ROB CAMERON

BBC Prague Correspondent

Photo: Facebook/Wallachian Kingdom

Czech court to rule on fairy-tale kingdom

BBC News

6 October 2008

A court in the Czech city of Olomouc is to deliver its verdict in one of the oddest legal disputes in the country’s history. A comedian is suing his former business partner over the intellectual rights to the fictitious Wallachian Kingdom. The court must now decide whether the comedian is the true “king” of the fairy-tale realm … or merely an imposter.