KING OF BELGIANS
REPORTED MARRIAGE TO COMMONER. SURPRISE EXPRESSED BY EMBASSY. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, December 7. A report that King Leopold, of Belbium, has remarried has caused great surprise in Belgian circles in London. Members of the Belgian Embassy said they could not believe the story. The report emanated from the Berlin radio, whose announcer said the news was contained in a pastoral letter which the Archbishop of Belgium issued for reading in all churches in Belgium today. The letter stated that the children of the second marriage had no right to the throne. The announcer also said that King Leopold was still living ip Laeken Castle. The wife of Prince Charles of Sweden, who is a brother of the late Queen Astrid, confirmed that King Leopold had married a commoner. Another message from London states that King Leopold was married on September 11. His wife’s correct name is Mary Lilian Baels. She will bear the title of Princess of Rethy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1941, Page 6
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