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Prince Charles, Count of Flanders

1903 - 1983

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Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (Dutch: Karel, German: Karl; 10 October 1903 – 1 June 1983) was a member of the Belgian royal family who served as regent of Belgium from 1944 until 1950, while a judicial commission investigated his elder brother, King Leopold III of Belgium, as to whether he betrayed the Allies of World War II by an allegedly premature surrender in 1940 and collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of Belgium. Charles' regency ended when Leopold was allowed to return to Belgium. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prince Charles, Count of Flanders has received more than 378,856 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Prince Charles, Count of Flanders is the 3,327th most popular politician (up from 3,626th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 130th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Belgian Politician.

Prince Charles, Count of Flanders is most famous for being the son of King Philip I of France and Queen Adela of Flanders.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders ranks 3,327 out of 19,576Before him are Istakhri, Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, Drypetis, Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, and Boris Tadić. After him are Stephen Bocskai, Ptahhotep, Ismail Qemali, Otto I, Duke of Bavaria, Pausanias of Sparta, and János Áder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders ranks 49Before him are Empress Kōjun, Bing Crosby, John Eccles, Andrei Grechko, Rudolf Abel, and Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark. After him are John Vincent Atanasoff, Claudio Arrau, Giulio Natta, The French Angel, Yisrael Kristal, and Vladimir Bartol. Among people deceased in 1983, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders ranks 31Before him are Aleksandar Ranković, John Fante, Klaus Nomi, Luis Monti, Anna Seghers, and Muddy Waters. After him are Maurice Ronet, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Benigno Aquino Jr., Georges Auric, George Balanchine, and Mercè Rodoreda.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders ranks 119 out of 1,190Before him are Morris (1923), Yves Chauvin (1930), Elio Di Rupo (1951), Frans Snyders (1579), Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (1724), and Henri Vieuxtemps (1820). After him are Adriaen Brouwer (1605), Paul Deschanel (1855), Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502), Princess Louise of Belgium (1858), Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1787), and Ambiorix (-100).

Among POLITICIANS In Belgium

Among politicians born in Belgium, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders ranks 35Before him are Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522), Marie José of Belgium (1906), Gerard de Ridefort (1141), Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon (1673), Elio Di Rupo (1951), and Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (1724). After him are Paul Deschanel (1855), Princess Louise of Belgium (1858), Ambiorix (-100), Jacob Le Maire (1585), Louis, Prince Napoléon (1914), and Louis II, Count of Flanders (1330).