Controversy around Laurents visit to Congo & meeting Libyan diplomats - Mar/Apr 2011

[Esmerelda]

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0412/1224294481779.html
Prince Laurent is getting quite a lot of international press. If the anecdotes in the article are true, I'm not surprised about his reputation as an 'enfant terrible'

 

[mgrant]

Goodness Gracious!

Does anyone else think he's a little too old to be behaving like an infant? He needs a time out!!!!!!

 

[Bones]

Considering the situation in Congo perhaps this statement is rather perplexing.

And what does he have to do with the "situation in the Congo"? How has Prince Laurent hurt them? Is there more to this than I know or are he and his family just born guilty for being relatives of Leopold II?

 

[Esmerelda]

And what does he have to do with the "situation in the Congo"? How has Prince Laurent hurt them? Is there more to this than I know or are he and his family just born guilty for being relatives of Leopold II?

From what I understand according to the articles, the Belgian government is not getting on very well with Congo. Laurent could have been seen as representing them. I don't think this is about colonial guilt.