# List of honours of Belgium awarded to heads of state and royalty

This article serves as an index – as complete as possible – of all the honorific orders or similar decorations awarded by Belgium, classified by Monarchies chapter and Republics chapter, and, under each chapter, recipients' countries and the detailed list of recipients.

## Awards

* For Leopold Recipients, see the list of grand cordons of the Order of Leopold

### Monarchies
#### Europe
##### Belgian Royal Family

* King Philippe:
** Grand Master and Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, military division
** Grand Master of the Order of the African Star (dormant), Royal Order of the Lion (dormant), Order of the Crown & Order of Leopold II
* Queen Mathilde : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* King Albert II : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, military division
* Queen Paola : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* Princess Astrid & Prince Lorenz : Grand Cordons of the Order of Leopold
* Prince Laurent : Grand Cordons of the Order of Leopold, military division
* Princess Claire : Grand Cordons of the Order of Leopold

##### Norwegian Royal Family

* King Harald V: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, military division °
* Queen Sonja: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, civil division °
* Princess Astrid: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown°

##### Swedish Royal Family

* King Carl XVI Gustaf: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1977)
* Queen Silvia: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1977)
* Crown Princess Victoria: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2001)

##### Danish Royal Family

* Queen Margrethe II: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* Crown Prince Frederik: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* Crown Princess Mary: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
* Prince Joachim: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
* Princess Marie: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold II
* Princess Benedikte: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown

##### Dutch Royal Family

* King Willem-Alexander:
** Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2016)
* Queen Máxima:
** Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2016)
** Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) (2006)
* Princess Beatrix: Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold - Civil division (2003)
* Prince Constantijn: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
* Princess Laurentien : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) (2016)
* Princess Irene: Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* Princess Margriet: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
* Pieter van Vollenhoven: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown

##### Luxembourgish Grand-Ducal Family

* Grand Duke Henri: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1994)
* Grand Duchess Maria Teresa: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1994)
* Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
* Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
* Prince Guillaume: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (1994)

##### Spanish Royal Family

* King Felipe VI: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* King Juan Carlos: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* Queen Sofía: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* Infanta Cristina: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1994)

##### Liechtenstein

* Prince Nikolaus: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (as former ambassador of Liechtenstein in Belgium)
* Alexander Frick: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* Leopold Freiherr von Imhof: Knight's Cross of the Order of Leopold

##### British Royal Family

* Queen Elizabeth II : - 1963 – - Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold

#### Asia
##### Thai Royal Family

* Queen Sirikit: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1960)

##### Japanese Imperial Family

* Emperor Emperus Akihito: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* Empress Emerita Michiko: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* Emperor Naruhito: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* Empress Masako: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold

#### Former
##### Bulgarian Royal Family

* King Simeon II: Knight Grand Cross of Order of the Crown (Belgium)

##### Iranian Imperial Family

* Empress Farah: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold

### Republics
#### Bulgaria

* President Georgi Parvanov : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2003)
* Zorka Petrova Parvanova : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2003)\

#### China

* President Xi Jinping : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2014)

#### Estonia

* President Toomas Hendrik Ilves : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2008)
* Evelin Ilves : Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) (2008)

#### France

* Nicolas Sarkozy : Commander of the Order of Leopold (ministre de l’Économie, des Finances et de l’Industrie, 2004)

#### Finland

* President Tarja Halonen : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2004)
* Pentti Arajärvi : Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (2004)

#### Hungary

* President László Sólyom: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2008)

#### Latvia

* President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2007)

#### Lithuania

* President Valdas Adamkus : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2006)
* Alma Adamkienė : Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (2006)

#### Poland

* President Lech Wałęsa : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
* President Aleksander Kwaśniewski : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1999)
* Jolanta Kwaśniewska : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1999)

#### Portugal

* President Jorge Sampaio : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2005)
* Maria José Rodrigues Ritta : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2005)

#### Turkey

* President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2015)