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In 1900, King Leopold II of Belgium began an affair with Caroline Lacroix (later Baroness of Vaughan), a 16 year old. The affair eventually made him more unpopular in Belgium than his atrocities in the Congo. After Leopold's death in 1909, Caroline inherited much of his property.
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