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From 2003, the senior member of the princely branch, Prince Ulrich's son Franz Ulrich sued the Czech Republic for return of the properties confiscated in 1945 under the Beneš decrees only because, he maintained, that the confiscation implicitly labeled his family as historical traitors against Czechoslovakia and as willful collaborators during the Nazi occupation.

The Kinsky family has denied such charges, arguing that Prince Franz Ulrich was just two years old at the time of his father's death and that he and his mother, Princess Kinsky ( née Baroness Mathilde von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen — whose family reputedly plotted against Hitler ) had left the occupied country and went into exile in Argentina shortly afterwards.

According to a 2005 judgement by the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, at least the expropriations enacted before the Communist coup d ' état ( 1948 ) are valid.

The prince died 2009 in Buenos Aires after a brief illness, being survived by his widow, née Countess Lena Hutten-Czapska.

He left as heir to his title, properties and pending claims against the Czech state, his son Karl (" Charlie "), and three grandchildren.