New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Belgian king scandal LOVE CHILD PRINCESS

It sounds like the plot of a Danielle Steele novel. An artist learns she’s the secret love child of a European king; the scandal is exposed by a dirt-digging teenage boy, and the king abdicates when he’s confronted with the truth.

Only it’s all true and has recently played out in a Belgian court. Sculptor Delphine Boel has won the right to be recognised as a princess after a DNA test revealed that she is the illegimate daughter

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