BRUSSELS, July 6 (RIA Novosti) - Colonel Noel Vaessen, former adviser to Belgian Prince Laurent, has accused King Albert II of Belgium of a 35-year-old road accident that killed two people, a local television station said Friday.
The colonel has published a book in which he accuses King Albert of being behind the wheel of a speeding car that crashed into an oncoming vehicle.
In 1972, the young prince was said to have been riding in a car driven by his friend Patrick Lang in the city of Stavelot, in the province of Liege. Lang reportedly lost control and crashed into a car belonging to a German couple, killing them both on the spot.
Lang was sentenced to two years in prison.
Vaessen now claims that it was in fact Prince Albert who was driving the car, and that he later changed places with his friend to escape punishment. Lang has denied the accusations, saying it would have been impossible to exchange places given the circumstances of the crash.
