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Visiting the Royal Greenhouses - a memoir and a reading

Author showcase: a travel memoir of a visit to the Royal Greenhouses (Serres Royales) in Laeken, Brussels. This is a literary teaser to promote my forthcoming collection of creative writing, memoir and photography: The Supercargo's Magazine: For Your Consideration. The Royal Greenhouses are only open to the public for a very limited period "when the flowers are in bloom". I visited the greenhouses and photographed them in 2015, posting the memoir on my blog. Now I have chosen to include this piece in my forthcoming collection of writing and photography The Supercargo's Magazine: For Your Consideration (due out in mid-August 2024). I wanted to read the text and include the photos in a teaser video. Now I'm living back home in Sweden, in Gothenburg, the best place to read it seemed to be the Botanical Gardens. This was not without its problems, as you'll see and hear. But the pictures from the Serres Royales come through well. The Royal Greenhouses were built by Belgium's most questionable monarch, Leopold II. He set up his own private slave state in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) and used the wealth he squeezed out of Africa, in part, to build the greenhouses. Chapter timestamps 0:00 – Intro and Author vlog frame story 1:28 – The reading begins/setting the scene 2:58 – The greenhouses visit, the crowds and standing in line 4:33 – The plants and the greenhouses 6:13 – Leopold II, the Crystal Palace and the greenhouses 7:15 – The modern Royals 7:54 – Thanks and apologies 8:54 – Some final thoughts about Leopold II and the modern exploitation of the Congo Notes ------- All the photographs used are my own with the exception of the picture of the geraniums at the 5:12 mark. For some reason (probably boredom) I took no pictures of the geraniums though there were so many. This geranium photo is by Rajesh S Balouria [https://www.pexels.com/@rajesh-s-balo...] via pexels.com, to whom, my thanks. The cartoon of Leopold II surrounded by skulls at 6:18 is a contemporary caricature and the engraving of the Crystal Palace in 1815 (6:36) is a contemporary image. Both included with thanks to Wikimedia Commons.