The European Royals Message Board: Re: Gustav Albrecht zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

There have been several court cases about Gustav qualifying to be his grandfather's heir. In the end the courts decided he was and that he was free to marry who he wanted. Once that ruling came out Gustav and Carina married and their son was born a year later. So im guessing they had been preparing for the moment. The statement of Gustav Albrecht's imminent birth said the couple used a surrogate not a donor. Considering Carina's age they may very well have retrieved and fertilised her eggs more than a decade ago.

I know how i would feel if any of my relatives would put me and my beloved through those court cases while trying to uphold racist requirements for my spouse in order to get their hands on an inheritance...
These specifications were made by his grandfather before Gustav was ever born and only counted for him, not for anyone else in the family.

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AFAIK, Pr.Gustav's grand father's will had some specifications regarding his grandson's fiancée as to she had to be arian and of noble families.

Carina was not noble.
I remember once asking if, f.i. Q.Margareth could not ennoble her to give her a chance to fit the SWB requirement and the answer was NO, she had to a noble by birth.

German courts tend not to mingle with this sort of questions but next-in-line to the succession might raise the question that the baby is not a "proper" SWB.

Does anybody know how are the relations between Gustav and his cousins ?

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As I have understood it - the very specific stipulations in the will of Prince Gustav's grandfather was ONLY for HIS heir.

Now that it has been established that the estate is Prince Gustav's - I would imagine he can leave the estate to whomever he wants - as long as he respects the normal inheritance laws in Germany.