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...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...
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...
...Quislings.' " Goebbels, with his fat dossiers on the vulnerabilities of all foreign notables, believed that treason was a surer method than revolution. In Belgium, for instance, Rosenberg's Degrelle movement failed; but Personnel Department B obtained the services of Henri de Man, with his influence over Leopold; and Lieut. Dombret of the Belgian General Staff sold Germany Belgium's secret plans for defense long before the war broke out. Agents of the Department-B type also got such unbribable men as Pétain and Weygand where they wanted them. Despite the pre-war Parisian wisecrack...