Clément Vandenkerckhove was nobody until last fall, when he came forward as the secret son of Prince Laurent of Belgium — a truth he himself didn’t learn until he was 16. The physical resemblance between father and son is impossible to miss, and as far as royal scandals go, this one is relatively mild: Laurent had Clément before he married Princess Claire.
In a country where King Albert II was forced by court order to recognize Princess Delphine as his daughter, the existence of a secret son who isn’t even in the line of succession barely registered as an institutional shock. The real story was always going to be about the young man himself…
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