Ernst August von Hannover sentenced to ten months probation

Guelph Prince Ernst August of Hanover has been sentenced to a ten-month suspended sentence by the Wels Regional Court in Austria. The court considered it proven that the 67-year-old, in a state of full intoxication, had, among other things, attacked police officers and massively threatened a caretaker couple working on his estate. Therefore, the judge also issued an order that Ernst August may not live at his previous residence in Almtal, Upper Austria, for at least the next three years. "Impossible", "unthinkable", was Ernst August's horrified reaction to this part of the sentence. He has lived there for 50 years, he said. The verdict is not legally binding. The defence and the public prosecutor's office did not make any statements at first.