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FILE PHOTO: Luxembourg's Grand Duke Jean waves from his car during a visit to the Belgian northern city of Ghent, Belgium November 19, 1999. REUTERS/Benoit Doppagne/File Photo
Jean returned to Europe in 1942 to receive military training at Sandhurst in Britain. He briefly served as a guard at Buckingham Palace before joining Allied forces in Normandy in 1944, taking part in the battle of Caen. During his 36 years as the head of state, his country of half a million inhabitants wedged in between Belgium, Germany and France, turned from an industrial backwater into an international financial hub.
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