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Belgium’s artist and sculptor Delphine Boel leaves after a press conference in Brussels, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. Artist and sculptor Delphine Boel is on the cusp of officially becoming a Belgian princess after a Brussels court on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020 ruled in her favor in a decades-old royal paternity scandal pitting her against former King Albert II.
Belgium’s artist and sculptor Delphine Boel talks to journalists during a press conference in Brussels, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. Artist and sculptor Delphine Boel is on the cusp of officially becoming a Belgian princess after a Brussels court on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020 ruled in her favor in a decades-old royal paternity scandal pitting her against former King Albert II.
Belgium’s artist and sculptor Delphine Boel talks to journalists during a press conference in Brussels, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. Artist and sculptor Delphine Boel is on the cusp of officially becoming a Belgian princess after a Brussels court on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020 ruled in her favor in a decades-old royal paternity scandal pitting her against former King Albert II.
Belgium’s artist and sculptor Delphine Boel listens to a question during a press conference in Brussels, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. Artist and sculptor Delphine Boel is on the cusp of officially becoming a Belgian princess after a Brussels court on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020 ruled in her favor in a decades-old royal paternity scandal pitting her against former King Albert II.
Belgium’s artist and sculptor Delphine Boel smiles during a press conference in Brussels, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. Artist and sculptor Delphine Boel is on the cusp of officially becoming a Belgian princess after a Brussels court on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020 ruled in her favor in a decades-old royal paternity scandal pitting her against former King Albert II.
Belgium’s artist and sculptor Delphine Boel listens to a question during a press conference in Brussels, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. Artist and sculptor Delphine Boel is on the cusp of officially becoming a Belgian princess after a Brussels court on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020 ruled in her favor in a decades-old royal paternity scandal pitting her against former King Albert II.
FILE – In this Tuesday, July 17, 2008 file photo, Belgium’s Queen Paola and King Albert II pose for photographers at the Royal Palace in Laeken, Belgium. Artist and sculptor Delphine Boel is on the cusp of officially becoming a Belgian princess after a Brussels court on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020 ruled in her favor in a decades-old royal paternity scandal pitting her against former King Albert II.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Delphine Boel has been acknowledged as Belgian Princess Delphine of Saxe-Coburg, after a two-decade royal paternity scandal. Still, she said on Monday she’d still rather be considered an artist than a royal.
Last week, a Belgian court ruled in her favor and officially recognized her as the daughter of former King Albert II, something the aging monarch had fought tooth and nail to avoid ever since the paternity allegations became public.
Princess Delphine said going to court was all about getting family recognition and the love of a father who had always coldshouldered her. “For me to go to court, especially for that, to be recognized by my own blood, my own father, felt so unnatural,” she told reporters on Monday.
“It is a sort of unnatural life I was living that was most painful,” the 52-year-old said during an emotional press conference.
The former king, whose son Philippe is the reigning monarch, could still make an ultimate legal appeal at the Court of Cassation, but Princess Delphine said the case was unlikely to go that far. “I think it is finished now.”
King Albert decided in January to no longer fight a claim that he is Boel’s father, after he finally agreed to have a DNA test and received the results. Rumors about Albert and Boel’s mother, the aristocratic wife of a well-heeled industrialist, had been around for years. But the news that the king might have had a child with her broke into the open when a biography of Albert’s wife, Queen Paola, was published in 1999.
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