Leopold III

American  

noun

1. 1901–83, king of Belgium 1934–51 (son of Albert I).

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Leopold III British  

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Foremost European exponent of the need for economic cooperation between nations in order to avoid another World War is young, vigorous Leopold III, Statesman-King of the Belgians.

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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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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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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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Tall, handsome Leopold III, 57, was a hard-luck monarch.

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