By Peter April
Posted 3 hours ago, updated 2 hours ago
Prince Heinrich Reuss XIII. was arrested at his home in Frankfurt on December 7. BORIS ROESSLER/AFP
HISTORY – Henry XIII, whose family once partially ruled Thuringia, planned to reclaim a throne.
From our correspondent in Berlin
Gray hair tied back, beige velvet pants, a tweed jacket, face partially covered by a surgical mask: This is how the general public discovered Prince Henry XIII. October 7th. The elegant-looking 71-year-old was arrested on suspicion of masterminding and instigating an attempted coup to bring him to power along with around 20 other far-right conspiracy theorists, including a military leader.
In today’s West German Germany, he was just the obscure heir to a distant history when the empire did not yet exist and when every piece of land was controlled by a powerful monarch. In this case, the vassals lived “happily” in his own principality, the accused recently asserted. In Thuringia, where he probably owns a magnificent hunting lodge…
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