Prinsara
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"Eccentric" is giving up your apanage to be a painter. (Or in his mother's famous example, playing your violin in a bomb crater for the acoustics.)
"Weirdo" is making a specialty of disappearing and trying to make people believe you are in another country for some unspecified reason.
I'm very sorry for Charles. He must have felt greatly unloved to harbor as much resentment as he did, but many children feel they aren't the preferred one and it doesn't seem to twist them quite as much. (Even Laurent has managed to be part of the family, just.)
It's also perfectly possible to be a model constitutional regent and not let your nearly-starved-and-murdered brother be accused of treason. It's ironic that whatever Charles did for most of the war is somewhat more open to suspicion.
Leopold made mistakes. Charles capitalized on them. That's an opportunist.
In a royal family, you're in or you're out. You can't decide to be royal only when no one else is around. If Charles really cared about his country and wanted people to appreciate him, he could have used his post-regency leverage to assist Baudouin. He ran off, instead. Again.
It's really questionable whether it's Leopold's shadow or his own that he ended up living in.
"Weirdo" is making a specialty of disappearing and trying to make people believe you are in another country for some unspecified reason.

I'm very sorry for Charles. He must have felt greatly unloved to harbor as much resentment as he did, but many children feel they aren't the preferred one and it doesn't seem to twist them quite as much. (Even Laurent has managed to be part of the family, just.)
It's also perfectly possible to be a model constitutional regent and not let your nearly-starved-and-murdered brother be accused of treason. It's ironic that whatever Charles did for most of the war is somewhat more open to suspicion.
Leopold made mistakes. Charles capitalized on them. That's an opportunist.
In a royal family, you're in or you're out. You can't decide to be royal only when no one else is around. If Charles really cared about his country and wanted people to appreciate him, he could have used his post-regency leverage to assist Baudouin. He ran off, instead. Again.
It's really questionable whether it's Leopold's shadow or his own that he ended up living in.