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Leopold III

American  

noun

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


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

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It was Baudouin's first state visit to a foreign country since he became King on the abdication of his father, Leopold III, in 1951.

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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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The problems of the little kingdom, whose King Leopold III is a German prisoner, seemed like a desperate distillation of the problems of much of liberated Europe.

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Dominated by his father, ex-King Leopold III, Baudouin was stiff and shy, seldom made his public feel any warmth toward him.

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