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During the flight, the "King" could not forbear slowing down occasionally to acknowledge the continued cheers of his people. At the gates, the cops grabbed the lot of them—all Louvain University students who had borrowed their fathers' automobiles to stage the royal visit.
Unfortunately the arrest came before the phony King, an 18-year-old medical student named Hugo Engels, could make his supreme gesture—a speech proclaiming a full day's holiday for the school.
Next day, Belgium's real King, Baudouin I, 21, asked that no charges be brought against the pranksters. Said the young pretender (who looks strikingly like Baudouin): "I have lived the most wonderful half hour of my life."