Professor Hamilton's Diary: Aug. 30, 1935

He and Margaret clean his room; Belgium's Queen Astrid dies in auto accident

Although Mary Elizabeth was on the mend, the Hamiltons kept her inside and upstairs in her room today. He read some and then he and Margaret cleaned his room. He stayed busy with his books part of the day.

The world reacted with shock and grief to the news that Belgium’s young Queen Astrid had been killed in an automboile accident in Switzerland. Paid subscribers can read on about the queen and her ill-fated king.

This 1930 portrait of then-Princess Astrid by Bernhard Osterman, simply dressed in black and wearing a long strand of pearls, was accessed via Wikimedia Commons.