BreaKING: 'a fourt child' for Belgium's Ex-King, or truth revealed after 51 years!
When shall a hot topic in modern royalty be trending towards popularity nowadays? Are there still such intriguing stories about long-lasting mariages with infidelities, illegitimate children & their claims for parental recognition (if not succession rights); that have not been forgotten in favor of some popular celebrities whom royal media prefer to cover everyday with 90% rumors & just 10% of recycled facts? To find them you shouldn't look very far & wide; as the former King of the Belgians has just admitted such a paternity! Yes, its true & given that King Albert II's 60 year-marriage is still valid makes it even more extraordinary! So let's take a summary of this hot story!
The Prince & Princess of Liege with their children, early 1960s
HM King Albert II was the second son of a King & younger brother of another. He hadn't therefore any intense preparation to succeed the throne, but choose to marry first (in 1959) to Paola Ruffo di Calabria, an Italian noblewoman whose love was reportedly from the first sight. They had quickly three children born, while Albert's elder brother King Baudouin & his (Spanish born) wife Queen Fabiola could not produce any child after seven unsuccessful attempts. It gradually became evident that the Prince of Liege (as Albert's title then was) would succeed the throne, as it happened in 1993, when Baudouin suddenly died without leaving an apparent heir.
In their first years of reign, King Albert II, Queen Paola & their now grown up children enjoyed wide popularity, but a biography of the Queen in 1999 flashed the light to an old, forgotten story! It was back in the late '60s & early '70s, that Albert & Paola's marriage faced a serious crisis. They lived most of their lives in separate, both had extramarital affairs & even were reportedly trying to divorse, but failed due to the strong mandatory of their Catholic knot. However the most threading topic was just to be made public: King Albert had a daughter from his out-of-wedlock affair! The King himself tried to avoid further speculations & in his Christmas speech of that year just referred a dangerous crisis "30 years ago", stating that they have since reconciled. And they did, but IT didn't.
Thus in the early 2000s the indentity of the King's daughter-in-pretendence was revealed: madameDelphine Boël, a skilled sculptor, born in 1968 & by then married, began seeking for recognition from her real father, who of course avoided any contact with her. In the meantime, Delphine's mother, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, claimed via interviews her extramarital affair with King Albert II from 1966 to 1984, the very same time his marriage was in rift; she further revealed that Albert spent enough time with them during their daughter's childhood, who was told the alleged truth by the age of 18. Delphine's legal father, baroness' ex-husband Jacques Boël is a wealthy industrialist, whose properties reportedly exceed even those King Albert could afford to his heirs. Thus madame Boël wasn't interested to inheritance, but wanted to be recognised from her biological father, something the King declined for years.
Philippe of Belgium & his family after his inauguration as new King (2013)
Delphine Boël attends hearing of the constitutional Court
As long as Albert was Sovereign he was granted immunity as Head of state & couldn't be legally judged. In 2013 he abdicated in favor of his son King Philippe, for health reasons. Henceforth he lost the authomatic immunity & Delphine lead a court case against him, demanding from "her father" to publicly confess his paternity over her. After a long, inevitable procedure without consent from either side, Boël's party prevailed & set a deadline for Albert to submit a DNA test; after he passed the limits, the court imposed him a fine of €5,000 for each day he refused to pay. Finally, in late May 2019 the former King agreed to do the test, but still hoped for the right the results not to be revealed in his lifetime; eventually it was ruled down.
Delphine with her then young daughter, signing a book in 2008
The story's factual closure comes at the beginning of past week, when 85-year-old ex-King Albert IIaccepted - through his lawyer - his paternity over Delphine Boël. The monarch stated among others that he had seen the DNA' test's scientific result (which proved 99% positive to Delphine's sample), though argued that socially he didn't take part in serious decisions during the upbringing of his daughter, always respecting her relations to her legal father. From her part, Delphine's party stated that she was relieved for the result after many years of rejection, while recognition was necessary for the 51-year-old to particularly 'prevent her children from the same experience' later. Maybe 7 years of legal battles led to Boël's justification. But relations with the actual father Delphine claimed for never improved, as he did concede to end the "painful" story while she didn't find these final words as elegant, but rather as King Albert 'posed as a victim'.
King Albert II & Queen Paola (sitting centre) celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary with family, in July 2019
The former King, currently a patriarch to the Belgian Royal family of up to three generations, has indeed continued his married life as normal after that difficult scandal half-a-century ago, & celebrated his Diamond Wedding with Queen Paola last Summer; however, his court case which finally led to his lose & humiliation, has already costed very much to his public image, somehow overshadowing his wider popularity & respect he achieved during his 20-year-Reign.
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