Archive: Will lounge around at functions for food

A troop of young Flemish nationalists will this week deliver a food parcel to the villa in Tervuren outside Brussels occupied by Prince Laurent, third child of the King and eighth in line to the throne or thereabouts, God forbid a nation sighs. The package will include Cha-Cha chocolate bars, chocolate mints, Jupiler beer and local cheese.

Last month, Laurent complained that he was having trouble making ends meet on the €295,000 a year he is given by the Belgian state. Laurent is married and has three children, including a set of twins. Owners, sorry parents with twins of their own will probably sympathise. That's not even €6,000 a week.