The royal question was a major political crisis in Belgium that lasted from 1945 to 1951, coming to a head between March and August 1950. The question at stake surrounded whether King Leopold III coul
King Leopold III, the subject of the political disagreement, pictured in 1934, the year he came to the Belgian throne
The Belgian crown symbolically resting on the constitution in a nineteenth-century statue of Leopold I
A modern view of the Kasteel van Wijnendale, where the final meeting between Leopold and the Belgian government took place on 25 May 1940
Modern view of the Royal Palace of Laeken, where Leopold was detained during the occupation
The Christian Social Party was a major centre-right political party in Belgium which existed from 1945 until 1968. It is sometimes referred to as the unitary Christian Social Party to distinguish it f
Francophone logo, used c.1958