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Leopold I of Belgium
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Belgium is a boiler that needs valves.
— All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 6.
Leopold I of Belgium
German prince who became the first King of the Belgians (1790–1865)
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Lived 1790–1865, aged 75Germany
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He turned down Greece, took Belgium instead, and became the first king of a brand-new country assembled by treaty in 1831 — chosen because his diplomatic bloodlines stretched across Europe and his British ties made him safe for the balance of power.
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The youngest son of a minor German duke, Leopold fought Napoleon in the Russian army after French troops rolled through Saxe-Coburg. He moved to Britain in 1816 and married Princess Charlotte of Wales; the marriage was happy but ended after a year and a half when she died delivering a stillborn son. He stayed on in Britain with considerable status. After the Greek War of Independence he was offered the Greek throne under the 1830 London Protocol but turned it down as too precarious. Belgium, newly independent in 1830, offered him its crown instead — he had the royal connections and wasn't alig…
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Leopold I of Belgium
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He is as uncontrollable and crabby as one can imagine. Not to be understood, because neither his mother nor his father is like that.
— Prince Leopold I about his son (The later infamous Leopold II) in a letter to his niece Queen Victoria in 1844..
Leopold I of Belgium
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My heart knows of no other ambition than that of seeing you happy.
— Foreign Relations of the United States, Translation of the speech from the throne. On ascending the throne, Leopold I to the Belgians.
Leopold I of Belgium
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Take a serious look at yourself. Ask yourself questions about your mood, the way you view the world and people, think about your mistakes and the dangers they unleash.
— Leopold I In a letter to his son Prince Leopold II
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I am saddened by the case of Constantinople, this journey was so well served to you, and you have spoiled it with a childishness.
— Leopold I In a letter to his son Prince Leopold II
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