List of honours of Belgium awarded to heads of state and royalty

This article serves as an index – as complete as possible – of all the honorific orders or similar decorations awarded by Belgium, classified by Monarchies chapter and Republics chapter, and, under each chapter, recipients' countries and the detailed list of recipients.

Awards

• For Leopold Recipients, see the list of grand cordons of the Order of Leopold

Monarchies

Europe

Belgian Royal Family

• King Philippe:
  • Grand Master and Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, military division
  • Grand Master of the Order of the African Star (dormant), Royal Order of the Lion (dormant), Order of the Crown & Order of Leopold II
• Queen Mathilde : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• King Albert II : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, military division^[1]
• Queen Paola : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Princess Astrid & Prince Lorenz : Grand Cordons of the Order of Leopold
• Prince Laurent : Grand Cordons of the Order of Leopold, military division
• Princess Claire : Grand Cordons of the Order of Leopold

Norwegian Royal Family

• King Harald V: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, military division °
• Queen Sonja: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, civil division °
• Princess Astrid: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown°

Swedish Royal Family

• King Carl XVI Gustaf: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1977)
• Queen Silvia: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1977)
• Crown Princess Victoria: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2001)

Danish Royal Family

• Queen Margrethe II: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Crown Prince Frederik: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Crown Princess Mary: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
• Prince Joachim: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
• Princess Marie: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold II
• Princess Benedikte: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown

Dutch Royal Family

• King Willem-Alexander:
  • Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2016)
• Queen Máxima:
  • Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2016)
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) (2006)
• Princess Beatrix: Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold - Civil division (2003)
• Prince Constantijn: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
• Princess Laurentien : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) (2016)
• Princess Irene: Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Princess Margriet: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
• Pieter van Vollenhoven: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown

Luxembourgish Grand-Ducal Family

• Grand Duke Henri: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1994)
• Grand Duchess Maria Teresa: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1994)
• Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
• Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
• Prince Guillaume: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (1994)

Spanish Royal Family

• King Felipe VI: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• King Juan Carlos: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Queen Sofía: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Infanta Cristina: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1994)

Liechtenstein

• Prince Nikolaus: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (as former ambassador of Liechtenstein in Belgium)^{[citation needed]}
• Alexander Frick: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold^[2]
• Leopold Freiherr von Imhof: Knight's Cross of the Order of Leopold^[3]

British Royal Family

• Queen Elizabeth II : - 1963 – - Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold^{[citation needed]}

Asia

Thai Royal Family

• Queen Sirikit: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1960)

Japanese Imperial Family

• Emperor Emperus Akihito: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Empress Emerita Michiko: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Emperor Naruhito: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• Empress Masako: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold^{[citation needed]}

Former

Bulgarian Royal Family

• King Simeon II: Knight Grand Cross of Order of the Crown (Belgium)^{[citation needed]}

Iranian Imperial Family

• Empress Farah: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold^{[citation needed]}

Republics

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2013)

Bulgaria

• President Georgi Parvanov : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2003)
• Zorka Petrova Parvanova : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2003)\

China

• President Xi Jinping : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2014)^{[citation needed]}

Estonia

• President Toomas Hendrik Ilves : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2008)
• Evelin Ilves : Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) (2008)

France

• Nicolas Sarkozy : Commander of the Order of Leopold (ministre de l’Économie, des Finances et de l’Industrie, 2004)^{[citation needed]}

Finland

• President Tarja Halonen : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2004)
• Pentti Arajärvi : Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (2004)

Hungary

• President László Sólyom: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2008)^{[citation needed]}

Latvia

• President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2007)^[4]

Lithuania

• President Valdas Adamkus : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2006)^[5]
• Alma Adamkienė : Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (2006)^[5]

Poland

• President Lech Wałęsa : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
• President Aleksander Kwaśniewski : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1999)
• Jolanta Kwaśniewska : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1999)

Portugal

• President Jorge Sampaio : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2005)
• Maria José Rodrigues Ritta : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2005)

Turkey

• President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2015) ^[6]

See also

• Mirror page : List of honours of the Belgian Royal Family by country

References

External links

• Norway: See also the following decorations pages: Harald, Sonja, Haakon, Mette-Marit, Mârtha Louise, Astrid and Ragnhild