Belgium’s former king has submitted a DNA sample demanded from a woman who says she is his daughter after a court ordered him to pay 5,000 euros ($5,586) a day if he failed to do so, Reuters reports.
The 84-year-old King Albert II agreed to submit a sample even though he is challenging at the supreme court a ruling that has resulted in him having to take a paternity test, lawyer Alain Berenboom said on Tuesday.
“He noted that the court had decided that the conclusions of this examination would be strictly confidential until a new judicial decision,” Berenboom said in a statement.
The retired monarch, who abdicated six years ago in favor of his son Philippe, has been fighting the paternity claim of Belgian artist Delphine Boel, 51, for over a decade.
His lawyers argue it is premature for him to take a paternity test while Boel still has a legal father, Jacques Boel, scion of one of Belgium’s richest industrial dynasties.
The challenge at the supreme court concerns a lower court ruling that Delphine Boel is not Jacques Boel’s offspring, which DNA tests have shown. That resulted in the Brussels appeals court ordering him to undergo...
Read full story
