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This sounds like just about the most blatant piece of forum shopping one can imagine. There's a strong suggestion elsewhere in the media that the English proceedings were started solely so as to find an English court that would take the line it should ignore a German ante-nuptial contract that had governed the marriage for over 30 years.

One wonders if the wife's petition started off by describing her as "of Zurich in the County of Middlesex".