World & Nation
Former Belgian King Albert II meets with artist Delphine Boel, now recognized as Princess Delphine after a bitter two-decade paternity fight.
Oct. 27, 2020
With four lavish homes and a fuel-guzzling yacht to maintain, retired Belgian King Albert II is reportedly finding it difficult to get by on his royal pension of $1.2 million a year.
Nov. 7, 2013
California
Peg Lynch, a trailblazer for women in broadcast entertainment who wrote, owned and starred in one of television’s first sitcoms, “Ethel and Albert,” has died.
July 28, 2015
BRUSSELS — King Philippe I became Belgium’s seventh monarch during a national holiday on Sunday after his father Albert abdicated as the head of this fractured nation.
July 21, 2013
There was no comment from the palace last week when the French magazine Paris Match broke the story that Prince Albert of Monaco had fathered a son, now 21 months old, with an African woman named Nicole Coste.
May 12, 2005
King Albert II got top marks in the Belgian media Monday for a Christmas message that was widely seen as a public acknowledgment that 31 years ago he fathered an out-of-wedlock daughter.
Dec. 28, 1999
Prince Albert will succeed his late brother King Baudouin as Belgium’s monarch, the prime minister announced Sunday, dashing expectations that Albert’s son would take the throne.
Aug. 2, 1993
Music
B.B.
June 28, 1990
HE PLAYED THE BLUES: Just over a week ago, “Godfather of the Blues” Albert King was thrilling a new generation of fans at the Rhythm Cafe in Santa Ana.
Dec. 23, 1992
Albert King had been talking about new music, new records, new tours and other plans in the weeks before he died of a massive heart attack Dec. 21 in Memphis, just days after performing his last official concerts in Los Angeles.
Feb. 7, 1993