Queen Elizabeth perhaps gets a little bit of gain at the thought of not being the richest royal in the world (and not even in Europe), although she can rejoice in being certainly the most famous. On the other hand, his miserable ones 500 million euros scarce in assets is well above the 10th place of the ranking of the richest royals in the world reported by Business Insider. His legendary thrift won’t help him – keeps heaters to a minimum and turns them off in the empty rooms of the Palace, checks that the lights are not turned on more than they should, order frugal lunches and it is one champion in the display of patched clothes and soled shoes – because the goal seems really far away.
Top of the chart compiled by Business Insider the Thai king Maha Vajiralongkorn stands out, crowned in 2016 in Bangkok and also known as Rama X. The 69 year old boasts a wealth of around 26.7 billion euros and has full control of the Crown Property Agency, which manages the properties of the Royal House. just to give an example among its precious, to say, there is the Golden Jubilee, jewel with the largest diamond in the world of 547.67 carats. Faced with this splendor, the most precious piece of Elizabeth’s crown, the Cullinan II diamond, by “soli” 317,40 carats, pales.
In second place, in the ranking of the richest sovereigns in the world is the Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, 73 years old, sultan since 1967, with an estimated wealth of 17.8 billion euros deriving from the oil and gas industry. Absolutist and homophobic (in 2019 he had decreed the death penalty for homosexuals, only to rethink after international pressure), lives in the largest palace in the world (1,788 rooms and 200 thousand square meters of park) e his great passion are Rolls-Royces (rumored to own more than 600) and planes, which he is capable of flying (he owns seven).
King Salman follows the Sultan of Brunei, ruler of Saudi Arabia since 2015. The 83-year-old – who has a wealth of more than 16 billion euros deriving from Arab oil fields – is known for his not exactly sober style: in 2017, for example, he landed on a visit to I was in Indonesia with a 459-ton “baggage”, 620 between courtiers and an escort, plus 800 delegates including 10 ministers and 25 princes.
The fourth richest ruler in the world is Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Emir of Abu Dhabi. Thanks to petrodollars, he enjoys a fortune of 13.3 billion euros. It follows Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Emir of Dubai, with a fortune of 3.5 billion euros. Emir of dubai – vice president and prime minister of the UAE – has invested 10 billion dollars to create the “Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation”, an institution that works to help future generations. It has five wives and one of them, Haya Bint al-Hussein, has been in London for months, after being escaped from her spouse together with two children 11 and 7 years old.
In the ranking the first European is in sixth place, is the Granduca Henri, 64, who came to the throne of Luxembourg in 2000, has a fortune of around 3.5 billion euros. Seventh position with 3.2 billion euros for the prince John Adam II, Head of State of Liechtenstein. The 74-year-old receives a salary of 225,000 euros every year, but his fortune comes mainly from investments in the private bank, the LGT group, and in the Prince of Liechtenstein Foundation. The prince also has a large art collection, partially exhibited in some museums in Vaduz and Vienna.
Eighth position for Mohammed VI, 55, sovereign of Morocco who will celebrate 20 years of reign on 30 July, a much loved monarch, flattered and even emulated by his subjects, who try in every way to copy his style. Mohammed VI’s wealth, equal to 1.87 billion euros, largely derives from the ownership of the “Morocco National Investment Company”, a private holding that invests in other African countries and operates in the banking, telecommunications and renewable energy sectors . Known for being monogamous and because he revealed to the world the face of his wife, the computer engineer Salma Bennani, plebeian of Fez.
Ninth position for Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Emiro del Qatar dal 2013, the year his father abdicated from office. The 39-year-old’s net worth is around one billion euros and comes mainly from the Qatar Investment Authority, which manages the country’s oil and gas reserves. The emir, owner of Paris Saint Germain among other things, comes often spotted in Sardinia aboard his 124-meter yacht “Katara” in the company of three wives and eight children.
The top ten is closed by Prince Albert II of Monaco, son of Rainier III and Grace Kelly. The sovereign boasts a heritage worth just under a billion euros and which includes a quarter of the Principality’s territory, as well as a collection of vintage cars, a resort in Monte Carlo, a collection of expensive stamps and the house of his mother, Grace Kelly in Philadelphia that the 60-year-old bought in 2016 for an estimated value of 670,000 euros.
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