2023-07-21 10:49:35
On the other side, opposite the king, was the legislature with the president of the Senate, Sabine de Bethune, and next to all the presidents of the other assemblies. “On passed from the federal government to the Walloon Region, the Flemish Region, the Brussels Region. It was the new Belgium.”
As for the Church,it was not a problem, because I had an excellent collaboration with an admiral […] He was the chief of protocol at the palace“.
“At a certain point, the royal family went there, the constituted bodies, the European deputies, the mayor of Brussels. And then at a certain moment, there is someone who says in the Assembly […] And where do you put the cardinal? Because on previous swearings, the cardinal was always on the first floor. So I said the cardinal was going to the first floor. Because for me, it was normal in a country where there is a division between Church and State, to put the cults on the first floor“Was the cardinal offended?”I didn’t see him following, it was Monsignor Léonard.”
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