Bismarck's Great-Great-Grandson Found Dead

The great-great-grandson of Germany's Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismarck has been found dead in his central London apartment.

The great-great-grandson of Germany's Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismarck has been found dead in his central London apartment, police said on Wednesday.

They said the body of Gottfried Alexander Leopold Graf von Bismarck-Schoenhausen, 44, was found in his Chelsea flat on Monday.

"It is a case of sudden death. Next of kin have been informed. A post mortem is due to take place today," a spokesman for London's Metropolitan Police said.

Bismarck, a well-known figure on London's social scene, was no stranger to controversy.

In 1986, while studying at Oxford University, Olivia Channon, the 22-year-old daughter of a senior government minister, was found dead in his room of a heroin overdose.

And last year a man plunged to his death from Bismarck's penthouse flat after what the coroner described as a gay orgy.