Leopold & Ladies

That deeply grieving widower, young King Leopold III, had his private secretary call correspondents to the Royal Palace last week, made a denial as rare as Queen Mary's one & only (TIME, Dec. 21). "His Majesty is greatly disturbed over reports carried in an English Sunday newspaper that His Majesty is engaged to marry a niece of the King of Denmark," said the private secretary. "I am instructed to make formal denial of this rumor and all similar rumors. That is all, gentlemen. I need not remind you that various news sources in the past month have set afloat rumors of the engagement of King Leopold to no less than eight different ladies."

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