ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Belgium swore in Philippe as its new king on Sunday after his father Albert II abdicated.<br/> <br />Philippe's investiture was tagged onto festivities already planned for July 21, which is Belgium's national day and also marked 20 years of Albert's reign.<br/> <br />The new king and his family watched a military parade from a stage erected in front of the Royal Palace.<br/> <br />Philippe is the seventh king of the 183-year-old country which is split across the middle. Many Dutch speakers seek greater autonomy for Flanders in the north and are wary of a monarchy seen to be rooted in the once powerful, but now poorer French-speaking Wallonia in the south.<br/> <br />But at least for the day of the coronation the crowd outside the palace was in a festive mood.<br/> <br />Fewer than half of the people in Flanders believe Philippe will be a good king compared with two-thirds in Wallonia, according to an opinion poll.<br/> <br />Belgian kings do plenty of handshaking and r
