Word: baudouine
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...monarchy, but only the Catholics, fervently keynoting the Belgian anthem's refrain, "Le Roi, la loi, la liberté" had campaigned to have Leopold back. Brussels thought the reluctant left-wing parties would agree to recall him-to abdicate in favor of his 15-year-old heir, Prince Baudouin...
...Belgians to uphold Parliament's decree of banishment in a national referendum. The issue would not be the monarchy, but Leopold. Three years hence, Leopold's son Prince Baudouin, 15, if he grew up of a sufficiently royal figure to fit the battered royal throne, would presumably become King of the Belgians...
...Marie-Lelia Baels, while most of his subjects were suffering under the German occupation; 3) thereby become the son-in-law of a rich Belgian industrialist about to face a charge of collaboration with the enemy. There was no expressed opposition to the King's eldest son, Prince Baudouin, 14, whom Leopold's younger brother, Prince Regent Charles, was training for the pleasures of kingship...
...blame the King for his 1940 surrender, but many blame him for not encouraging resistance. Still others resent his second marriage after the death (in a car he was driving) of popular, Swedish-born Queen Astrid. To all these Belgians, a regency for Astrid's handsome son, Prince Baudouin, 14, looked good. The next few weeks would tell whether the stewardship of the Government in Exile looked equally good...
...Bavaria. From neutral sources came a picture of the royal offspring, taken while they were still happily grouped on the grounds of the Palace of Laeken in Brussels (Josephine Charlotte, 16; Albert, 10; Alexandre Emmanuel, 2-Leopold's only child by his second wife, Marie; Crown Prince Baudouin...