Melania said:The King has palaces in every major city that are his. His family's palaces are in the city of Rabat, and just between Rabat and Skhirat (a small tourist town on the coast which is 30 miles south of the capital) the royal family has 8 palaces. Total there are 30-35 palaces, some of which are considered their "villas."
Warren said:As it is for every other Royal family. As Kerry has pointed out in her post below very few people, from any walk of life, divulge their net worth for public consumption.
i_s_s_a said:the sultan of brunei has thousands of luxury cars!
where do the royals get money from?
Monalisa said:I also have been said that the late king Hussein made himself owner of all lands in Jordan which don't have owners,technically,otherwise when it's like that,the state become the owner of those lands not the King or the State's leader.
Monalisa said:And the 250M$,is the coast of all the moroccan monarchy,not only the coast of palaces,it includes coasts of palaces,civil lists,salaries,royal foundations....
How can Harald have so much and the other 2 so less. I mean, a century ago Norway and Sweden were one. And when they split the norwegians wanted a danish prince. Even if you assume a rather big dowry for Maud, the difference is a bit too much, isn't it? How big could the dowry have been anyway back in the day, around 1900? Then you have Märtha who was swedish. If we go by Carl Gustav's alleged fortune, Märtha's dowry couldn't have been much. And after her we have Sonja, who probably didn't bring in millions. Are we to assume that the norwegian consultants are so much better than the swedish and danish ones? That doesn't add up, IMO.Warren said:This is what this list states. Make of it what you will, it's all guesswork. No-one knows for sure.
King Harald - 150 million
King Carl Gustav - 25 million
Queen Margrethe - 15 million
If he or the family breeds ponies, too, those aren't that many. There are lots of non- billionaire breeders with more ponies/ horses.JessRulz said:the Sultan of Brunei owns [...] 200 polo ponies
yes and technically, Canada's "Crown Lands" belong to Queen Elizabeth as well. I believe the same goes for some of the other commonwealth nations.Little_star said:Well technically speaking, Queen Elizabeth II owns all the land in the UK. It's not a situation unique to Jordan.
I agree. Im totally surprised by this figure as well!$250million is still an excessive and obscene amount of money for a monarch of a 3rd world country to be spending. Especailly when the family has a private wealth of billions.
That is a lot of polo ponies by anyone's standards. They are very lucky.Ms Griffin said:If he or the family breeds ponies, too, those aren't that many. There are lots of non- billionaire breeders with more ponies/ horses.
As mentioned in both Warren's and my post, it is all guesswork.Princejohnny25 said:The Scandinavian royals money confuses me. Im suprised Norway has the most.
Ms Griffin said:How can Harald have so much and the other 2 so less. I mean, a century ago Norway and Sweden were one. And when they split the norwegians wanted a danish prince. Even if you assume a rather big dowry for Maud, the difference is a bit too much, isn't it? How big could the dowry have been anyway back in the day, around 1900?
Well these are just figures of speculations, it think it's hard to find out exactly how much the Scandinavian monarchs and Royal Familes are worth (for example they might own unique historic collections or pieces which have no official set values). In Sweden for example, when the press lists the personal fortunes of the Royal Family, they often just use the official money fortune - and not much more than that. Sometimes they have tried to put a value to known assets such as real estate and cars, but there's so much more than that which we really don't have much insight too.Princejohnny25 said:The Scandinavian royals money confuses me. Im suprised Norway has the most.
In this matter it was about the private fortunes of the Scandinavian monarchs. When it comes to the funding allocations from the State however, I think the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian monarchies all have good deals with the States.Ms Griffin said:Are we to assume that the norwegian consultants are so much better than the swedish and danish ones? That doesn't add up, IMO.
Ms Griffin said:If he or the family breeds ponies, too, those aren't that many. There are lots of non- billionaire breeders with more ponies/ horses.
grim_lady said:I just picked up the latest issue of People and it talked about the wealth a few families and their worths:
Saudi Royals: $25.5 billion
Brunei royals: $13 Billion
Luxembourg royals: $4.3 Billion
Monaco royals: $2.6 Billion
British royals: $506 Million
Don't worry about the amounts, look at the relativities. Luxembourg way up there, again; still an unanswered question. When we think of Royal wealth we go for Brunei, Queen Beatrix, the Windsors etc; the Nassaus never enter the equation. We know more about secretive Liechtenstein than the Luxembourgers. How have they managed to fly under the radar for so long? Apart from these guesstimate lists, why is it never discussed, or even mentioned?From worldroots.com:
Grand Duke Henri - 5 billion Euro
Queen Elizabeth - 4 billion
Queen Beatrix - 400 million
King Harald - 150 million
King Carl Gustav - 25 million
King Albert - 20 million
Queen Margrethe - 15 million
King Juan Carlos - 10 million
~*~Humera~*~ said:I agree. Im totally surprised by this figure as well!
I'd never have guessed as much from the moroccan royals' lifestyle.
Perhaps because Luxembourg has very special law regulations concerning the press/media in the Grand Duchy. The media is also controlled by strong interest groups...Warren said:We know more about secretive Liechtenstein than the Luxembourgers. How have they managed to fly under the radar for so long? Apart from these guesstimate lists, why is it never discussed, or even mentioned?
Little_star said:$250million is still an excessive and obscene amount of money for a monarch of a 3rd world country to be spending. Especailly when the family has a private wealth of billions.
~*~Humera~*~ said:Im totally surprised by this figure as well!
I'd never have guessed as much from the moroccan royals' lifestyle.
Little_star said:There seems to be a bit of confusion about Queen Beatrix, I've heard people say that she's incredibly wealthy, although on the other hand I've heard that her personal wealth is only $30m. I'm not sure what to believe, there seems to be an air of mystery about her.