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==Death and Afthermath==
On 17 December 1909, Leopold II died at Laken, and the Belgian crown passed to Albert I, the son of Leopold's brother, Philippe, Count of Flanders. Leopold's reign of exactly 44 years remains the longest in Belgian history. He was interred in the royal vault at the Church of Our Lady of Laken in Brussels.

In June 2020, the Extreme and violent Black Lives Matter and Antifa movement demonstration in Brussels protested the murder of George Floyd, causing Leopold II's legacy to become once again the subject of debate. Several MPs from the Center-Left Labor and the Extreme Left Green Party agreed to set up a parliamentary commission to examine Belgium's colonial past, a step likened to the Truth and Reconciliation Committee set up in South Africa after the apartheid regime was abolished.