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: A Story of ...

Leopold I, King of the Belgians. Leopold continued to live in England for the next 14 years, until an accord between Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, and Austria officially established ...

KING LEOPOLD DENIES CHARGES AGAINST HIM; Is Poorer Instead of Richer Because of the Congo, He Says. NOT A MONSTER, EITHER May Have Been Misjudgment and Even Crime in the African Region, but No ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Comes Down In Belgium—Here’s Why. ByCarlie Porterfield, Former Staff. I cover breaking news. Jun 30, 2020, 05:51pm EDT Jun 30, 2020, 05:56pm EDT.

Between 1885 and 1908, the Belgian King Leopold II personally ruled the Congo Free State, which was also known as the Independent State of the Congo. Because he ruled the state personally, he had ...

King Leopold of Belgium has been the Pied Piper of royal romance in MASTERPIECE’s Victoria, shrewdly matching his nephew, Prince Albert, with the young Queen Victoria, his niece.

LEOPOLD NOT TO ABDICATE.; Reports of King's Enforced Retirement Not Considered Well Founded.