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<h6><br /><span style="color: #211c1c;"><strong>In surprise ruling, Belgian court orders former King Albert II to pay $5,588, [€5,000] a day until he takes a DNA test to resolve a long-running paternity dispute</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #211c1c;"><strong>The Belgian royal was ordered by the Brussels court to provide DNA sample six moths ago, but he has refused to comply</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #211c1c;"><strong>Delphine Boël, 50, who is claiming to be his daughter, has been trying to establish paternity for years</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #211c1c;"><strong>She filed her lawsuit in 2014, but a lower court ruled Boel could not rely on forensic evidence [DNA], to establish paternity</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #211c1c;"><strong>Claimant&#8217;s mother, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, has claimed she had an affair between 1966 and 1984 with then Prince Albert of Liège</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #211c1c;"><strong>King Albert II, the country&#8217;s former monarch, who stepped down for health reasons, has not explicitly denied the paternity claims <br /></strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #211c1c;"><strong>Boël&#8217;s attorneys say she&#8217;s not motivated by money, coming from a billionaire family herself<br /></strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #211c1c;"><strong>If her case is successful, Boël would be 15th in line for the Belgian throne</strong></span></h6>
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<div><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-319308" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/King-Albert-II-2.png" alt="King Albert II 2" width="517" height="369" /><br /> <strong>King Albert II, 84, [photo] so far has ignored court order to attend provide a DNA sample in the presence of a justice official to establish paternity of a 50-year-old woman. Now he will pay a daily fine until he complies<br /></strong></span></div>
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<div>A Belgian appeals court has ruled that the country&#8217;s former monarch, must pay $5,588 [€5,000] for each day that he refuses to provide DNA in a case brought by a woman who claims to be his love child. <br />King Albert II, 84, was ordered by the Brussels court to attend an appointment and provide a DNA sample in the presence of a justice official. He will be fined for each day he fails to respect that appointment. <br />Artist Delphine Boël, 50, has been trying to establish paternity for years and her story has often made headlines.<br />Albert has never publicly denied being her father but has refused to provide DNA despite a November court order to do so.<br />In February, <a class="story-body__link" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47096017">he refused to undergo such a test</a> in a case aimed at proving he fathered a love child in the 1960s. <br /><br /></div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-319319" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Delphine-Boel-2.jpg" alt="Delphine Boel 2" width="624" height="351" />King&#8217;s love child? 50-year-old Artist Delphine Boël, [photo], has been trying to establish paternity for five years and her story has often made headlines. Her attorneys say she&#8217;s not motivated by money, coming from a billionaire family herself</strong></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">In November last year the court ruled that King Albert must provide the DNA which came as a surprise after a lower court ruled Delphine Boël could not rely on such forensic evidence to establish paternity. <br />Boël claims that King Albert II had an affair with her mother Sybille de Selys Longchamps.<br />The ruling gave Albert three months to provide a DNA sample which would be used to determine if he was Boël’s father. <br />If Boel&#8217;s case was successful, she would be 15th in line for the Belgian throne. <br />Boël started court proceedings in 2014 and her lawyer Alain De Jonge at the time said that his client is not motivated by money as she is a member of a major Belgian industrial family worth $1 billion.</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-319309" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/King-Albert-II-1.png" alt="King Albert II 1" width="516" height="409" /><br /> Six months ago, a court ruled the retired King, [photo], must provide the DNA which came as a surprise after a lower court ruled Delphine Boël could not rely on such forensic evidence to establish paternity</strong></h6>
<div>Rumors the king had an illegitimate child first emerged in 1999 in an unauthorized biography about biography of Queen Paolo, Albert&#8217;s Italian wife.<br />The allegation prompted a royal scandal and enduring media gossip in Belgium.</div>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">It said Albert had formed an extra-marital relationship resulting in the birth of a daughter in the 1960s, when his brother Baudouin was king. Delphine Boël first alleged on the record that King Albert was her biological father during a 2005 interview.<br />Her mother, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, has claimed the two had an affair between 1966 and 1984 when he was still Prince Albert of Liège.<br />However, following his older brother&#8217;s death in 1993 at 62, King Albert unexpectedly came to the throne.<br />He sat on the throne until July 2013, when he announced his abdication &#8211; citing ill health &#8211; and was replaced by his son.<br />Shortly after, Boël opened court proceedings to prove her paternity, provoking speculation the scandal had influenced the move.</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-319307" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Line-of-Succession-of-Belgian-Monarchy-.png" alt="Line of Succession of Belgian Monarchy" width="448" height="655" /><br /> King Albert II abdicated to his son Philippe in 2013 due to health reasons. If her case is successful, Boël would be 15th in line for the Belgian throne</strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">The former king has never commented on the possible existence of such a daughter but did refer in his 1999 Christmas message to a crisis in his marriage 30 years earlier, the time of Boel&#8217;s birth. </div>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Albert abdicated to his son Philippe in 2013 due to health reasons. <br />Earlier this year, he refused to fulfill a November 2018 court order to undergo DNA testing and launched an appeal.<br />A court had initially set a three-month limit for him to provide a saliva sample for testing &#8211; saying that without it, Delphine Boël was be assumed to be his daughter and be eligible for any inheritance.</div>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Belgium has a constitutional monarchy in which the king plays a largely ceremonial role. The retired monarch reportedly receives an annual income of about $1.18m [€1m].</div>
‘The King is My Dad!’ Belgian court orders former King Albert II, 84, to pay $5.6K a DAY until he takes a DNA test to resolve long-running paternity dispute with woman, 50, claiming to be his daughter – Delphine Boël has been trying to establish paternity for years
