On 9 Apr, 16:22, Spider Pig wrote:
> Wed 09/04/08 - Nine years after being revealed as the out-of-wedlock
> daughter of the Belgian king, Delphine Bo=EBl, 40, says she no longer
> craves her father's acknowledgment that she is his daughter.
>
> In a book published this week entitled "Cutting The Umbilical Cord"
> Delphine Bo=EBl says she "no longer obsesses" about the fact King Albert
> II has yet to accept her as his daughter.
> (VRT)
>
> Speaking on VRT television on Tuesday, the artist who currently lives
> in London, called her book "a trip back into time. I had so many
> questions about my origin, my parents, rejection etc."
>
> "I had to cut the umbilical cord," she said, adding she was tired of
> being King Albert's "dirty laundry."
>
> Delphine Bo=EBl's existence was revealed in a 1999 biography of Queen
> Paola, King Albert's Italian-born wife, as the daughter of the Belgian
> monarch and Sybille Baroness de Selys Longchamps, the wife of a former
> Belgian industrialist.
>
> In his Christmas message that year, King Albert admitted to an
> extramarital affair in the late 1960s saying it nearly wrecked his
> marriage to Queen Paola.
>
> He added, "We won't dwell on this subject which is part of our private
> lives."
> (VRT)
> Black sheep of the family?
>
> Since 1999, Delphine Bo=EBl has made several public appearances in
> Belgium hoping to normalise relations with King Albert, who has three
> grown-up children with Queen Paola.
>
> That never happened. In the interview Delphine Bo=EBl says "she is fed
> up with being seen" as a destabilising factor.
>
> She said she attracted media attention not because of her art "but
> because I am the king's dirty laundry."
>
> The interview shows the artist among her art - brightly coloured
> papier mach=E9 dolls and collages.
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