Ernest of Hanover is, perhaps, one of the most controversial figures of European royalty. The couple from Carolina de Monaco has given scandalous headlines for years to the media specialized in the world of the heart. A custom that occurs regularly in Spain, where she resides, such as when, for example, she was expelled from the Palacio de los Duques Gran Meliá hotel in Madrid in 2022.
His latest controversy occurred this week, also in the Spanish capital. Ernesto was walking with his partner, Claudia Stilianopoulos, after eating in a restaurant in the city center, before meeting a group of journalists from Europa Press. Reporters have tried to ask several questions and congratulate him on his upcoming birthday, but have been met with a negative reaction and an expletive shout at full volume: “Fuck off!”
The reaction has been surprising from the media, but Ernest’s history of physical altercations supports what happened this Wednesday morning. As we previously reported, in 2022 he was expelled from a hotel after having a fight with one of the employees, a situation similar to what occurred in August at the Iivissa airport, when he confronted a worker there in a wheelchair. .
His financial history does not favor him either, and in this regard Carolina of Monaco’s husband has had many problems during the most recent years of his life. Despite being a respected aristocrat in the 90s, his excess lifestyle began to harm him. That detail, added to his multiple properties, worsened from the year 2000, with the crown prince also coming into play.
Between 2004 and 2007, Ernesto transferred multiple family properties and cultural assets in Germany to his son, worth 3 million euros. To these were added another 44 million that he would end up amassing after auctioning several historical treasures under his ownership, already in 2005. Ernest Augustus also symbolically sold the Marienburg palace in 2018, in order to alleviate the family economy. .
This gesture was considered a betrayal by Ernesto Sr., who would end up taking his son to court and drying up his coffers in the process. The lawsuit against his son was carried out with the help of several economic partners, with whom he ended up falling out and, to make matters worse, getting into debt. The straw that broke the camel’s back is that the justice system also failed to agree with him in his high-profile family confrontation.
