Word: lelia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catholics, all Belgian parties of the left and center had joined to resist the royal return. Behind this loud resistance was Belgian loud resentment because Leopold had: 1) surrendered to Germany in 1940 instead of continuing the war in exile; 2) married a commoner, comely Mademoiselle 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...
...King Leopold III of the Belgians his bride of last September has borne a son, according to the London News Chronicle. The boy, reported born Dec. 30, was named Philip, Prince de Rethy. The Belgian throne will never be his by succession, for when Leopold wed the striking Marie-Lelia Baels, a commoner, last Sept. 11 he renounced such a right for any children by that marriage...
When the Nazis invaded Belgium, the Baels fled to France. Leopold was confined to his palace at Laeken. He had little left in life except his two sons and daughter. But when the Baels returned to Belgium, he was glad to have Marie-Lelia call on him. She was one of the few people permitted...
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...
Marriage Revealed. King Leopold III of the Belgians; and Marie-Lelia Baels, daughter of an ex-member of Belgium's Cabinet; near Brussels...