King Leopold II. entering the Church of St. Gudule, at Brussels - from a sketch by our special artist, 1865. On the day after his father's Protestant funeral, '...his Majesty, who is a Catholic, attended divine worship in the Church of St. Gudule, where a Te Deum was performed with great pomp and ceremony, as a consecration of the new reign'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.

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