Leopold III

American

noun

1901–83, king of Belgium 1934–51 (son of Albert I).

Leopold III British

noun

1901–83, king of the Belgians (1934–51); son of Albert I. His surrender to the Nazis (1940) forced his eventual abdication in favour of his son, Baudouin

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Bound up with the election was the fate of Belgium's exiled King Leopold III.

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Belgium's Christian Socialists maneuvered doggedly for a cabinet that would restore exiled Leopold III to the throne.

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In 1940, when the Crown Prince was just nine years old, he was held with his father Leopold III by the occupying Germans.

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Even a king as young as Leopold III could not miss that cue.

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For the last time handsome, sad-eyed Leopold III looked down from his Laeken palace-prison on swans nodding whitely in a blue lake, on the withering bloom of purple rhododendrons beneath stately beeches.

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