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Lilian, Princess of Réthy, the second wife of King Leopold III of Belgium, was an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. She was born in Highbury, north London, one of six daughters and two sons of Hendrik Lodewijk Baels, from Ostend, Belgium and Delphina Alexandra Baels née Mauricx, a member of the Belgian nobility from Dentergem.
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Leopold married Lilian Baels on 11 September 1941, in a secret religious ceremony which was not valid under the law of Belgium. They originally intended to wait until the end of the war for the civil marriage, but as the new Princess of Réthy was soon expecting their first child, the ceremony took place on 6 December 1941.
Mary Lilian Baels nacque a Londra, in Regno Unito, dove i suoi genitori vivevano in quel periodo. Era una dei nove figli di Henri Louis Baels e di sua moglie, Anne Marie de Visscher. Lilian fu inizialmente educata in inglese ma, al ritorno dei genitori in Belgio, frequentò una scuola a Ostenda, dove imparò l' olandese .
Mary Lilian Baels, vollständiger Name Mary Lilian Henriette Lucie Joséphine Ghislaine (* 28.November 1916 in London, England; † 7. Juni 2002 in Brüssel), die spätere Prinzessin von Réthy, war die umstrittene zweite Ehefrau des belgischen Königs Leopold III.
Leopoldo acordó que Lilian Baels no sería proclamada reina de Bélgica, sino Princesa de Rhéty, y los hijos que tuvieran quedaron excluidos de la sucesión de la corona. Se arguyó en defensa del rey que dicho matrimonio sería postergado hasta la liberación de Bélgica, pero Lilian Baels ya estaba encinta y era preciso adelantar la boda.
Mary Lilian Baels (1916–2002), who became the second wife of King Leopold III of Belgium. Lydia Baels (1920–1990), who married Jean-Jacques Cartier, a son of jeweler Jacques-Théodule Cartier and the former Nelly Harjes.
