What a heart-warming fairy story is the romance between the lovely Vestra and the handsome prince of a wealthy royal family.

Like something straight out of Hans Andersen, the affair has been perhaps the most tear-jerking private banking has ever known.

Let’s begin our torrid tale. The virginal but very comely Vestra caught the eye of Prince Max of Liechtenstein, head of a fabulously wealthy royal family some five years back.

Soon, the couple were deeply in love. No longer did Vestra have to hide away behind impenetrable thickets of briars, e.g. other nasty wealth rivals. She no longer had to be at the consta...