Kaiser's descendant loses court battle to regain 13th-century castle

Court rules against Georg Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia's claim on Rheinfels Castle

A German court has ruled against a claim by the great-great-grandson of the country's last kaiser to the picturesque ruins of a 13th-century castle overlooking the Rhine valley.

Georg Friedrich Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, argued the ruins of Rheinfels Castle should be returned to the Hohenzollern family because the current owners had breached a century-old agreement, a claim rejected on Tuesday by a court in Koblenz.