**A German court has fined Princess Caroline of Monaco’s husband 200,000 euros (£181,200) for assaulting a hotel owner in Kenya in 2000.**Prince Ernst August of Hanover was found guilty at an earlier trial in 2004 of causing serious bodily harm and was fined 445,000 euros.
But he was granted a new trial after his wife’s testimony corroborated his account of the incident on Lamu Island.
Kenyan authorities did not arrest him but the case was pursued in Germany.
On Tuesday, a German judge in the town of Hildesheim fined the prince the equivalent of 40 days of his salary, which the court put at 5,000 euros daily.
In 2004, the court ruled that the prince had repeatedly hit hotel owner Josef Brunlehner, a German national, with a metal object in January 2000 after becoming angry at noise from a disco.
The prince and his wife had maintained he only gave the man two symbolic slaps. The prince had sought a complete acquittal but was convicted of causing actual bodily harm.
The 56-year-old prince is a distant relative of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and great-grandson of the last German emperor, Wilhelm II.
It was not the first time Ernst August had courted controversy.
In 1998 he was fined after breaking the nose of a TV cameraman.
And in 2000, he was photographed urinating outside the Turkish pavilion at the World’s Fair in Hanover.