Leopold II of Belgium
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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.
Leopold in 1889
Queen Louise of Orléans with her son Prince Leopold, later Leopold II. Painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1838)
Young Prince Leopold by John Partridge (1841)
Leopold as a younger man in the uniform of the Grenadiers (Portrait by Nicaise de Keyser)
Leopold I of Belgium
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Leopold I was the first king of the Belgians, reigning from 21 July 1831 until his death in 1865.
Leopold II of Belgium
…from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. Born in Brussels as the second but eldest-surviving son of King Leopold I and Queen Louise, Leopold succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and reigned for 44 years until his death, the longest reign of a Belgian…
Portrait by Nicaise de Keyser, 1856
Ehrenburg Palace in Coburg, where Leopold was born in 1790, pictured c. 1900
Napoleon and Alexander I depicted at the Congress of Erfurt
The charge of the cuirassiers at the Battle of Kulm