Based on Conrad’s own terrible journey into the Congo in 1890, and the horrors he beheld there while it was under the sway of King Leopold of Belgium’s monstrous regime, the novella, published in 1899 ...

Tom and Dominic set out on their shocking journey into the history of the subjugation of the Congo Free State to the monstrous King Leopold of Belgium.

140 years ago this November at the Berlin Conference, Belgium’s King Leopold was recognized as the sole owner of the Congo Free State, a territory including the entirety of today’s Democratic ...

King Leopold III, young Belgian monarch, today received a Jewish deputation consisting of the Chief Rabbi of Belgium, Dr. Joseph Wiener, and representatives of the Jewish consistory.

Since Congo was given to Belgian King Leopold as personal property, it was known as Leopold’s Congo. He later sold it to his country to avoid possible big power dispossession, and it became ...

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Leopold III was crowned the King of Belgium in 1934. In September 1939, when World War II broke out, Britain and France asked Belgium to join them. But Leopold and his government refused stating ...

Inside the world's 'most expensive mansion' on sale for £306million on the French Riviera and once home to a king ...