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Artist Delphine Boël has brought her case against her father, the former King of Belgium Albert II to the court. Appealing to the Brussels court, the beloved daughter of the former monarch wants to be granted “exactly the same privileges, titles and capacities” that the other sons of Albert II have had all his life, his lawyer Marc Uyttendaele.
Speaking about Ms Boël’s case, the lawyer said: “Delphine’s position is not that she wants or does not want to be a princess.
“She doesn’t want to be a cut-price girl, she wants to have exactly the same privileges, titles and abilities as her brothers and sister.”
A ruling in favor of Ms Boël can have lasting effects.
Reports suggest that a victory for Ms Boël at court could make her children eligible for a royal title, just like King Albert II’s other grandchildren in the line of succession to the throne.
But the former monarch’s lawyer says the court has no power to hand over titles and that only a royal decree would make Boël a princess.
King Albert II fought against claims that he was Mrs Boël’s father for decades.
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His mother, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, said that she and Albert II had been involved in an affair for 18 years before he was crowned king.
The Belgian aristocrat also claimed that royalty had been around during Ms Boël’s childhood.
Speculation surrounding an illegitimate son of King Albert II was sparked in 1999 after the publication of an unauthorized biography of the monarch’s wife, Queen Paola.
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Mrs Boël spoke publicly for the first time and claimed that she was the loving daughter of King Albert II in 2005.
However, he was only able to open legal proceedings in 2013, after he abdicated in favor of his first-born, King Philip, and lost his judicial immunity.
Despite the initiation of the legal case against him, the former king initially resisted court orders to submit to DNA testing.
He only relented when told he faced fines of £ 4,500 (€ 5,000) for each day he would delay testing.
After “knowing the results of the DNA tests”, Albert II recognized Ms Boël as his fourth child.
King Albert’s lawyer issued a statement on January 27 that read: “Scientific findings indicate that he is the biological father of Mrs. Delphine Boel.
“King Albert has decided to end this painful procedure in good conscience.”
The lawyer for the beloved girl described this royal admission as a “relief.”
He continued: “His life has been a long nightmare due to this search for identity.”
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