Warren
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Marriage Rules
The German Courts have already upheld the legality of Family Laws when Prince Karl-Emich of Leiningen unsuccessfully challenged the Family Statutes in regard to his "unequal" marriage to Gabriele Thyssen [who later married the Aga Khan IV, and since divorced].
A similar situation occurred when Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia unsuccessfully challenged in court the Hohenzollern Family Laws regarding unequal marriages.
These Family Laws cannot prevent a legal marriage, they just state the conditions under which a person remains a Member of the House and who can succeed to the Headship of the House.
Perhaps Prince Richard doesn't wish to change the Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg Family Laws.
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But surely as his father Richard is the 6th Prince and Head of the Princely House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, he can determine the Family Laws regarding marriages?michelleq said:Who he marries is stipulated in his grandfather's will. They must be of Nobility, Aryan Line, and something else I can't think of at the moment. Supposedly, he is appealing to the German Courts.
The German Courts have already upheld the legality of Family Laws when Prince Karl-Emich of Leiningen unsuccessfully challenged the Family Statutes in regard to his "unequal" marriage to Gabriele Thyssen [who later married the Aga Khan IV, and since divorced].
A similar situation occurred when Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia unsuccessfully challenged in court the Hohenzollern Family Laws regarding unequal marriages.
These Family Laws cannot prevent a legal marriage, they just state the conditions under which a person remains a Member of the House and who can succeed to the Headship of the House.
Perhaps Prince Richard doesn't wish to change the Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg Family Laws.
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