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)
Leopold as a younger man in the uniform of the Grenadiers (Portrait by Nicaise de Keyser)
Leopold II in 1875. Portrait by Louis Gallait
Princess Louise of Belgium
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Princess Louise Marie Amélie of Belgium was the eldest child and daughter of King Leopold II and Queen Marie Henriette of Belgium. She was a member of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a branch of t
Princess Louise, ca. 1894
The Duke and Duchess of Brabant and their two older children Louise and Leopold, Count of Hainaut. Photography by François Deron, 1862.
Marie Henriette, Duchess of Brabant and her daughter Louise. Photography by Louis-Joseph Ghémar, 1863.
Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant on his bier, 1869. Collection Ralf De Jonge.