If Leopold II dies before Berlin Conference?

It appears to me that the primary reason for the Belgian Control of the Congo after the Berlin Conference comes from the Colonial drive of King Leopold II *and* the desire to keep the Congo out of the hands of a single power.

But without Leopold, what happens to the Congo? Is the desire to put it in the hands of a weak power strong enough that Belgium ends of with the Congo anyway. I see *zero* likelihood that Leopold II's heir at that point, his brother Prince Philippe would want it as personal property, and am not even sure that the Belgian Government would want it, ideas?
 
The Congo would not go to any great powers. So no British, French or German Congo. It won't go to countries, who don't care about it. So no Dutch, Danish or Swedish Congo. Most likely the Congo ends up Portuguese.
 
OTL FACTS- 1884 the International Congo Association decided that France had the right of preemption to take the Congo if the association ever failed. Belgium agreed to this in Article 1 of the treaty of cession that turned it over to Belgium "The Belgian government recognizes that France has a right of pre-emption over its possession on the Congo in case of their alienation..." The fact of the matter is that the Congo would have been French. If Germany demanded anything regarding France's occupation it would have ended like the Moroccan Crisis, and maybe they would have gotten concessions elsewhere, but it would have convinced the British even earlier that the Germans were bullies, much as the Moroccan Crisis hurt German credibility.
 
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