Delphine Boël

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Delphine Boël (2008)

Delphine Michèle Anne Marie Boël (born February 22, 1968 in Uccle , Belgium ) is a Belgian artist and an illegitimate daughter of the former King Albert II.

Life

Coat of arms of the Boël family

Boël is the daughter of Baroness Sybille de Sélys Longchamps . At that time, her mother was still married to the industrialist Jacques Boël, whose last name was Delphine. Delphine Boël grew up in London after her mother's divorce from Jacques Boël . She received her school education in a boarding school in Switzerland. She then completed an art degree at the Chelsea School of Arts in London, from which she graduated in 1990 with a BA fine arts (honors).

Boël works as an artist and creates collages and sculptures , including paper mache . Since 2000 she has had several exhibitions.

Delphine Boël lives with the Texan James "Jim" O'Hare, with whom she has two children.

Relationship to Albert II.

In 1999 Mario Danneels wrote in his biography about Queen Paola ( Paola, van "la dolce vita" tot koningin ) that King Albert II had a illegitimate daughter. Albert II had not recognized paternity until January 2020. In a Christmas speech in 1999, however, he admitted that his marriage had been in crisis thirty years earlier.

In 2005, Boël described the relationship between her mother and Albert II in an interview. The relationship between the two existed from 1966 to 1984. Albert even had plans to divorce his wife Paola. Boël declared to be Albert's daughter. He also looked after her in her childhood and visited her and her mother. At least since 1999 there has been no contact between Albert and her, as Boël and her mother complained in various interviews.

In April 2008, Boël's autobiography Couper le cordon (" Cutting the umbilical cord") was published. In it she writes that she thinks she is Albert's child, but has given up hope of recognition from him. The press largely treated Boël as the daughter of the former king.

In 2013, Boël filed a paternity lawsuit against Albert, demanding a DNA test. The competent Brussels court then turned to the Constitutional Court to clarify, on the one hand, whether a child can contest paternity, although in Belgium the mother's husband is automatically legally considered the father of a child, and, on the other hand, whether the case was statute-barred, which Alberts did Lawyers explained. In both cases, the Constitutional Court ruled in favor of Boël at the beginning of 2016, who could now challenge Jacques Boël's paternity. In September 2014, according to her lawyers, a DNA test found that Jacques Boël is not her biological father.

At the beginning of November 2018, a court ruled that Albert had to undergo a paternity test within three months. At the end of January 2020, a lawyer for the former monarch announced that the DNA test had confirmed Albert II to be Boël's father. After years of litigation, Albert II admitted on Jan. 27, 2020 that he was the father of the artist Delphine Boël.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b ORF at / agencies red: DNA test: Belgium's ex-king has illegitimate daughter. January 27, 2020, accessed January 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ http://www.delphineboel.com/
  3. ^ Albert et Delphine dos à dos , www.parismatch.be of April 26, 2018, accessed on November 5, 2018
  4. ↑ Original text of the address in Dutch  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.monarchy.be  
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / michelbouffioux.skynetblogs.be
  6. ↑ dpa / fas: Belgian royal family: Alleged daughter accounts with Albert II. In: welt.de . April 9, 2008, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  7. ↑ See for example Tagesspiegel, November 12, 2007 : "The result of one (read: one) of the affair of the monarch lives in London, the young artist Delphine Boël, who comes from a connection between Albert and a Belgian noblewoman."
  8. ↑ "Delphine Boël finally wants to be a king's daughter" welt.de of June 18, 2013
  9. ↑ "Paternity proceedings against Belgium's ex-King Albert are permitted" ( Memento from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) donaukurier.de from February 3, 2016
  10. ↑ King Albert II is forced to take a paternity test: Does he have an illegitimate daughter? , haz.de of November 5, 2018, accessed ibid
  11. ↑ Later triumph for Boël: Belgium's ex-king: DNA test proves illegitimate daughter , zeit.de of January 27, 2020, accessed ibid
personal data
SURNAME Boël, dolphins
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boël, Delphine Michèle Anne Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Uccle