Much of the family issues have a root in the strained marriage of Albert and Paola between the late 1960s and early 1990s with all the drama that came along with it: extramarital affairs, a child with a long time mistress, emotionally neglected children etc. The family situation was rather dysfunctional and it has had an effect on each and everyone. Albert and Filip were not regarded as very capable candidates for the top job. Albert tried but was not very effective in dealing with the divisions in his country and did not prepare himself or his family for the royal duties a head. Combine that with a longtime reluctance to modernise the monarchy plus a politically, economically and culturally divided country with a growing autonomy for the federal 'states' and you have a great recipe for a monarchy in distress. Filip and Mathilde are now catching on but it might be a little too late. In a nutshell.
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