Former King of Belgium
Born: 9 April 1835
Death: 17 December 1909
I have looked at who deserves to be included in my list of the world’s 10 worst heads of state of the last 150 years. The reason why I concentrate the list in this interval is simply to make it a bit clear. This means that people such as Qin Shi Huang and Genghis…
If you are king and die, the bier is escorted through the streets of the capital while a grieving people mourn their king. For Leopold II’s funeral in Brussels on 22 December 1909 it was different, when the people stood to show their displeasure when the bier passed. Why such an unpopular king? Yes,…