Jimu news reporter Hu Li
When many people hear the word "royal family," they immediately think of power, luxurious palaces, and rich material life. The British royal family is one of the most talked about royal families in the world, but the wealth of the Queen of England is less than the top ten in the ranking. The Spanish royal family announced that the king's assets were equivalent to more than 10 million yuan... In recent days, Jimu News has synthesized the reports of major media around the world to take you to see the global royal asset ranking.
The Thai royal family is the richest
The Thai royal family began to continue in 1782, and after 1932, Thailand became a constitutional monarchy, and successive kings have been only the symbolic head of state.
According to a ranking data published by the business magazine CEOWORLD, the current king of thailand, Maha Vajiralongkorn, topped the global royal asset ranking with about US$43 billion (about 287.3 billion yuan) in assets. His assets are 1.5 times the assets of second-place Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah and 2.4 times the assets of third-placed Saudi Arabian king.
The current king of the Thai royal family. Source: CEOWORLD
In addition, according to Time magazine, the current king of Thailand, Maha, also owns a 545-carat diamond called "Golden Majesty", which is larger than the "African Star" on the Queen's Scepter.
The Queen of England is not in the top 10
According to the US media "Business Insider", queen Elizabeth II's assets are 520 million US dollars (about 3.47 billion yuan), ranking 11th in the world's royal assets, and Prince Charles is close behind with 400 million US dollars in assets.
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Source: Business Insider
Meanwhile, Prince Charles's sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, both worth around $40 million, tied for third in British royal assets. Prince William's wife, Princess Kate, has assets of about $10 million.
The British royal family has many financial sources, and the British government will support the monarch and some royal families economically through "sovereign grants" every year to meet the monarch's official expenditure. Of course, the royal family will also acquire assets through private investment.
Some royal assets can also be achieved by ordinary people
According to the Guardian, in April this year, the Spanish royal palace announced for the first time the personal wealth of King Felipe VI, totaling 2.6 million euros (about 18.3 million yuan).
Felipe VI. Source: The Guardian
After this amount was made public, many netizens expressed surprise, thinking that how the assets of a "king" could only be more than 10 million yuan, and this wealth could also be owned by many ordinary people through their own efforts.
In fact, Felipe VI could have had more.
The old King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, officially abdicated on 19 June 2014 and passed on to his son Felipe VI, who renounced his father's personal inheritance in March 2020. In July of the same year, Juan Carlos I was found to have withdrawn huge amounts of cash from overseas bank accounts, suspected of tax evasion of huge assets and unknown origin of property.
In order to restore the prestige of the Spanish royal family, Felipe VI ordered the audit of the royal accounts and established a "code of conduct" for the members of the royal family.
The Spanish Royal Palace now issued a statement saying that most of Felipe VI's property was 2.3 million euros, which was stored in a check or bank savings account, and the rest of the property consisted of art, antiques and jewelry, totaling 2.6 million euros.
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