A watercolour showing the view from the drawing room at Château de Laeken, Brussels. Trees are shown in the foreground, to the left. Buildings are shown in the middleground with fields stretching out behind. Inscribed below pasted down sheet: View from the Drawing room at Laeken. - Aug: 12. 1852. Inscribed lower right: VR. del Aug: 12. 1852. On 10 August 1852, Queen Victoria set sail from Osborne to Belgium on the Royal Yacht, Victoria & Albert. The Royal family stayed at the Château de Laeken with Queen Victoria's uncle King Leopold of Belgium from 12 to 14 August 1852.