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Charles , Theodore, Henri, Antoine, Meinrad of Belgium , prince of Saxony-Cobourg-Gotha, duke of Saxony, prince de Belgique, Count de Flandre (Brussels, October 10th 1903 - Raversijde, June 1st 1983) is the second wire of the king Albert I {{er}} and of the queen Elisabeth. It has a brother, the king Léopold III, and a sister, the Marie-Jose queen of Italy. In 1910, it is titrated count de Flandre by his father. In 1917, the powers of the Agreement propose the throne of Greece to him after the departure of king Constantin Ier, too judged germanophile, but king Albert Ier refuses.
During the invasion of Belgium by the Germans in August 1914, the three children of the royal couple are sent in England where they will remain during the First World War. Prince Charles undertakes then his military formation in the Royal Navy British until in 1926 where it returns to Belgium.
In 1940, prince Charles takes part in the Countryside of the Ten-Eight-Days, then remains in Brussels. At the time of the deportation of the king Léopold III and his children by the Germans on June 6th, 1944, prince Charles hides in a small farm of Sart-lez-Spa. In September 1944, Belgium is released but the King is always prisoner. His/her Charles brother is named regent kingdom by the joined together Rooms. He lends oath on September 20th, 1944 and exerts the royal prerogatives until the return of the king Léopold III in Belgium on July 20th 1950. Many considers that prince Charles saved the dynasty.
Under its regency, Belgium lived the royal Question, indicator to follow one another of many governments. This somewhat chaotic time did not prevent Belgium from being among the countries founders of the Benelux (1944), of UNO (1945), of NATO (1948) and of the the Council of Europe (1949).
After 1950, in cold with his/her brother, it is withdrawn in the royal field of Raversijde (close to Ostend) where it was devoted to painting under the name of Charles of Flanders (or Karel van Vlaanderen). In 1961, it gives up definitively the equipment which the Parliament granted to him.
He would have married religieusement, on September 14th, 1977, Jacqueline Peyrebrune.
The last years of its life are remembered by lawsuits the opponent with former financial advisers who had swindled it and ruined. The town of Ostend repurchases in 1980 the field of Raversijde, where it will create after its death a memorial Prince Charles.
He dies on June 1st 1983 at the hospital of Ostend and has right one week later to national funeral in Brussels, marked by the absence of the king Léopold III and the princess Lilian de Réthy with which he was never reconciled. Prince Charles is buried near his ancestors in the royal crypt of the church Notre-Dame de Laeken.
External bond
- Internet site of the Memorial Prince Charles in Raversijde
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