Feb 11, 2009, 10:55 GMT
Austria's Princess Sophie von Hohenberg is fighting for the deeds to a castle in the Czech Republic.
The princess - who is the great-granddaughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination in 1914 triggered World War One - is continuing a legal battle for his one-time castle outside Prague.
Her latest application for the return of Konopiste castle was rejected by a Czech court on Tuesday (10.02.09).
The court stated: "The constitutional court has ruled several times that it is impossible to widen the interpretation of the law of restitution that applies to property seized when Communist rule began in February 1948."
Jaroslav Broz, lawyer for the 49-year-old royal, said Sophie would appeal the ruling in order to win back the white French-style castle, which was seized in 1921 by the newly-formed Czech Republic.
Konopiste - which is now open to the public for part of the year - was Franz Ferdinand's home when he travelled to Sarajevo in June 1914, where he was shot and killed by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, sparking a chain of events that ignited the Great War.
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