As we all know, Saudi Arabia is the richest country in the Middle East.
In the previous article, we said that the founding monarch of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud, married a total of 38 wives (not counting lovers) and had 127 children (including 58 sons).
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In fact, for Saudi Arabia, the most enviable thing is to look at the story of Saudi princes showing off their wealth, they are really more than a "trench".
In March 2017, Saudi King Salman embarked on a continental tour with a huge entourage of about 1,500 people, including 25 princes, 10 ministers, 800 delegates, and 150 chefs.
The transportation required by these people took nearly 10 aircraft and more than 30 takeoffs and landings to transport the entire mission and accompanying materials to its destination.
Their luggage weighed 506 tons and included 2 gold-plated automatic gangways and 2 bulletproof Mercedes custom sedans for the king.
During the visit, the Saudi delegation even rented all Mercedes-Benz Maybachs from all car shops in Beijing, but still felt that the number of cars was insufficient.
King Salman's special plane is a custom-made special plane, the interior is all decorated with pure gold, and even the built-in gangway is also gilded, and when he slowly descends from the gangway, it is like descending from a golden cloud.
As for the other Saudi princes, their level of luxury is even more so.
They are the only people in the world who are qualified to say "so poor that they have only money left."
Although they bear the title of "prince", 99.9% of Saudi princes have no possibility of inheriting the throne, and there is generally nothing for them to worry about.
If there is, it is how to spend this lifetime money as soon as possible.
According to 2022 statistics, the cumulative wealth of the Saudi royal family has reached more than 1.5 trillion US dollars, most of which is used to support the Saudi royal family and thousands of princes.
What is the concept of $1.5 trillion, if you calculate the current global population of 7 billion, each person can get at least more than 200 dollars.
This is just the wealth accumulated by the Saudi royal family over the years, the key is that the royal family can also make money.
Saudi Aramco, owned by the Saudi royal family, is the world's largest oil producer and the world's sixth-largest oil refiner, with a market capitalization of more than trillion dollars and a net profit of $161.1 billion in 2022.
In addition, the Saudi royal family controls more than $2 trillion in investment funds overseas, earning back the money that feeds these princes in minutes.
According to Saudi royal regulations, each prince can receive as little as hundreds of thousands and as much as millions of dollars in pocket money per month.
In the case of "major expenses" such as marriage or building a house, the State pays a substantial additional subsidy.
For Saudi princes, money is just a boring string of numbers, and the only pastime is to spend it desperately.
Buying luxury cars, yachts? That's just the basic standard for royal families.
Princes are caring people who like to keep pets, which are just some "felines" such as lions and tigers.
By the way, there is also the raising of Arabian eagle falcons, which means that the prince "does not forget his original intention" and always engraves the history of his nomads in his heart. As for the price, it is not expensive, only tens of thousands of dollars.
A Saudi prince once traveled and chartered the entire plane so that each of his beloved 80 eagle falcons had a fixed seat.
In order to celebrate his graduation, another Saudi prince spent hundreds of millions of dollars to charter Disneyland in Paris, inviting more than 60 classmates to "hi" in it for three days and three nights.
The aesthetics of the Saudi prince are also very advanced, and when a Saudi prince traveled to London with his father, he felt that Buckingham Palace was very grand and begged his father to buy it, but was politely rejected by the British side as "not for sale".
The current Crown Prince Salman Jr., as the real "ruler" of the Saudi royal family in the future, holds a huge wealth of at least $3 trillion in the Saudi royal family, and hundreds of millions of dollars are smashed out without blinking.
He once spent $450 million to photograph Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting "The Savior", stared at it for a while, and then put it in his warehouse, where there are countless valuable works of art, all bought like vegetables.
In 2015, little Salman also quietly bought the "Château Louis XIV" near Paris, France, for more than 275 million euros, once breaking the record for the most expensive mansion in Europe.
It is estimated that the person who laughs the most should be the intermediary brother who bought the house for him.
Some people may be curious, Saudi princes are so spendthrift, and the royal family does not care?
The Saudi royal family's attitude is very clear: princes who do not have the opportunity to inherit the throne do not have to toss blindly, and spend money happily, anyway, we are not short of money.
In a word, the more the princes indulge in pleasure, the happier the royal family will be, and the people in power will be at ease.
To live, to spend money, this is their life.
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