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« Reply #60 on: July 11, 2023, 01:41:26 AM »
Queen Marie Henriette played the piano and the haro. She composed her own opera called Wanda.
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« Reply #61 on: July 11, 2023, 03:35:50 AM »
sorry CS, everytime this thread popps up I immediately think of the Leopold (what ever number he was) and the cruelty he commited to the natives in his avarice to grab land in the Congo. Dead

Just finished reading that book.

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« Reply #62 on: July 11, 2023, 04:47:18 PM »
Quote from: getafix on July 11, 2023, 03:35:50 AM
sorry CS, everytime this thread popps up I immediately think of the Leopold (what ever number he was) and the cruelty he commited to the natives in his avarice to grab land in the Congo. Dead

Just finished reading that book.

Cried all the way through.... Cry

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It's this Leopold.  The second.  And to think he was the son of Victoria's revered Uncle Leopold, and her first cousin.  Such a different kind of monarch and parent!
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« Reply #63 on: July 12, 2023, 01:18:08 AM »
King Leopold II is also the first cousin of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
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« Reply #64 on: December 28, 2023, 09:41:39 PM »
King Leopold II of Belgium at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France   
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« Reply #65 on: June 27, 2024, 01:01:00 AM »
Did King Leopold II and Queen Marie Henriette visit her relatives in Austria?
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« Reply #66 on: March 06, 2025, 10:44:11 PM »
King Leopold commissioned a great number of buildings in Belgium. These buildings include the Royal Glasshouses at Laeken.
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