Sybille de Selys Longchamps

Who is Sybille de Selys Longchamps?

Sybille, Baroness de Selys Longchamps is a Belgian aristocrat. She is known as the mother of Delphine Boël, who claims to be the illegitimate daughter of Albert II of Belgium, former King of the Belgians.

Born in Uccle, Belgium, she is the daughter of Count and ambassador Michel François de Selys Longchamps and Countess Pauline Cornet de Ways-Ruart. In 1962, she married Jacques Boël, 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, 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.

Sybille has lived with her second husband in London and in his rural estate until the early 1990s and lives now in Brussels and mostly in the Provence.