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King Leopold II Of Belgium: The Most Evil King In History by Tgnnews247: 2:21pm On May 21, 2023
King Leopold II was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. He was popularly known as the Builder King and his brutal administration of the Congo Free State. The said administration was characterized by atrocities and systematic brutality, including forced labor, torture, murder, and kidnapping. Also, over 10 million Congolese were killed due to violence and famine caused by the regime. This has led many historians to classify Leopold II as the most evil King in History.

Biography of King Leopold II
Biography For King Leopold II

King Leopold II was born in Brussels on 9 April 1835. He was the second child of the Belgian monarch, Leopold I, and his second wife, Louise, the daughter of King Louis Philippe of France. Louis Philippe had been forced to flee to the United Kingdom, following the French Revolution of 1848. He, however, died two years later, in 1850. Leopold’s fragile mother was deeply affected by the death of her father and died of tuberculosis that same year when Leopold was 15 years old.

Leopold’s sister Charlotte became Empress Carlota of Mexico in the 1860s. The British monarch at the time, Queen Victoria, was Leopold II’s first cousin since Leopold’s father and Victoria’s mother were brother and sister. At the age of 18, Leopold married Marie Henriette of Austria, a cousin of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and granddaughter of the late Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, on 22 August 1853 in Brussels. The marriage produced four children: three daughters and one son, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant.
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Re: King Leopold II Of Belgium: The Most Evil King In History by illicit(m): 3:03pm On May 21, 2023
E no go better for him, e no go rest well....

He was a Christian o

shocked
Re: King Leopold II Of Belgium: The Most Evil King In History by charlesdinho(m): 8:06pm On May 21, 2023
illicit:
E no go better for him, e no go rest well....

He was a Christian o

shocked

yes, he was a christian but not christ-like
Re: King Leopold II Of Belgium: The Most Evil King In History by Illegal1(m): 8:26pm On May 21, 2023
Omoh........abeg abeg,he still beta pass buhari.
Re: King Leopold II Of Belgium: The Most Evil King In History by mysticwarrior(m): 9:29pm On May 21, 2023
Was he more Ruthless than Ivan the terrible, Ghengis Khan and Adolf Hitler?

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