06-07-2007 13:00
A man claiming to be the son of Britain's late Princess Margaret had his case thrown out of court yesterday (05.07.07).
Robert Brown - who claims he is the illegitimate child of Queen Elizabeth's younger sister Margaret and her lover Group Captain Peter Townsend - went to London's High Court to overturn a ban on public inspection of Margaret's will, who died in 2002 aged 71, and the Queen Mother's.
They are both sealed under a 1911 ruling which gives the British Royal Family exemption from the normal rules governing access to details of estates.
Brown, who was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1955, believes the two wills may contain references to him to prove his case and secure his inheritance rights to part of a reported £7.5 million fortune.
However, Family Division President Sir Mark Potter - the judge presiding over the case - threw out the appeal saying Brown's claim relied on "emotions and fantasies".
He said: "The plaintiff's claim should be struck out as vexatious and an abuse of process, made as it is soley for the purpose of seeking to establish an imaginary and baseless claim."
Brown, 52, responded: "I have a genuine belief that I may be the child of Princess Margaret and in due course I hope to be vindicated."
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