An unsolved crime by christine.j
In the chapel at the castle there is a crypt in which one of the princes - Charles Philip- and his last wife are buried. He is the prince who had started building the castle and who had lived there with his grand-daughters. He fell in love with their governess, but since she didn't have enough blue-blooded ancestors, he couldn't get married to her in a real ceremony. So they had a "left hand marriage", a morganatic marriage. It gave her a better status than being a mistress, but any children she might have had wouldn't have been able to reign.As it turned out, she died shortly after the marriage and was buried in the crypt. When the prince died, he also was buried in the crypt. They were given some jewels in their coffins and to prevent a theft, a diadem was nailed onto the skull. - What a nasty job to do! -
Shortly after World War II someone broke into the crypt and took some jewels, but was disturbed. So he/she/they? couldn't pry the diadem loose from the skull. Did they just leave it there?
No, they took the whole skull!
Some of the jewels were found later, but to this day nothing is known about the diadem or the skull.
The crypt can only be visited in a guided tour, last Sundays of the month, after the service.