Early this year Albert acknowledged, the father of reigning King Philippe, after years of legal battle and a DNA test that he is Boël’s biological father. But the 52-year-old artist Boël was not satisfied with that. She wants to be treated like Albert’s other legitimate children.
And the Brussels Court of Appeal has now agreed to this. Boël is given the surname of King Albert, Saxe-Coburg, and also receives the titles ‘Her Royal Highness’ and ‘Princess of Belgium’, writes VRT News.
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Boël has been saying for years that Albert, the father of the current King Filip, is her biological father. She is a daughter of Sybille de Sélys-Longchamps, who had an affair with Albert in the 1960s.
DNA-test
Delphine did not learn from her mother that King Albert II was her biological father until 1985, when she was 17 years old. In 1999 the secret was revealed by the journalist Mario Danneels. A DNA test had already established that the man who raised her, the businessman Jacques Boël, was not her biological father.
Boël only went to court for the first time in 2013, because she wanted to be recognized as the biological daughter of the retired monarch. A DNA sample was taken from the king in May 2019. That only happened after Albert was imposed a penalty of 5000 euros for each day that he would not donate DNA.
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