The prince of Hanover, the sometimes rowdy husband of Monaco’s Princess Caroline, is in a “serious” condition in a hospital with an acute pancreas problem, his office at Monaco’s royal palace says.

PRINCESS Caroline of Monaco’s controversial third husband, a German prince, is reported to be in a coma in the intensive care unit of a hospital in the principality.

Prince Ernst August of Hanover, a cousin of the Queen of England, was fined €443,200 today for attacking a hotel owner in Kenya in a drunken rage.

Princess Caroline of Monaco's husband has been sentenced to eight months' probation and fined for two assaults.