The newspaper sister often introduced princesses and princesses to everyone before, but think about the previous fairy tales, in addition to the princess of Mary Sue, there must be a prince charming, right?
The newspaper sister thought about it, and the European royal family could perfectly fit the tall, rich, handsome, spoiled wife, and single-minded man who might be the only one - Hans Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein.
Gao: Although the specific height has not been disclosed, as long as the group photo is the commanding height in the crowd. Contrast words, Hans. Adam is one head taller than Prince Charles, who is officially 177 tall.
Rich: Hans Adam II is now the richest monarch in Europe, with a private fortune of nearly $5 billion, much more than the Queen of England actually holds.
Handsome: Although Hans Adam II is not necessarily the most handsome prince in Europe, he is indeed very temperamental, from childhood to old age, he is a gentleman, and even more and more flavorful as he grows older.
Although he is now a 75-year-old grandfather, looking back on his life: the young crown prince, the young man who made a fortune, or a wife-chasing demon, it is really like a top-notch hegemonic article with too much sugar.
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A man who wants to save his family at a young age
Liechtenstein, a small European state sandwiched between Switzerland and Austria, is the richest monarchy in Europe (not one of them). As a permanently neutral country, Liechtenstein did not experience the fire of two world wars, but their royal family suffered a lot of blows.
At that time, the Prince of Liechtenstein was still the father of Hans Adam II, and the entire royal family became very poor due to the occupation of many of the family's former territories after the war, and the property was severely damaged. Liechtenstein was originally a small country that could not be found on the map, and apart from the beautiful scenery, there was no local industry that was good at.
At that time, the Liechtenstein royal family was very anxious, because the country was very small, the wealth of the royal family was closely related to the economic situation of the country, if the poor could not open the pot, it was likely to directly collapse the dynasty into a republic.
For this reason, the old prince and the old princess had to sell the precious calligraphy and paintings left by their ancestors, antique vases and other things for money. Once, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., bought Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting "Ginevra de' Benci" from his home for five million.
While thinking about what else the family could sell, the old prince tried to speed up the industrialization of Liechtenstein, and riveted enough to earn the money back.
Hans Adam II, who grew up in this environment, was entrusted by his father with the task of reviving the family from an early age. He was made crown prince at a young age and administrator of royal property in his youth.
Hans Adam II was an active and rebellious child who was obsessed with art, physics and archaeology, and had no interest in the disciplines of finance and economics that his father had arranged for him, nor did he like to conform to the rules.
However, Liechtenstein was a conservative Roman Catholic country, and when the royal family was young, they had to go to boarding church schools with rules comparable to military schools, and the young tyrants also caused chaos because they violated the school rules.
After the war, Catholic doctrine was also slowly modernized, but there were still many stereotypes in the textbooks, and Xiao Ba was always very upset: why did I have to learn these things, and I had to read and recite them???
So in the very conservative school, in front of the whole class and the teacher, he stood up, tore the book, and then opened the window and threw the piece of paper out of the window.
Hans Adam later recalled that the people in the class were terrified, and the heir to the throne who was supposed to guard the doctrine tore up the religious textbook, which was simply an act of rebellion! The school was so angry that it was dizzy, and the severity of the incident even alarmed the government departments. The little bully who did his own thing was eventually taken home by his parents and punished for copying books.
"It was a beautiful summer, I was locked on the third floor, I looked out the window and saw that there was a drain pipe", and then he just jumped out of the window and climbed out of the pipe and played happily all day.
Because he felt from beginning to end that he was not wrong, the old teachings should not be learned. A few years later, new textbooks were released, and many of the teachings that he considered old were abolished. He has always been a forward-thinking man, not only in terms of thinking, but also in terms of making money.
When he was in high school, his father asked him what he wanted to study. He certainly said he liked physics and archaeology best, but sure enough, he got a disappointed answer. My father told him that our family could not afford to pay for your archaeology, you still had to revive the family, you had to study economics and law - because these were the two majors most needed to rebuild the family.
Although Xiao Ba is not happy, he actually realized the property management problems in the family very early. When he was a child, he knew that his parents were always selling paintings or selling land for money, and as a tyrant who loved art, he felt very sorry, and sooner or later there would be a big problem. Therefore, in order to make more money to revive the family and no longer have to live a life of selling paintings, Bazong went to St. Gallen to study law and economics.
Franz Joseph II
His father, Franz Josef II, was a conservative old man who spent 51 years turning this small agricultural country into a wealthy industrial country. But Hans Adam knew that this was not enough, and he decisively pinpointed the bright prospects for the development of the financial industry, but the old prince was still in power. So he said to his father:
"Either give me the bank's permission now, or I'll go to work for IBM, where I'm an intern, I'm a kid now, I have to raise a family, I don't have time to spend."
In addition to forcing the palace's own father, this overlord also forced the palace to pass the entire Liechtenstein people... In fact, Hans Adam II was the most powerful monarch in Europe besides the Pope of the Vatican. If Queen Elizabeth was just a mascot, Hans Adam was more like the country's majority shareholder.
In 2003, the government launched a national referendum to let people decide whether to expand the power of the royal family. The overlord told the people, you will not let me expand my power, I will go back to Austria to live, bye-bye! The words frightened the people and they voted for the expansion of power.
Because historically, the Liechtenstein royal family has long lived in the palaces of other territories such as Austria, and Hans Adam was the first monarch to live in the homeland. As mentioned earlier, the economic impetus of the small royal family is enormous, and if Hans Adam moves out of Liechtenstein, the economy will be hit hard.
Thus, he became one of the few european constitutional monarchies who could dissolve the Parliament and have the supreme power to finally pass the state's personnel and bills.
A financial prodigy, Hans Adam was in charge of the family's $2 billion fortune at the age of 27. As soon as he ascended the throne, he began to work to bring this small country to the United Nations, making Liechtenstein the 160th and smallest member of the United Nations in 1990.
He believed that lower tax rates and the development of the financial industry were suitable for the development of small countries, so decades later, Liechtenstein became the most famous tax haven in Europe. Companies from all over the world are registered here, and billionaires keep their money in the land. Liechtenstein is now very rich, and the day when Bazong can safely engage in art collection and sell paintings will never come again.
What kind of woman will such a hardcore bully always fall in love with? This famous sister-brother relationship surprised all of Europe at the time.
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The domineering president fell in love with me?
Hans Adam's love story is nothing special, nothing more than love at first sight, crazy wife chasing, lifelong waiting for the dog food overlord novel reappears.
In the summer of 1961, Mary visited Liechtenstein to visit her aunt, who was married to a prince of Liechtenstein. The young Mary was born into one of bohemian and most prominent families, the Kinski family.
Until the age of 5, Mary's life was very happy, but during World War II, their family property was extensively dispossessed, and the family carried almost nothing of value and was sent to a concentration camp in the Czech Republic.
The family escaped the camp with the help of an officer. He hid in hiding for a long time, and although the money was slowly earned back, he was still too poor to pay Mary's college tuition. After only attending junior college, he stayed in Germany to work as a designer.
While hanging out with her friends that year, she met Hans Adam's mother, who warmly invited the girls to the house, where several of the children had not had friends of the same age for a long time. Mary was reluctant at the time, knowing that several of liechtenstein's princes were still hairy boys, had nothing to talk about, and were strangely embarrassed.
But Hans Adam didn't think so. On that day, 15-year-old Hans Adam fell in love with this girl whose family was ordinary compared to his own. He said to himself, "This is my future wife." ”
But there was a fatal problem, Mary was 20 years old, he was only 15 years old.
Mary only thought he was a wise and kind brother. His parents felt that early love was delaying his studies, and Mary's father thought he was an unreliable frivolous child.
And one of them went to school in Switzerland and the other lived in Germany, and there was no chance to get along.
But Hans Adam is a man known for his stubbornness and strength, chasing after those he likes and giving up on him. So he agreed to his parents' request to complete his studies, wrote letters to Mary all day, and tried to squeeze out the men who were in contact with Mary at that time. A few years later, Mary was finally impressed by the domineering humor and wisdom and agreed to associate with him.
This has become a big news in the royal family, and many people think that the bully is just a temporary crush on Mary, because he can find a more beautiful girl, or a richer girl in the family. But Adam Hans didn't care about the gossip, he was more concerned with how to impress Mary's troubled father.
Due to Mary's family's turbulent past, the father was afraid that his daughter would suffer with the wrong person, and he felt that it was not a good person to go to his daughter's bully at a young age. For this reason, the boss specially started from Mary's relatives who had softer ears, asked her brother to do ideological work, and spent one night to explain Mary's brother.
After constantly building a good relationship with his brother-in-law, he finally won the trust of the old man. It was already 1967, and the prince had been chasing it for almost 6 years. But the prince's parents still think that he is too young, so they deliberately want to spend until he is 24 years old and then have a wedding, the prince can be annoyed to death, who knows what will happen in 2 years?
Every overlord needs a god-assisted character, and this character is the bitter Prince Charles on the other side of the ocean. At that time, Charles and Anne, two brothers and sisters, came to Liechtenstein to find a skier. It was supposed to be a private trip, but it was leaked to the British tabloid by an informant at Buckingham Palace.
In terms of heat, the British royal family is definitely the first in Europe, and soon a group of paparazzi began to spread rumors: shock! The Crown Prince of Liechtenstein wants to marry Princess Anne?!
Charles and Anne
In order to clarify that there was no marriage with the British royal family, the parents had to advance the wedding to the summer of 1967, and the 22-year-old Bully married early and finally became a family member with Mary.
And he did spend a lifetime proving that he was not an unreliable little hairy child. After getting married, he was responsible for changing diapers and making milk powder, and he and his wife single-handedly pulled up 4 children, which is one of the few parents in the royal family who are so close to their children.
Every year on Mary's birthday, Hans Adam would hold an event for his wife, and it didn't matter if his birthday was. Now that they are married to each other, they have never had a scandal. Now the old husband and wife in their 70s often go to pizza together or take a walk in the city center.
In this quiet, small country without paparazzi intrusion, they can maximize the rich and peaceful happy life found in the novel. Maybe one day you'll go to a castle in Liechtenstein, where you might see a pair of old men running in sneakers.
That may well have been the richest and most powerful monarch in Europe and the lover of his life.