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The former King of Belgium, Albert II, refused to submit to a paternity test, as requested by the courts in October, to find out if he was the father of visual artist Delphine Boël, announced his lawyer Friday.
The 84-year-old former officer appealed the two decisions rendered by the Brussels Court of Appeal in June and October 2018, Alain Berenboom said in a statement.
"His Majesty King Albert II will not be subjected to any DNA badysis until the court has pronounced his sentence," the statement added.
Delphine Boel claims to be born of a long relationship between her mother, the Sibylle aristocrat of Sélys Longchamps, and his heir, Albert, who has always denied being his father.
The former ruler, married in 1959 to Paola Ruffo di Calabria and the father of the current King Philip, has always denied any family relationship with Boel.
In 2013, the artist initiated a process of recognition of paternity before a court of Brussels.
In 2017, the courts did not even allow him to challenge the paternity of the industrialist Jacques Boël.
But in a judgment of October 25, the Brussels Court of Appeal rejected this decision and ordered Albert II to submit to a DNA test.
According to Berenboom, the appeal suspends this obligation, a legal badysis that Boel's lawyer, Marc Uyttendaele, does not share because "given the age of the protagonists, it is necessary , as a precaution, to do the genetic test ".
The lawyer badured AFP that this was meant to "avoid the obligation to resort to unpleasant and uncomfortable situations such as performing a post-mortem DNA test or involving the offspring "of Albert II.
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