Roslyn
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Note that there are more cases where the natural father does not acknowledge his/her child. The Duke of Parma has fathered a child with a friend (a much older lady). When the child -Carlos jr.- was born, the secretariate of (then) Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme stated that "the choice of having a child was the mother's own and independent decision. There will be no any legal band with the child". A quite cryptic communiqué. The son, Carlos jr., is not acknowledged by the natural father but -like Delphine- grows up in well-to-do circumstances (his mother is a stepdaughter of the Count van Rechteren-Limpurg) and like Delphine with her alleged father, there were contacts -holidays even with the De Bourbon de Parmes and with the Orange-Nassaus.
C'est la vie.
There's acknowledging, and there's acknowledging. From this description it sounds to me that Prince Carlos has impliedly acknowledged the child. The difference with Albert is that he has not in any way publicly acknowledged the connection.
And I reject Carlos' statement that the choice of having a child was the mother's own and independent decision. Surely as a good Catholic he is not saying she should have had a termination! Once Carlos made the decision to stick his you-know-what* where it had no business being, he was just as responsible for the not unusual consequences of that decision. He's still the father, regardless of any legal bond.
(*Thank you, PetticoatLane.)