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Leopold was born in Brussels on 9 April 1835, the second child of the reigning Belgian monarch, Leopold I, and of his second wife, Louise, the daughter of King Louis Philippe of France. [7] His eldest brother, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, died in infancy in 1834. As heir apparent, Leopold was granted the title of Duke of Brabant in ...
Leopold I [b] (born Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; 16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was the first king of the Belgians, reigning from 21 July 1831 until his death in 1865.
The book, also a general biography of the private life of Leopold, succeeded in increasing public awareness of these crimes in recent decades. [ 2 ] The book was refused by nine of the ten U.S. publishing houses to which an outline was submitted, but became an unexpected bestseller and won the prestigious Mark Lynton History Prize for literary ...
Leopold III [a] (3 November 1901 – 25 September 1983) was King of the Belgians from 23 February 1934 until his abdication on 16 July 1951. At the outbreak of World War II, Leopold tried to maintain Belgian neutrality, but after the German invasion in May 1940, he surrendered his country, earning him much hostility, both at home and abroad.
King Leopold II of Belgium had been the principal shareholder in the Belgian trading company which established trading stations on the lower Congo between 1879 and 1884. [91] At the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 the future Congo was personally assigned to Leopold, who named the territory the Congo Free State.
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Leopold I, first King of the Belgians, Founder and First Grand Master of the Order. Uniform of HM Albert I, Royal Collection of Belgium Count Paul de Smet de Naeyer, Grand Cordon King Albert II (on the right) in 2005, with the Dominican Ambassador to Brussels Cartoon depicting king Leopold II of the Belgians who is throwing medals to crowd
Leopold, the first King of Belgium with strong connections to the British Royal Family, made a dynastic match with Louise who was the eldest daughter of the French monarch Louis Philippe I. [3] [4] France had provided military support to Belgium against the Netherlands during recent fighting in the wake of the Belgian Revolution.