Biography

Delphine was unearthed as the illegitimate daughter of King Albert II of Belgium last year in an unauthorised biography of Queen Paola. She is the product of a brief affair between the king and Sybille de Selys Longchamp, a Belgian aristocrat.

Delphine moved to London with her mother as a child, and was sent away to school at Le Rosey in Gstaad. She ’rebelled and ran away from these posh rich homeless fellow students, who had at least five homes and no parents, only money’.

Delphine eventually graduated with merit from the Chelsea School of Art, and now makes papier-mâché sculptures at the Great Western Studios near Paddington. Her last show featured a multicoloured cow wearing a crown, which excitable tabloids saw as a dig at her royal connections.