The Congo Free State was a corporate state privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians through the Association Internationale Africaine, a non-governmental organization.

When he reached Kamikos, King Cocalus, knowing Daedalus would be able to solve the riddle, privately fetched the old man to him.

King, who served as his own secretary of state for external affairs ( foreign minister ), said privately that if he had to choose he would not be neutral, but he made no public statement.

Elizabeth told Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, " that tour made us ", and she returned to Canada frequently both on official tours and privately.

Mrs. Simpson had been presented formally to both King George V and Queen Mary at court, but Mary later refused to meet her either in public or privately.

The future King Edward IV was born in Rouen on 28 April 1442 and immediately baptised privately in a small side chapel.

At the end of fiscal year 2011, Burger King reported it had more than 12, 400 outlets in 73 countries ; of these, 66 percent are in the United States and 90 percent are privately owned and operated.

The majority of Burger King restaurants, approximately 90 %, are privately held franchises.

The Congo Free State was a large area in Central Africa which was privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians.

He contributed to Archæologia papers ‘ On the Lord Chancellors under King John ,’ ‘ On the Relationship of Bishop FitzJames and Lord Chief Justice Fitzjames ,’ ‘ On the Lineage of Sir Thomas More ,’ and ‘ On the Office and Title of Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer .’ For the Kent Archæological Association, which he helped to found, he wrote a paper ‘ On the Collar of S. S .’; and a privately printed volume of poems, ‘ A Century of Inventions ,’ appeared in 1863.

For instance, German sympathisers in the Sudetenland privately overprinted Czechoslovakian stamps with swastikas before the annexation, and in Italy, after the fall of Mussolini and his establishment of the Italian Social Republic, stamps of the King were overprinted with fasces by Fascist sympathizers.

The village was privately owned, and in the mid-14th century it became royal property of King Kazimierz Wielki, who granted it town charter in 1358.

Maria Christina's husband, King Ferdinand VII of Spain died on 29 September 1833, and on 28 December 1833 she and Muñoz were privately married.

One response is that many of the worst crimes were committed by nondemocracies, like in the European colonies before the nineteenth century, in King Leopold II of Belgium's privately owned Congo Free State, and in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.

The Japanese forced King Gojong privately, without the Queen Consort's knowledge, to sign the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1882 on 10 August 1882, to pay 550, 000 yen for lives and property that the Japanese had lost during the insurrection, and permit Japanese troops to guard the Japanese embassy in Seoul.

The Tower is privately owned and has been fully restored, to include a proofed, working King George 3rd Blomefield 18-pounder cannon mounted on a traversing carriage on the crown of the Tower.

** Congo Free State, a government privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians through the Association internationale africaine

Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King privately purchased the farmstead as part of his country estate at Kingsmere Lake in 1927.

In June 1634 whilst at Woolwich and on the Leopard with the King, Phineas Pett, Peter's father, relates: " His Highness, calling me aside, privately acquainted me of his princely resolution for the building of a great new ship, which he would have me undertake ...."

" Also he is the next day present at the meeting where the details are given: " all their care they now take is to fortify themselves, and are not ashamed of it: for when by and by my Lord Arlington come in with letters, and seeing the King and Duke of York give us and the officers of the Ordnance directions in this matter, he did move that we might do it as privately as we could, that it might not come into the Dutch Gazette presently, as the King's and Duke of York's going down the other day to Sheerenesse was, the week after, in the Harlem Gazette.

While Meighen and other Conservatives expressed public outrage at what they viewed as a desperate attempt on the part of King to cling to power, some Conservatives were privately relieved by King's decision ; they seriously doubted whether the Tories could convince the Progressives to support a Conservative government, were confident that King's attempt to remain in power would eventually fail, and thought the expected debacle would be so damaging to the Liberals ' reputation that the Conservatives would then be swept into office with a large majority.

Since King George VI died in 1952 at Sandringham, Queen Elizabeth II's custom has been to spend the anniversary of her father's death and her own Accession privately with her family at the House, and use it as her official base until February.

The National Civil Rights Museum located in Memphis, Tennessee, is a privately owned complex of museums and historic buildings built around the former Lorraine Motel at 450 Mulberry Street where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

As of 2006, the King Center is a privately owned inholding within the authorized boundaries of the national historic site.

Both Zephaniah and Jeremiah urged King Josiah to enact religious reforms, which he eventually did.

Moore urged Kidd to attack the Dutchman, an act not only piratical but also certain to anger the Dutch-born King William.

These troubles furnished him with a pretext, of which he was not unwilling to avail himself, for postponing the meeting, which was being urged by King Charles VI of France, theologians at the University of Paris, such as Pierre d ' Ailly and Jean Gerson, and Rupert III, King of the Germans, as the only means of healing the Schism which had prevailed so long.

It was during his 1966 stay in the U. S. that Thich Nhat Hanh met with Martin Luther King, Jr. and urged him to publicly denounce the Vietnam War.

After his resignation in October 1761, the King urged Pitt to accept a mark of royal favour.

As Banks's influence increased, he became an adviser to King George III and urged the monarch to support voyages of discovery to new lands, hoping to indulge his own interest in botany.

In vain, the King urged Conservative leaders Balfour and Lord Lansdowne to pass the Budget ( Lord Esher advised that this was not unusual, as Queen Victoria had helped to broker agreement between the two Houses over Irish disestablishment in 1869 and the Third Reform Act in 1884 ), although on Asquith's advice he did not offer them an election ( at which, to judge from recent by-elections, they were likely to gain seats ) as a reward for doing so.

The match with Anne was urged on the King by his chancellor, Thomas Cromwell.

Influential figures such as Galen Clark, clergyman Thomas Starr King and leading landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted were among those who urged Senator John Conness of California to try to preserve Yosemite.

Mountbatten insisted that his friend, Zuckerman, be present ( Zuckerman says that he was urged to attend by Mountbatten ’ s son-in-law, Lord Brabourne, who worried King would lead Mountbatten astray ).

Soon, Charles Albert, the King of Sardinia ( who ruled Piedmont and Savoy ), urged by the Venetians and Milanese to aid their cause, decided this was the moment to unify Italy and declared war on Austria.

Louis Stanislas urged the King to act strongly against the declaration, while the King's popular minister, Jacques Necker, intended to compromise with the new assembly.

The King was outraged, and the Privy Council urged that Brandon should be imprisoned or executed.

The Legislative Assembly of Quebec, however, had urged the committee to not include any of what it deemed as " foreign symbols ", including the Royal Union Flag, and Mackenzie King, then still prime minister, declined to act on the report, leaving the order to fly the Canadian Red Ensign in place .< ref >

At the beginning of 1645, most of King Charles's advisers urged him to attack the New Model Army while it was still forming.

Early on 14 June, ignoring Rupert's advice and urged on by Secretary of State Lord Digby, the King was persuaded that any retreat would lower morale and took the former course.

King Matthias urged Thurzo to bring her to court and two notaries were sent to collect further evidence, but Thurzó successfully convinced the king that such an act would negatively affect the nobility.

When Bulgaria attacked Serbia, with whom Greece had a treaty of alliance, Venizelos again urged the King to allow Greece's entry into the war, and permitted Entente forces to disembark in Thessaloniki in preparation for a common campaign over the king's objections.

In 1981, after being urged by a number of people, including Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., Young ran for mayor of Atlanta.

Ambassadors of the Great Powers urged King Otto not to resist, and the king and queen took refuge on a British warship and returned to Bavaria the same way they had come to Greece ( aboard a British warship ), taking with them the Greek royal regalia which he had brought from Bavaria in 1832.

He had also urged King Sobieski of Poland ( unsuccessfully ) not to side with Leopold I, and pressed the malcontent princes of Transylvania and Hungary to join with the Sultan's forces and free their territory from Habsburg rule.

When being urged to do it by those present, Rollo answered hastily " No, by God ", whereupon the King, turning about, called him bigot, which then passed from him to his people.