On Wednesday, Mathilde of Belgium was supposed to go to the Brussels public library. But due to an increase security risks of an attack in Brussels it was at the Royal Palace that the Belgian Queen finally made reading to children.

Last year, Her Majesty Queen Mathilde had launched the Aloud Reading Week by visiting a nursing home in Lokeren in East Flanders, where she reads to residents of that facility. For the 2015 vintage of this annual event organized by the association Ledereen Leest ("Everyone reads"), which highlights the many volunteers who all year read stories in schools, libraries and families home, the events changed audience. She had planned to go to the public library of Laeken in Brussels as part of the event "Brussels Reads Aloud" ("Brussels reads aloud"), which consists of reading times in several languages ​​offered by Belgian- Dutch libraries.
But due to the Brussels region being placed on maximum level alert the event had to be cancel. The schedule of the King and Queen had been adapted accordingly for security reasons, it was decided that reading high multilingual voice to which Mathilde was to participate would be relocated. And so it is in the Royal Palace few young children were able to hear the Queen, herself a mother of 4 two girls and two boys aged 7-14 years -the Crown Princess Elizabeth and Princess Eleanor and princes Gabriel and Emmanuel.
After the reading story was followed by a roundtable discussion on the importance of multilingualism and diversity in the education of children. That same day, Matilda, who was wearing a blue and black tunic over pants that color, also took part in another round table. Always the Royal Palace of Brussels, this time in the presence of her husband King Philip, it was about the burn out and the influence of social context on this issue.

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