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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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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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The first Free Belgian to parachute into his German-occupied homeland after King Leopold III surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 slipped back to London with a confidential letter.

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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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