Sybille de Selys Longchamps
| Sybille de Selys Longchamps | |
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| Coat of arms of Sélys-Longchamps. | |
| Spouse | Jacques Boël (m.1962-1978) Michael-Anthony-Rathborne Cayzer (m.1982-1990) |
| Issue | |
| Delphine Boël | |
| Father | Michel François de Selys Longchamps |
| Mother | Pauline Cornet de Ways-Ruart |
| Born | 28 August 1941 Uccle, Belgium |
Sybille, Baroness de Selys Longchamps (born August 28, 1941) is a Belgian aristocrat. She is known as the mother of Delphine Boël, supposedly the illegitimate daughter of Albert II of Belgium, current King of the Belgians.
Born in Uccle, Belgium, she is the daughter of Count and ambassador Michel François de Selys Longchamps (1910–1983) and Countess Pauline Cornet de Ways-Ruart (1914–1953). In 1962, she married Jacques Boël (°1929), an industrialist and nephew of René Boël. They divorced in 1978 and in 1982 Sybille remarried with a wealthy British widower, the Honorouble Michael-Anthony-Rathborne Cayzer, of the Barons Rotherwick of Tylney (1929–1990), from the family of shipping tycoons.
In 1968, Delphine Boël was born, allegedly from an extramarital affair with Albert of Belgium, who was not king at the time. The purported affair was made public in 1999.
Sybylle has lived with her second husband in London and in his rural estate until the early nineties and lives now in Brussels and mostly in the Provence.
[edit] References
- 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
