HILDESHEIM, Germany - Prince Ernst August of Hannover, husband of Caroline of Monaco, was retried today on charges he assaulted a hotel owner in Kenya in a drunken rage.
The 55-year-old - a distant relative of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and great-grandson of the last German emperor, Wilhelm II - was convicted in 2004 of causing serious bodily harm in the incident and fined euro445,000.
The court ruled he repeatedly hit Josef Brunlehner, owner of a hotel on Lamu Island, with a metal object in January 2000 after becoming irritated at the noise from a disco.
During the trial,...
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