tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666114716955489883.post2683362227151694804..comments2024-02-14T22:57:55.638-05:00Comments on The Cross of Laeken: Death of Leopold IUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666114716955489883.post-28553752027302711652018-08-03T21:17:08.070-04:002018-08-03T21:17:08.070-04:00He didn't not convert because he didn't lo...He didn't not convert because he didn't love his family, etc, just he kept to his own religious principles. It's up to everybody to follow their own consciences. <br /><br />Aswell I hink this need of some to make him into this martyr to the memory of Charlotte do him and his family a disservice. Yes, he loved his first wife, but he loved his 2nd wife and family, etc, too. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666114716955489883.post-63524974497121767852010-04-08T05:01:20.665-04:002010-04-08T05:01:20.665-04:00I am a catholic, so i did wish he converted. But, ...I am a catholic, so i did wish he converted. But, I think that the question of 'will you convert to be reunited with the queen' may have been the reason he remained a protestant. His first wife Princess Charlotte was a protestant and I think he really loved her. I also read somewhere that Leopold wanted to be burried in England besides her (he never really gotten over, he asked a woman who looked like her to marry him in 1931, but she left him because by then he was too cold. It was said that he 'changed' after her death).48 years ago when Princess Charlotte was burried in St. George's Chapel in England, he asked that her side have enough for room for him. I also read that later before his death that he had also already asked permission from Queen Victoria, his niece to be burried in England as well, and she did give her approval. But, they wouldnt allow him to be burried there. I am not sure if it;s his family or the people of Belgium, as he was the king of Belgium they said he must be burried there.It is sad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666114716955489883.post-45028126730696730082009-12-21T14:25:52.307-05:002009-12-21T14:25:52.307-05:00Of course, saying that he "remained firmly Pr...Of course, saying that he "remained firmly Protestant to the end" is subject to the proviso "God alone knowing his heart," etc.Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18230268418171628594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666114716955489883.post-63868776631414364362009-12-10T01:46:08.818-05:002009-12-10T01:46:08.818-05:00He is not my favorite, either, and, as a Catholic,...He is not my favorite, either, and, as a Catholic, I too find it depressing he did not convert. Nonetheless, as you say, he must have really just not believed Catholicism was the true religion. <br /><br />He is buried in the Church of Our Lady, Laeken, although if I recall correctly it was rather a delicate matter, the issue of whether he could be buried there or not, considering he was not a Catholic (not to mention he was allegedly also a Freemason- although I don't suppose that was anything unique in Europeans in high places at the time).Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18230268418171628594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666114716955489883.post-88504720439684428592009-12-10T01:41:11.833-05:002009-12-10T01:41:11.833-05:00He was a statesman of considerable talent and fore...He was a statesman of considerable talent and foresight. For myself I would have preferred that he had converted on his deathbed, but I suppose it speaks for his convictions being sincerely held that he did not. I didn't say so in my last post on him but although he's not my favorite Belgian monarch without him there would have been none of the others.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.com