Sybille de Selys Longchamps
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Sybille de Selys Longchamps | |
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| Born | Baroness Sybille Michèle Emilie Marie Ghislaine de Selys Longchamps 28 August 1941 Uccle, Belgium |
| Spouses | Michael Anthony Rathborne Cayzer
(m. 1982; died 1990) |
| Children | Princess Delphine of Belgium |
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Countess Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Hon. Mrs. Rathborne Cayzer (born 28 August 1941) is a Belgian noblewoman. She is the former mistress of King Albert II, with whom she has a daughter, Princess Delphine.[1]
Born in Uccle, Longchamps is the daughter of Count Michel François de Selys Longchamps (1910–1983) and Countess Pauline Julie Cornet de Ways-Ruart (1914–1953). In 1962, she married Jonkheer Jacques Boël (born in 1929), an industrialist and nephew of Count René Boël. They divorced in 1978 and in 1982 Sybille married a wealthy British widower, the Honourable Michael Anthony Rathborne Cayzer (1929–1990), a younger son of shipping tycoon Herbert Cayzer, 1st Baron Rotherwick.
In 1968, gave birth to daughter Delphine Boel. Longchamps was engaged in an extra-marital relationship with Prince Albert (later King) of Belgium. [2] In 2013, the Baroness granted an interview with Belgian network VIER in a television special entitled, 'Onze dochter heet Delphine' (Our Daughter is Called Delphine). [3]
De Selys Longchamps lived with her second husband in London and at his rural estate until the early 1990s and lives now in Brussels and Provence.
References
- ^ "Belgium's ex-King Albert II admits fathering child after DNA test". BBC News. 27 January 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ Higgins, Andrew (2013-07-19). "Belgium Is Also Awaiting Possible News of a New Royal". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- ^ https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2013/09/04/_we_didn_t_take_precautionsithoughticouldnthaveababy-1-1720671/
- Oscar Coomans de Brachène, État présent de la noblesse belge, Annuaire de 1998, première partie (de Selys Longchamps), p. 187-197, Brussels, 1998.
- Oscar Coomans de Brachène, État présent de la noblesse belge, Annuaire de 2003, seconde partie (Boël), p. 354-358, Brussels, 2003.
- Delphine Boël, Couper le cordon, Brussels, ed. Wever & Bergh, 2008