Prince Charles's chum wins divorce tourism fight after decide rules spouse came to England to go to the ballet and the opera, but didn't are living right here

Mr Justice Moor observed: “She came here for the opera, for the ballet, to discuss with Dumfries apartment and to see friends similar to lady Chichester, but she didn't live here.”

The decide became told that the Pierburgs had lived in Dusseldorf until the turn of the century however that Mr Pierburg, had been counseled to go away Germany and movement to Switzerland for "tax causes".

The couple then started to reside in a "sumptuous" chateau near Lausanne, Switzerland.

Mrs Pierburg pointed out she had loved a "love affair" with England for the reason that she travelled to work as an au pair in York in 1969 and observed London changed into an "crucial half" of her "standard lifestyles".

She added that spoke of supported the Royal Ballet and the Prince's believe - which turned into launched with the aid of The Prince of Wales 4 a long time ago.

Mrs Pierburg informed the judge that she had stopped residing in Germany basically twenty years in the past and mentioned: "there's nothing for me to move again to Germany for," however the judge concluded that her "emotional and physical" links to Germany have been "considerably more desirable than she made out".