{"id":2009751,"date":"2025-09-09T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2009751"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:28:12","slug":"belgiums-prince-laurent-confirms-paternity-of-25-year-old-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/belgiums-prince-laurent-confirms-paternity-of-25-year-old-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium&#8217;s Prince Laurent Confirms Paternity of 25-Year-Old Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">This <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/royals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">royal family<\/a> tree has grown a new branch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\"><strong>Prince Laurent<\/strong>, the younger brother of Belgium\u2019s <strong>King Philippe<\/strong>, confirmed to Belgian news outlet <em>Belga <\/em>on September 9 that he has a 25-year-old son.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">The 61-year-old, per the outlet, said he \u201cpublicly recognizes\u201d the paternity of <strong>Clement Vandenkerckhove<\/strong>, which <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belganewsagency.eu\/brother-of-belgian-king-acknowledges-having-25-year-old-son\">Belga<\/a><\/em> reports confirms a long-standing rumor in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">Prince Laurent shares three children\u2014<strong>Princess Louise<\/strong>, 21, as well as 19-year-old twins <strong>Prince Nicolas<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Prince Aymeric<\/strong>\u2014with of 22 yars <strong>Claire Coombs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">E! News reached out to the Belgian royal family for comment but has not yet heard back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">For years, according to <em>Belga<\/em>, there have been rumors of Laurent fathering a child with Belgian actress and singer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wendyvanwanten\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Wendy van Wanten<\/strong><\/a>, whose real name is <strong>Iris Vandenkerckhove<\/strong>. His public recognition of Clement confirms the speculation, however doesn\u2019t affect the line of succession in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This royal family tree has grown a new branch.\u00a0 Prince Laurent, the younger brother of Belgium\u2019s King Philippe, confirmed to Belgian news outlet Belga on September 9 that he has a 25-year-old son.\u00a0 The 61-year-old, per the outlet, said he \u201cpublicly recognizes\u201d the paternity of Clement Vandenkerckhove, which Belga reports confirms a long-standing rumor in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2009752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Belgiums-Prince-Laurent-Confirms-Paternity-of-25-Year-Old-Son.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}