Sept. 7, 2026

Gossip: King Charles ‘Cuts William Out’ of $2 Billion Will? Christmas Feud With Harry Explodes?

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Extraordinary new rumors claim King Charles has cut Prince William out of his personal will and could leave an estimated two-billion-dollar fortune to Prince Harry instead, although the dramatic claim comes entirely from unnamed sources. Meanwhile, Heat reports William is threatening to skip Christmas at Sandringham if Harry and Meghan are invited, with the Prince of Wales allegedly saying he would rather stay away than pretend the family feud is over. Plus, Sarah Vine unloads on Harry’s return, new claims suggest Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie have moved away from the Sussexes, and another European royal wedding is on the way with Prince Georg of Liechtenstein’s engagement.

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Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I am your host,

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Mark Francis. Radar Online is making a very dramatic claim

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that King Charles has cut Prince William out of his

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personal will and intends to leave an estimated $ 2 billion

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to Prince Harry instead. An unnamed insider makes the central claim,

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he's cut William out of his will. William was stunned,

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so even though he will become king one day, he

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won't get the royal fortune he thought he was getting.

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That will now go to spare heir Harry, an estimated

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$ 2 billion. Radar also ties the supposed financial fallouts to

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tension involving Queen Camilla. The article claims William and Catherine

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recently failed to bow or curtsy to Camilla, which insiders

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interpreted as a deliberate snub. One unnamed source claims this

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led to an explosive showdown later behind the scenes between

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Kate and Camilla, and apparently Kate has called in the

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palace lawyers about the whole Will matter. Royal commentator Ian

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Pelham Turner tells Radar, I have heard there does not

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seem to be much family love between Camilla and William

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and Kate. Turner also argues that Charles would stand firmly

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behind Camilla, saying, Charles will stand wholeheartedly by his wife.

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Harry coming back is the first sign, I feel, of

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this public defiance in return. Prince William is reportedly threatening

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to stay away from Christmas at Sandringham if Prince Harry

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and Meghan are invited, according to a new report from

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Heat magazine. The unnamed source said there seems to be

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more and more of these lately. William is still very angry.

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The fact that his brother is back and getting all

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sorts of special attention has left him completely stunned. He

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feels like everyone suddenly has amnesia. He's vowing that he

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won't be taken in by Harry and Meghan's manipulations and

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says he plans to stay as far away from them

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as possible. He says he's tried forcing himself to make

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nice before, and it was unbearable. He always goes back

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to that terribly painful walkabout the four of them had

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to do together after the Queen's death. He hated every

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second of it, and was thunder-faced the entire time. And

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that was before Harry released his memoir, and everything deteriorated

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even further. The Christmas guest list is not going to

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be an easy task, because Charles wants the Sussexes included

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in family functions, and that's going to make things mighty

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uncomfortable for William. It's assumed that Harry and Meghan will

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be invited to all the Christmas functions, even though they're

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not working royals. They are still family, and the king

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wants them to have a place at the table. But

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William can't accept that. He feels like they lost that

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privilege with all their despicable behavior. And he's saying he

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will opt out of attending anything they are invited to,

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rather than have to put on some phony act. People

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are telling him that he needs to swallow his pride

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and give this a chance, but he's adamant that he'd

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rather spend Christmas alone than face those two across the table.

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There are still plenty of people hoping that William will

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be persuaded to turn the other cheek for his father's sake,

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but at the moment he isn't budging. If William actually

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followed through, it would be an extraordinary break with recent

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royal tradition. Christmas at Sandringham is one of the most

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visible family occasions of the royal calendar, complete with the

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Christmas morning walk to St Mary Magdalene Church. William, Catherine

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and their children are central figures in that gathering. There

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is also King Charles' health to consider. The king continues

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to undergo cancer treatment, making the suggestion that William would

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voluntarily miss Christmas with his father particularly striking. And that

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may be why even the source behind the story isn't

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convinced William will ultimately go through with it. There's a

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huge debate raging behind the scenes over what Christmas is

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actually going to look like. Sandringham is such an established

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tradition that it would be absolutely unprecedented for William to

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deliberately skip the festivities and particularly given everything Charles is

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going through with his health. A lot of people are

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in disbelief that he would really take it that far.

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The hope is that this is just William's way of

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trying to exert some control and potentially put a block

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on Harry and Meghan's invitation before anything is finalised. According

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to Heat, William's position has effectively become, it's me or Harry.

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The source says he swears he's deadly serious. As far

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as William is concerned, there's far more bad blood now,

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not less, so the idea that he should suddenly be

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able to sit around a Christmas table and pretend everything

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is fine is totally unrealistic. He says he's entitled to

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decide whether he wants to participate, and at this point,

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he's still adamant that he's not willing to sit there

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making nice with Harry when the relationship has become so damaged.

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He doesn't want a load of tension overshadowing Christmas. There

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would be alternatives. William and Catherine could spend Christmas with

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the Middleton family, something they have done previously. while Harry

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and Meghan could still decide to return to the US

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and spend the holiday with Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, which

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we'll talk about in this afternoon's episode. The source also

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insists William does not regard his position as an attempt

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to dictate whom Charles can invite. He insists this isn't

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the case of him issuing an ultimatum to his father.

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He says he's trying to keep his side of the

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street clean and quietly make a contingency plan rather than

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have some enormous showdown over who the king invites to Christmas.

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In his view, staying away is actually preferable to forcing

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everyone to sit through an incredibly uncomfortable family gathering. More

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of Pallison in just a moment. In the Daily Mail,

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Sarah Vine was critical of Harry, asking, Who can believe

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anything this man, or for that matter his wife, says?

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Where to begin? The secret wedding that never was, supposedly

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conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury himself in their back garden...

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Or Harry insisting that they had never accused the royal

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family of racism, even though they are literally captured on

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camera telling Oprah about it. Or about what some might

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call unconscious bias. Or Meghan saying, also in the Oprah interview,

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that the royals were planning not to give young Archie

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the title of prince, even though nothing of the sort

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had happened. At the time, he was the great-grandchild of

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the sovereign, and therefore not due to assume the title

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until after Elizabeth II's death. It was protocol, not personal.

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And let's not forget Harry claiming in his memoir spare

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that he was at Eton when he received a phone

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call from the courtier informing him of Queen Mother's death,

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when in reality he was skiing in the closters with

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his father. Just a few examples, so I suppose that

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really none of us should be too surprised that he

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has now changed his mind. But the sad truth remains.

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King Charles is not a well man. That older generation

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of royals is fading, and new faces are emerging. And

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as the tectonic plates of the monarchy shift and new

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royal topography emerges... Harry risks being left high and dry.

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Had he and the Duchess made a roaring success of

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their American escapade, this might not matter, but they did not.

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They've run out of road, and they need to turn back.

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We all hope and pray that the King will lead

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a long life like his parents, but sadly that may

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not come to pass. If, when that moment is upon us,

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Harry and his family were still in self-imposed exile across

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the pond, they might have found the way back into

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the royal fold was barred for good, or at the

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very least made much harder. From William's point of view,

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this is an obvious land grab, made all the more

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frustrating since the Prince and Princess of Wales have always

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behaved impeccably in fulfilling their royal duties, whereas Harry and

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Meghan have not. The idea that his little brother is

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just going to swan back in and steal his thunder, which,

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given the nature of the personalities involved, is inevitable, must

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be enraging. It really is Cain and Abel. What's worse,

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there is every chance that with the help of old

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allies and Harry's uncle, Charles Spencer... the Duke and Duchess

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will swiftly establish some sort of rival court in the Cotswolds.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may have another royal relationship

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to repair now that they are back in Britain with

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the new claim that Harry is no longer particularly close

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to his cousins, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. Royal commentator

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Natasha Cannell, who appears online as According to Taz, believes

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both York's sisters have now moved closer to Prince William

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and away from the Sussexes. They know which side of

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their bread is buttered. If they'd have continued to side

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with Harry and Meghan, they would have lost their lifeline,

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which is the royal family. They're going to want to

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keep that lifeline open to the royals. If it means

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cutting off Meghan, I don't think they had a problem

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with that, but Harry as well. Harry and Meghan are

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not so close to Beatrice and Eugenie anymore, and Harry

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did not see Eugenie over the summer in Portugal. They're

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going to have to make some serious social inroads and

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gatherings to get back in the fold. They didn't even

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see each other when they were in Portugal recently, probably

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because Eugenie was so heavily pregnant. But it's a real

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difference to how close they used to be. So close

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that they let Eugenie and Jack stay in Frogmore Cottage.

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Remember when they needed a place to stay? They're not

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that close anymore. There are new royal wedding plans in Europe.

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Prince George of Lichtenstein is engaged to Princess Maria Nives

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von der Leyen with the wedding scheduled for late summer

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next year in Germany. The engagement was announced by Lichtenstein's

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princely house. HSH, the hereditary prince, and HRH, the hereditary

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princess von und zu Lichtenstein, are delighted to announce the

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engagement of their son, Prince George, to Princess Maria Naives,

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Princess von der Leyen. George is 27 and the third

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child of the hereditary Prince Alois, heir to the Liechtenstein

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throne and hereditary Princess Sophie. He studied management at ESCP

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Business School and has worked with technology companies in Berlin

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and New York. Maria Naives, 25, is the youngest daughter

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of Prince Philip and Princess Elizabeth von der Leyen. She

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studied at the University of West London and currently works

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for a marketing agency in Vienna. The wedding is scheduled

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for late summer next year and will take place in Germany.

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And my apologies for any mispronunciations there. And there you

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