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This prince who dreamed of ending the German state

2022-12-09T18:03:33.385Z


STORY - Henry XIII, whose family once reigned partly over Thuringia, plotted to recover a throne. From our correspondent in Berlin Graying hair pulled back, beige velvet trousers, a tweed jacket, and his face partly hidden by a surgical mask: this is how the general public discovered Prince Henry XIII of Reuss, handcuffed and surrounded by police leaving his home in Frankfurt, Wednesday morning, October 7. The elegant-looking 71-year-old was arrested on suspicion of being the mastermind and i


From our correspondent in Berlin

Graying hair pulled back, beige velvet trousers, a tweed jacket, and his face partly hidden by a surgical mask: this is how the general public discovered Prince Henry XIII of Reuss, handcuffed and surrounded by police leaving his home in Frankfurt, Wednesday morning, October 7.

The elegant-looking 71-year-old was arrested on suspicion of being the mastermind and instigator of a coup attempt to bring him to power, along with around 20 other far-right conspiracy theorists, including a military leader.

In the Federal Germany of today, he was only the obscure heir to a distant history where the Reich did not yet exist, and where each piece of territory was controlled by a powerful monarch.

In his own principality, in this case, the vassals

"lived happily"

, the accused recently assured.

In Thuringia, where he owns a superb hunting lodge likely…

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Source: lefigaro

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