I will be more and more concerned with giving you sound and true political ideas, few people are better able to do this than I; since the age of 16 I have been involved in the big affairs of Europe.
Source, in full
A royal puppet show in the Belgian royal family. The education of the first Belgian royal children. (Greet Donckers) AKP, Fund Leopold I, III Archives Conway, Letter from King Leopold I to Prince Leopold, 11 November 1850, 20/3.