Leopold II ruled Belgium from 1865-1909 - activists ... have Hergé's famous cartoon book Tintin in the Congo, with its depictions of black people now commonly accepted as extremely racist.

"On the occasion of my first trip to Congo, here, in front of the Congolese people and those who ... Getty Images King Leopold II ruled Belgium from 1865-1909 Wednesday's expression of regret ...

A British sculptor has been chosen to make “an artistic intervention” to a divisive statue of the Belgian king whose brutal colonisation of the Congo ... of King Leopold II in the seaside ...

Inside the world's 'most expensive mansion' on sale for £306million on the French Riviera and once home to a king ...