Baudouin I, King of the Belgians was born Boudewijn Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave on September 7, 1930 and died on July 31, 1993. He became King when his father King Leopold III abdicated on July 16 1951.
On December 15, 1960 he was married at Brussels to Doña Fabiola Fernanda Maria de las Victorias Antonia Adelaïda Mora Y Aragon, who was born at Madrid, Spain on June 11, 1928.
During his reign the colony of Belgian Congo was given its independence. In 1976, on the 25th anniversary of Baudouin's coronation the King Baudouin Foundation was formed, with the aim of improving the living conditions of the Belgian people.
He reigned for 42 years, and died of heart failure in Motril, in the south of Spain. Because the marriage was childless, he was succeeded by his brother, who became King Albert II.
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