Princess Josephine Charlotte is the last Princess of Belgium who received a present of our lost Congo.
Our lost Congo?! You can’t be serious! This is, in view of the unprecedentedly cruel past, even by colonial standards, for which Belgium is responsible in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a wording that cannot possibly be meant seriously!
"The Congo we have tortured, exploited and oppressed" would be a more appropriate term, which at the same time makes it clear that accepting Congolese wedding gifts to Belgian royal princesses was a disgrace then, just as it would be today.
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