"The Belgian royal family, always eager to form alliances with the Hapsburgs, had married..."

“The Belgian royal family, always eager to form alliances with the Hapsburgs, had married Leopold’s younger sister Charlotte to Archduke Maximilian, brother of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary.”

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King Leopold’s Ghost:A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, by Adam Hochschild

Everyone who’s ever studied Mexican history: *screams*