# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/queen-paola-of-belgium
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:50:46.874Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/queen-paola-of-belgium"
name: "Queen Paola of Belgium"
slug: "queen-paola-of-belgium"
description: "She held the title of Queen of the Belgians for two decades without being Belgian by birth — an Italian princess who became the quietest fixture of a small monarchy in perpetual identity crisis."
tagline: "Queen consort of the Belgians"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Queen_Paola_with_the_President_and_the_Prime_Minister_of_India%2C_and_the_King_Albert_II_(cropped).jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1937-09-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.81
  momentum:             3.766134815346003
  historical:           23.10574
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Politicians"
    slug: "politicians"
  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "20th Century"
    slug: "20th-century"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Paola_of_Belgium"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31129"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Queen%20Paola%20of%20Belgium"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalabriyal%C4%B1_Paola_(Bel%C3%A7ika_krali%C3%A7as%C4%B1)"
    title: "Kalabriyalı Paola (Belçika kraliçası)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%84%D0%B0_%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%96_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B0"
    title: "Паола Руфа дзі Калабрыа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_Ruffo_di_Calabria"
    title: "Paola Ruffo di Calabria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_Ruffo_di_Cal%C3%A0bria"
    title: "Paola Ruffo di Calàbria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_Belgick%C3%A1"
    title: "Paola Belgická"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_af_Belgien"
    title: "Paola af Belgien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_Ruffo_di_Calabria"
    title: "Paola Ruffo di Calabria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%AC%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B1_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%92%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85"
    title: "Πάολα του Βελγίου"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_de_Belgio"
    title: "Paola de Belgio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_de_B%C3%A9lgica"
    title: "Paola de Bélgica"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_(belglaste_kuninganna)"
    title: "Paola (belglaste kuninganna)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_Belgikakoa"
    title: "Paola Belgikakoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%87_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%84%DA%98%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "ملکه پائولا بلژیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_(Belgian_kuningatar)"
    title: "Paola (Belgian kuningatar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_Ruffo_di_Calabria"
    title: "Paola Ruffo di Calabria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%94%2C_%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9D"
    title: "פאולה, מלכת הבלגים"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_belga_kir%C3%A1lyn%C3%A9"
    title: "Paula belga királyné"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_dari_Belgia"
    title: "Paola dari Belgia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_Ruffo_di_Calabria"
    title: "Paola Ruffo di Calabria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%83%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2"
    title: "パオラ・ルッフォ・ディ・カラブリア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9E%E1%83%90%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90_%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A4%E1%83%9D_%E1%83%93%E1%83%98_%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%91%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%90"
    title: "პაოლა რუფო დი კალაბრია"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B2%A8%EA%B8%B0%EC%97%90_%EC%99%95%EB%8C%80%EB%B9%84_%ED%8C%8C%EC%98%AC%EB%9D%BC"
    title: "벨기에 왕대비 파올라"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_(%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "باولا (ملكة بلجيكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "الملكه باولا من بلجيكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Paola Ruffo di Calabria on 11 September 1937, she entered the world as Italian aristocracy, a princess by blood long before she became a queen by marriage. When she married Albert, the union tethered her to Belgium, a country where she would spend decades as a reserved, sometimes distant figure in the public eye. On 9 August 1993, Albert's ascension made her Queen of the Belgians, a role she occupied through years of constitutional turbulence and linguistic fracture. She relinquished the title on 21 July 2013 when Albert abdicated, closing a reign marked more by endurance than by fanfare.