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...favorite subjects for school Christmas plays is a potpourri entitled "Christmas in Many Lands" and tracing Santa's journey from the Arctic wastes to the fireside of every nationality, dropping gifts indiscriminately in Belgian sabots, Persian slippers, and even Japanese clogs. The moral has something to do with the brotherhood of man, and everybody ends up singing carols...
...wedding of the 1930 season took place in Rome. Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, glamor boy extraordinary, was marrying Belgian Princess Marie-Jose. Standing in the Pauline Chapel of the royal palace during the ceremony was another glamor boy, a little gloomy, but slightly angelic with the light catching his golden hair. He was Leopold III, Crown Prince of the Belgians, already married three years to Swedish Princess Astrid...
...Rome at the time and thrilled to the back teeth was an 18-year-old Belgian girl, Marie-Lelia Baels. She was a commoner, a descendant of Ostend fisherfolk; royal glamor boys were out of her class. But her eyes were fixed on the Pauline Chapel wedding and she was sorry when it was all over...
Henri Baels entertained lavishly, sent his family to the swank seaside resort Le Zoute, on the Belgian-Dutch border. Leopold, now King and widowed, often went down to Le Zoute to golf. When he was reported on the course, Marie-Lelia and her sisters would slick up, take a bag of clubs and skip off to have a round of golf. Leopold soon became conscious of witty Marie-Lelia. He enjoyed her company, chatted with her when he could. And he never forgot...
Last week Berlin announced that on Sept. 11 Leopold had married Marie-Lelia Baels, renouncing for any children of the marriage the right to the Belgian throne. The renunciation was largely academic. Eleven years had almost leveled the stations of the dark-eyed commoner and Bel gium's morose prisoner...