Albert II of Belgium

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Prince Albert was born in Stuyvenberg Castle, Brussels. OnMay 1940, at the time when Belgium was being invaded, Prince Albert, his elder sister Princess JosphineCharlotte and his elder brother Prince Baudouin, left the country for France and later Spain. The Prince and the Princess returned to Belgium onAugust 1940. They continued their studies until 1944, either at Laeken, or at the Chateau of Ciergnon in the Ardennes. In June 1944, at the time of the Allied landings, King Leopold III, Princess Lilian whom he married in 1941 and the royal children were deported by the Germans to Hirschstein, Germany, and later to Strobl, Austria, where they were liberated by the American Army onMay 1945. Due to the political situation in Belgium, King Leopold and his family moved to the villa Le Reposoir in Pregny, Switzerland, when they left Austria in October 1945 and stayed until July 1950. During that time, Prince Albert would continue his education in a secondary school in Geneva. Kin

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