Hew Locke won the commission, the first of its kind in Belgium, to recontextualise the equestrian statue of King Leopold II in the ... which was chosen from 11 proposals and underwent public ...

He received financial support from the Belgian government ... died in Leopold’s atrocities in the Congo, and I read other stats that the Congo’s total population was 11 million at the time.

King Leopold III of Belgium returned to Brussels on July 22, 1950, after six years of exile. BELGA/AFP Remaining the king of the Belgians at all costs, even under Nazi domination, was the goal of ...

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

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 ...