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Engaged. Princess Josephine Charlotte, 25, sister of Baudouin, King of the Belgians, eldest child of ex-King Leopold III and the late Queen Astrid; and Grand Duke Jean, 31, heir to the throne of Luxembourg; in Brussels...
Escorted by three court cars, two motorcyclists and his stepmother (the Princess de Rethy), King Baudouin of Belgium and his party roared into Hertogenwald forest on what the palace called an "incognito" hunting trip. A squadron of beaters managed to maneuver one wild boar within six yards of the nearsighted King, who scored a clean miss. The tally at the end of the hunt: three wild boar, one hind. The King's bag: nothing...
When Belgium's 21-year-old King Baudouin, the world's most eligible bachelor monarch, left to join his family for a visit in Italy, wishful matchmakers thought they could hear the distant peal of royal wedding bells. The object of their speculation: Princess Margherita, 22, a cousin of the late King Victor Emmanuel. It was more than coincidence, they insisted, that members of both families had met in Rome and Florence...
Belgium's young King Baudouin was wearily sitting it out while post-office officials debated whether the first issue of Belgian postage stamps to picture him should show him with or without his heavy horn-rimmed glasses...
...Belgians are independent cusses. At Baudouin's announcement, there were angry protests. After all, Belgium had been born with Britain's help, and with Britain's help twice liberated from the Germans. Besides, said Belgians, Baudouin was just being rude. Premier Jean van Houtte's government suppressed the announcement of the King's refusal while it tried to talk...