I'm Feeling Lucky

16 Facts About King Baudouin

1.

King Baudouin was the last Belgian king to be sovereign of the Congo.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,838
2.

Prince King Baudouin was born on 7 September 1930 in the Chateau du Stuyvenberg, near Laeken, Brussels, the elder son and second child of Prince Leopold, then Duke of Brabant, and his first wife, Princess Astrid of Sweden.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,839
3.

King Baudouin's mother died in 1935 in an automobile accident, when King Baudouin was nearly five.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,840
4.

King Baudouin's education began at the age of seven, his tutors taught him half his lessons in French and half in Dutch.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,841
5.

King Baudouin frequently accompanied his father to parades and ceremonies and became well known to the public.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,842

Related searches

Brussels Sweden United States Geneva Aragon Foreign Affairs Belgium Catholic Church Moise Tshombe Spain
6.

However, King Baudouin was about to be invested as a Scout and persuaded his father to delay the ban for one day so that the ceremony could take place.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,843
7.

King Baudouin continued his education at a secondary school in Geneva and visited the United States in 1948.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,844
8.

On 15 December 1960, King Baudouin was married in Brussels to Dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,845
9.

At Kennedy's, King Baudouin was accompanied by Paul-Henri Spaak, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and former three-time Prime Minister of Belgium.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,846
10.

In 1976, on the 25th anniversary of Baudouin's accession, the King Baudouin Foundation was formed, with the aim of improving the living conditions of the Belgian people.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,847
11.

However, due to his religious convictions—the Catholic Church opposes all forms of abortion—King Baudouin asked the Government to declare him temporarily unable to reign so that he could avoid signing the measure into law.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,848
12.

Lumumba's speech infuriated King Baudouin and generated extreme conflicts between the two men.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,849
13.

King Baudouin strengthened his relationships with the Katangese politician Moise Tshombe, whom he made a Knight in the Belgian Order of Leopold.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,850
14.

King Baudouin died of heart failure on 31 July 1993 in the Villa Astrida in Motril, in the south of Spain.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,851
15.

King Baudouin was interred in the royal vault at the Church of Our Lady of Laeken, Brussels, Belgium.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,852
16.

King Baudouin was succeeded by his younger brother, who became King Albert II.

FactSnippet No. 1,371,853