Prince Gustav Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg married this Saturday, June 4, his longtime girlfriend Karina Axelsson.
The couple walked down the aisle at a religious ceremony celebrated in Germany after years of fighting to make sure the prince could marry the love of his life without losing his royal title.
Karina is a commoner, American, Catholic, and of humble origins. Today she is doing well as a writer, but she worked as a model for many years. This was the woman with whom Gustav fell in love and with whom he could not marry because of the “rule” left in his will by his grandfather.
Gustav Albrecht was a high-ranking general in the German army with close ties to Nazism who, before his death, decided to write in his will that none of his heirs could marry a woman who was not a noblewoman, an Aryan and a Protestant.otherwise they will lose their title and the right to live in the family castle Berleburg Palace.
Without giving up the fight for love, the son of Princess Benedita of Denmark and the nephew of Queen Margaret II managed in 2020 to have his grandfather’s will canceled by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
