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 inspired Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

By late March 1945, Belgium and the southern Netherlands had been liberated but Belgium's King Leopold III was being held captive in Austria. Leopold's mother feared that the Nazis would murder ...

Millions of Congolese suffered acts of cruelty under colonisation, particularly during the reign of King Leopold II, who owned the Congo Free State as his personal property. Getty Images King ...

Ray Leopold was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on December 13, 1914, the son of a Jewish immigrant from Latvia. He graduated from Wilby High School in 1933 and became a mortgage broker.

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He is asked by Belgian King Leopold to go to Africa to see what he has done there to help the country. Initially, he refuses. But an American, George Washington Williams, wants him to accept so he ...

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

Historically, European countries had only been interested in small trading posts, but following King Leopold II’s research, they were now rushing to gain control of huge parts of land that would ...