Expected to attend the funeral are Josephine-Charlotte's brother, King Albert of Belgium; her husband, the former monarch and their five children, Grand Duke Henri, princes Jean and Guillaume and princesses Marie-Astrid and Margaretha. After a funeral mass, the grand ducal family is to accompany Josephine-Charlotte's coffin into the crypt that contains the tombs of Luxembourg bishops and royalty. The coffin will be placed in a space below the crypt's stone floor. On Friday, the national parliament stood in silence for one minute in memory of the grand duchess, who died 10 days after Luxembourg assumed the six-month presidency of the European Union. The government scaled back some EU-related events during the period of official mourning. Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte Ingeborg Elisabeth Marie Jose Marguerite Astrid was born Oct. 11, 1927, at the Belgian royal palace in Brussels. The daughter of Belgian King Leopold III and Swedish-born Queen Astrid, she spent her childhood in private schools in Belgium. On June 7, 1944 - one day after the allied D-Day landings in Normandy - the Belgian royal family was deported to Germany. In May, 1945, they moved to Geneva, Switzerland, because King Leopold could not return home due to an intense controversy in Belgium over his wartime conduct that brought the country to the brink of civil war. In Geneva, Josephine Charlotte studied child psychology. On April 9, 1953, she married Prince Jean of Luxembourg, then heir to the grand ducal throne of the tiny country surrounded by France, Germany and Belgium. Throughout her reign, she showed an interest in childhood and family issues, health and the arts and headed the Luxembourg Red Cross.

Coretta Scott King moves to condo after repeated burglaries at home

ATLANTA, GEORGIA- Martin Luther King's widow moved from the home she bought with her late husband in 1965 after a series of burglaries, including one by a man who later confessed to killing several women in the neighbourhood, her oldest son said Friday. Coretta Scott King, 77, moved in June to a new condominium in Atlanta's upscale Buckhead neighbourhood, her son, Martin Luther King Jr., said. The younger King said the condominium was a gift from "a very dear friend," but the Chicago Defender newspaper reported this week the new home was a gift from Oprah Winfrey. A warranty deed lists the buyer as Overground Railroad LLC, a company that is owned by Winfrey for real-estate transactions, the Chicago Tribune newspaper reported. The American civil rights leader's life will be commemorated on Monday - Martin Luther King Day - when he would have turned 76. He was assassinated April 4, 1968 in Memphis. The family home in southwestern Atlanta's Vine City neighbourhood had a couple of minor break-ins during the early 1990s but the family decided it was time to move its matriarch after a third break-in when the suspect later admitted to killing several women in the area, King said. He did not remember the suspect's name but the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper's archives indicate Georgia death-row convict Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace had broken into the King home in 1990 and years later was convicted in the killings of four women, including three in Vine City. "The neighbourhood's not a great neighbourhood but it's where my dad wanted to live," he said. "And as she was getting older and up in years, we felt very much concerned for her security and safety." King said the burglar broke into the home in the middle of the night and found his mother sitting in her bed. He stole a few items before escaping. King, who moved out himself about four years ago, said security guards were present during the day but his mother often was alone at night. King and his siblings still maintain their childhood home and plan to keep it in the family. "When you've been somewhere for 39 years, it's hard to leave, so she'll tell you it was difficult for her but she is much happier now," he said.