Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage

[Ajay0]

A Belgian car salesman was acknowledged as a prince after a paternity test confirmed his biological father to be Prince Laurent , brother to the King of Belgium.

Delphine Boel was an another illegitimate daughter of Prince Laurent, who fought a court battle for many years till she too was acknowledged as his daughter and claimed the title of princess in 2020.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/22/europe/prince-belgium-secret-son-scli-intl

[enchanted]

Crazy. The invisible, arbitrary, and completely fabricated social contracts we have created and follow, and in some cases make society possible (e.g. money) are wild. 

[Basman]

Bro never heard of a condom.

Now his "happy little accidents" are coming for his bank account and demanding royalty.

Edited 14 hours ago by Basman

[enchanted]

57 minutes ago, Basman said:

Bro never heard of a condom.

Now his "happy little accidents" are coming for his bank account and demanding royalty.

Haha, that's a good way to put it

[LordFall]

I find it really cringe for parents to forsake their children like this. Can you imagine being a prince and still being a deadbeat dad? So common too; straight up out of game of thrones. 

[Leo Gura]

The cringe part is thinking of oneself as royalty.

[LordFall]

4 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

The cringe part is thinking of oneself as royalty.

I don't think the term or even the idea of placing one's self above the masses is that problematic. I think if you the ambition to rise up that's one thing but it should come with integrity.

In classical Athens, they had the concept of the liturgy where if you accumulated immense wealth and status, society placed a massive, direct burden of competence and civic duty onto you. You were expected to personally fund warships, maintain infrastructure, and finance public institutions out of your own pocket. Status was tied directly to how much societal weight you could bear.

That part of status I feel is earned and balanced. We have today and there always were the upper class that is purely parasitic and leashes value from the population without providing much in return. If he is the type of prince to pop out kids and leave them to fend for themselves I assume he is in the latter camp.