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• Leopold II of Belgium  + (<font face="{{{font}}}">“In April 18 … <font face="{{{font}}}">“In April 1885,only six weeks after [[Berlin Conference|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 [[Edward VII|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.”the house got off with a remarkably light fine.”)

• Leopold II of Belgium  +