In a jaw-dropping interview, Belgian Prince Laurent, the brother of King Philippe, attempted to defend his colonialist grandfather King Leopold II — who turned the Congo into a slave state — after ...

Leopold II presented himself as Belgium’s builder king, but his wealth and prestige were tied to the horrors of the Congo Free State. He claimed vast land as his personal colony, using the Force ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hew Locke, the British artist, will ‘interrupt the view’ of the King Leopold II statue with golden symbols of the Congo’s ...

Update, June 10, 2020: A 50-year-old statue of King Leopold II was removed from a public square in Antwerp. The same statue had previously been set on fire in protest last week. A spokesperson for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue of former Belgian King Leopold II, a controversial figure in the history of Belgium, stands in the city of Ghent BRUSSELS ...

A long-controversial statue of former Belgian King Leopold II has been taken down after it was set on fire last week during global unrest over the police-custody death of George Floyd, according to a ...

A Change.org petition created by a teenager has garnered more than 60,000 signatures calling for the removal of statues of King Leopold II in Brussels amid global anti-racism protests sparked by the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Affleck will direct King Leopold’s Ghost, a fact-based drama about the plunder of the Congo by Belgium’s King Leopold II in the late 1800s. One Community, which co-financed Just Mercy, ...

Statues depicting slave traders and influential tyrants have become the target of protesters in the last two weeks, as people continue on Black Lives Matter demonstrations around the world. A statue ...

'Leopold II had never been to Congo. So I don't see how he would have made people suffer there,' says his great-nephew, Prince Laurent James Crisp is The Telegraph’s Europe Editor. He has covered the ...