Leopold II of Belgium

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Person.png Leopold II of Belgium  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(royal, Belgium/VIPaedophile)
BornApril 1835
Brussels, Belgium
Died17 December 1909 (Age 74)
Laeken, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
Parents • Leopold I of Belgium
• Leopold I of Belgium
Spouse • Marie Henriette of Austria
• Caroline Lacroix

Employment.png King of the Belgians

In office
17 December 1865 - 17 December 1909

Leopold II was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.


VIPaedophile

Adam Hochschild in his book King Leopold’s Ghost tells how:

“In April 1885,only six weeks after his diplomatic triumph at Berlin, the king was named in a British courtroom as one of the clients of a high-class "disorderly house" prosecuted at the urging of the London Committee for the Suppression of the Continental Traffic in English Girls. Leopold had paid £800 a month, a former servant of the house testified, for a steady supply of young women, some of whom were ten to fifteen years old and guaranteed to be virgins. A Paris newspaper reported rumors that Leopold had secretly crossed to England in his yacht and paid a royal sum to the house’s madam to be sure his name was not mentioned again. More likely, what made the case close with unusual speed was that the Prince of Wales was said to be another of the establishment’s customers. The British home secretary sent a special observer to the court, apparently a veiled message to all concerned that the less said, the better. After pleading guilty, the madam of the house got off with a remarkably light fine.”
Adam Hochschild (1998)  [1]



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