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...week, while a deep red grand cordon was adjusted across his breast in the manner of the transverse strap of a Sam Brown Belt. Soon by a gold safety pin there was attached to M. Franqui the highest decoration in the gift of the Belgian Crown-the Order of Leopold. Twinkling it dangled, glittered: a gold edged white enamel cross suspended from a royal crown and resting on a green laurel and oak wreath, at the centre on a black field the golden lion of Belgium, below the motto L'Union Fait La Force. . . . King Albert of the Belgians...
...Hungarian Parliament passed a decree (1921) affirming its right to elect anyone king, and denying the exclusive right of Otto to the succession. -The complicated Habsburg relationships are best disentangled with relation to the Emperor Leopold II (1747-1792). Franz Josef was his great grandson. Karl was his great-great-great-grandson. And Albrecht is his great-great-grandson. All these through slightly different lines...
...government. When the note had been perused at Mexico City and had been declared no stiffer than usual by Foreign Secretary Saenz, the President had already received the benefit pf all that the newspapers could say on the subject of possible intervention. Leopold and Princess Astrid on their wedding...
...Married. Leopold of Saxe-Co-burp und Gotha and of Flanders, Crown Prince of the Belgians, Duke of Brabant; to Astrid of Ponte Corvo, daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden, niece of the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark; in Stockholm (TIME, Nov. 15) and Brussels...
...year or two ago there died an old lady, the daughter of Leopold I, king of the Belgians. The world at large took no great notice of her death. For nearly 60 years she had lived in seclusion, her mind deranged through a great tragedy...