king Baudouin I {{er}} of Belgium, wire of the king Léopold III and the queen Astrid. The royal couple will not have a child and lives simply with the Château of Laeken. Both are famous for their great catholic faith and are followers of the charismatic Renouveau.

From 1960 to 1993, the Fabiola queen is the First Lady of Belgium. She is at the sides of her husband to attend the official ceremonies, to go on a journey of State and to receive the foreign personalities of passage to Brussels. She creates the social Secretariat of the Queen who receives each year of the distress calls of thousands of Belgians and tries to find a solution in collaboration with the ministries and the public Centres of social action (CPAS). She grants her High patronage to UNICEF - Belgium. Very attentive with the problems encountered by the handicapped people, it creates in 1967 the national Fondation Reine Fabiola for the Mental health and multiplies the visits in the specialized institutions. With king Baudouin, it represents Belgium in 1990 with New York in the first World summit of the United Nations on Childhood.

In the cultural field, the Fabiola queen grants her High patronage to the world Day Poetry-Childhood and the Living room of the Watercolours of Belgium. She assumes since 1965 the presidency of honor of the international musical Concours Queen-Elisabeth-of-Belgium. In 1976, the Fabiola queen is the second family member royal with being named member of honor of the royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium.

It gave its first name at many social institutions. Two more known are the Villages Fabiola Queen for handicapped people and the University hospital of the Children Fabiola Queen (inaugurated in 1986).

The July 31st 1993, king Baudouin dies in Spain. The Fabiola queen makes impression at the time of this funeral by her dignity and her white dress, in a celebration placed under the sign of the hope. As from 1993, it decreases the number of its public appearances in order not to make to shade with her sister-in-law the queen Paola, new First Lady. It leaves in 1998 the castle of Laeken for most modest Château of Stuyvenberg. Between 1992 and 2000, the Fabiola queen travels much abroad in order to draw the attention to the condition of the rural women of the Tiers-monde. She represents Belgium in 1995 with Beijing in the World summit of the United Nations on the Women. She grants her High patronage to the operation Télévie against the Leucémie of 1993 to 2004.

Since the death of her husband, it is president of honor of the Fondation King Baudouin.

At the time of a reception in the greenhouses of Laeken in September 2006, the Fabiola queen entrusted to young people whom she wrote of the anecdotes on king Baudouin and whom she hoped to see them published after her death.

The opinions are divided about the Fabiola queen. Some praise its direction of the contact, its intelligence and its attention for weakest of our company, which are quite real. Its detractors reproach him for using his title to promote the Catholic religion and for having authorized in 1995 the publication of the diary of king Baudouin, very impregnated of the Christian values.

See too

Internal bond

• royal Marriage (film 1960)

External bond

• Official site of Belgian Monarchy: Queen Fabiola