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...Marie-Lelia's father, Henri L. Baels, was an ambitious man. His father, though one of the fisherfolk, had managed to send Henri to a good school. Henri had become a lawyer and blossomed into better society. He joined the Flemish Catholic Party, was elected deputy of Ostend, later became Minister of Agriculture. In 1930, the year young Marie-Lelia was in Rome, he lost his ministerial job. He soon wangled an appointment as Governor of West Flanders Province and moved to Bruges, dreamy capital of West Flanders, Marie-Lelia then went home to enjoy a new life...
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...
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...