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Born. A son, heir apparent to the Belgian throne; to the Crown Princess Astrid Sophie Louise Thrya, niece of King Gustaf V of Sweden; and Crown Prince Leopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel, Due de Brabant. Weight: 8 Ib. 11 oz. Name: Baudouin* Albert Axel Marie Gustave...
...that the "Tiger" generally slept in his clothes, hardly ever allowed them to be pressed, and once wore the same hat for twelve years, know that Valet Albert, however faithful, could never valet satisfactorily exquisite Chief Chiappe, but may make an excellent inspector of police. Chauffeur François Brabant, who dug the grave of the Father of Victory, will soon be installed as curator of a "Clémenceau Museum." Funds are rapidly being raised. Checks are mailed to the Clémenceau estates executor. M. Nicolas Pietri, at the Chamber of Deputies. The "museum" will be either...
Edward of Wales (Britain) Umberto of Piedmont (Italy) Alfonso of the Asturias (Spain) Leopold of Brabant (Belgium...
...Princess Marie José, sole daughter of Their Majesties, performed upon the cello, last week, before a most select and royal audience. Next day loyal Brabant news organs "learned" that H. R. H.'s performance was "in the highest degree creditable." But scurrilous sheets of the separatist Flemish persuasion "wondered" if H. R. H. does not run through sonatas "rather too often, to the accompaniment of M. Eugène Ysaye, the fiddler...
...them more favorable trading privileges in his Congo. Thereafter, as before, the fabulous wealth wrung from strumpeteered Mother Congo was lavished by Wicked Uncle Leopold chiefly upon public works* in Belgium ; secondarily upon his many and riotously extravagant mistresses; and lastly upon his Queen, Marie Henriette, "The Rose of Brabant," a great-niece of Marie Antoinette, a great-granddaughter of Maria Theresa, and "lovelier than either" -as gallant King Leopold often told her. . . . Uncle Leopold visited the Congo as Monarch about 1860, receiving abject homage. Nephew Albert toured the Congo in 1909 as Crown Prince. This, the present state visit...