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.

Princess to be paid damages

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.

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