Sybille de Selys Longchamps

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Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps (born August 28, 1941) is a Belgian aristocrat. She is famous for being the mother of Delphine Boël, illegitimate daughter of Albert II of Belgium, current Belgian monarch.

Born in Uccle, Belgium, she is the daughter of Count Michel François de Selys Longchamps and Countess Pauline Cornet de Ways-Ruart. In 1962, she married Jacques Boël, a well-known industrialist and nephew of René Boël. In 1968, Delphine Boël was born from an extramarital affair with the Albert of Belgium, not King yet back then. The affair went public in 1999.

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