The couple have four children:*Princess Elisabeth Thérèse Marie Hélène, Duchess of Brabant, born 25 October 2001*Prince Gabriel Baudouin Charles Marie, born 20 August 2003*Prince Emmanuel Léopold Guillaume François Marie, born 4 October 2005*Princess Eléonore Fabiola Victoria Anne Marie, born 16 April 2008Princess Elisabeth, the couple's eldest child, is the first in line to the throne and ahead of her younger brothers and sister, who are second, third, and fourth in line to succeed, owing to a change in Belgian succession laws in 1991, allowing for the eldest child to succeed, regardless of gender.
Mathilde je odrasla na družinskem posestvu na gradu Losange v Villers-la-Bonne-Eau, Bastogne.