Princess to be paid damages

A HAMBURG court has ordered a German publisher to pay Sweden’s Princess Madeleine €400,000 in damages for fabricating stories about her.

Sonnenverlag GmbH & Co KG was ordered to pay the damages by the Hamburg state court, which was ruling on an appeal against a lower court’s 2007 award of €300,000 in damages against the publishing house.

The publisher’s magazines carried false reports about the 27-year-old princess being engaged and pregnant, among other things, said her attorney Matthias Prinz.

Madeleine has been dating boyfriend Jonas Bergstrom since 2002, but the couple is neither engaged nor married, nor do they have any children.