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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That issue was "the royal question": should the Queen Mother's exiled son, King Leopold III, be recalled to the throne from which he had been barred by Parliament in 1945?

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

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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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King Leopold III of the Belgians, since 1940 a Nazi prisoner, was reported reunited with his children in Bavaria.

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