Some time ago, I wrote a book about one of the great crimes of the last 150 years: the conquest and exploitation of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium. When King Leopold’s Ghost ...

Queen Victoria's uncle Leopold returns to the palace in season three of Victoria. Here's what he was like in real life. Who was King Leopold I? Born in Coburg, Germany on December 16, 1790 ...

King Leopold II took over leadership of Belgium from his father, King Leopold I, in 1865, and in 1885, hoping to gain power and wealth as well as assuming control of overseas territories like most ...

Noah, a slight teenager wearing jeans and sneakers, is dwarfed by the bronze statue of Belgium’s King Leopold II astride a horse. The statue, set high on a concrete plinth, has stood opposite ...

I have many points of disagreement, to put it mildly, with Bruce Gilley’s lengthy diatribe against my book, King Leopold’s Ghost (“King Hochschild’s Hoax,” April 17, 2023). The clearest ...

Another statue of King Leopold II, a 19th-century Belgian colonizer king, has been taken down in Ghent as his descendant, the current King Philippe of Belgium, expressed remorse at the role his ...

On Friday the younger brother of Belgium's King Philippe, Prince Laurent, defended his ancestor saying Leopold II was not responsible for atrocities in the colony "because he never went to Congo".

Victoria’s scheming King Leopold offers new insight into his role on the series, where he looks for inspiration when playing real-life characters, and why he sees Leopold as both a kingmaker and ...

The death of King LEOPOLD, especially at the present moment, is an event of the utmost gravity for Belgium. This death had long been foreseen, and the consequences that it might have with regard ...