There’s also the fact that most royals tend to have a lot of money.
While royal families typically live pretty luxurious lives, not all royals are created equal.
Some members of royal families live fairly modest lives and even hold down jobs.
Royals get their money from a lot of sources.
Some inherit their wealth, while other royals have built up their fortunes through good investments.
Their jaw-dropping fortunes are enough to make any commoner envious.
These are some of the wealthiest royals in the world.
In terms of royal wealth, however, it’s actually a comparatively small sum.
King Harald seems content with his comparatively modest wealth, though.
His 1968 wedding to Sonja Haraldsen proved that he never let being royal go to his head.
King Olav gave in, and the rest is history.
According toCelebrity Net Worth, part of his estimated $30 million fortune comes from his late mother.
She has used part of her fortune in quite an unusual way.
In 2003, she and her husband, Prince Henrik, commissioned a tomb fit for a queen.
The tomb was crafted by Bjrn Nrgaard, a professor and sculptor.
According toThe Local, the tomb cost a whopping $5 million and took 15 years to complete.
When he passed away in February 2018, he had his ashes scattered.
News, in his younger years, he had a string of girlfriends and a reputation as a playboy.
In the 1980s, he was criticized for slamming the Norweigian prime minister over the cruelty of seal hunting.
The king reportedly didn’t feel accepted by the people of Sweden until he was middle-aged.
According toCelebrity Net Worth, Queen Beatrix has an estimated net worth of $200 million.
Queen Beatrix isn’t the only fabulously wealthy Dutch royal.
According toTatler, her son, King Willem-Alexander, must also be in pretty good financial shape.
He reportedly gets paid a salary of $1,124,396 each year.
The heir to the British throne is reportedly worth an estimated $100 million, according toCelebrity Net Worth.
Prince Charles also draws an income from an annual sovereign grant.
Prince Charles may be fabulously wealthy, but he’s far from greedy.
That’s not to say that she isn’t rich, though.
According toBBC News, she has been on the throne since 1952.
Not only is the royal prosperous, but he is also from quite a prosperous nation.
He inherited the throne from his father, Prince Rainier, who passed away in 2005.
“The house was very beautiful and very special to our family,” he told the magazine.
The sheikh is the ruler of Qatar.
The move was an unexpected one, as emirs of the gulf states typically rule until their deaths.
According toGlobal Finance, Sheikh Tamim isn’t alone in his wealth in Qatar.
While most citizens of the nation don’t match his net worth, the country is still quite prosperous.
The wealthy royal has made a point of discouraging excessive spending.
In 2016, he gave a speech urging against a “culture of consumption” (viaArabian Business).
The royal has been criticized for his expenditures.
According toBritannica, Prince Hans-Adam II has been the nation’s ruling monarch since 1989.
The sheikh is both the ruler of Dubai and the Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates.
In 2019,CNNreported that the sheikh spent upwards of $4 million on a young racehorse.
According toSuperyachts.com, he also owns the second largest private yacht in the world, called Dubai.
The crown prince flaunts his luxurious life onInstagram, where he has over 12 million followers.
According to theIndependent, the prince is a jet-setter who, naturally, flies first class.
Sheikh Khalifa is also one of the most powerful men in the world.
In 2018,Forbesranked him 43rd on their list of most powerful people.
Aside from his personal fortune, Sheikh Khalifa also controls Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund.
The monarch also boasts 97.8 billion barrels of oil reserves.
In 2019, he was elected to a fourth five-year term, as reported byGulf News.
As reported byInsider, he also has a reputation for being a particularly extravagant ruler.
The sultan took the throne in 1967, following the abdication of his father.
This jaw-dropping sum easily makes King Maha Vajiralongkorn one of the richest royals in the world.
Through the Crown Property Bureau, he also claims 16,210 acres of land and 40,000 rental contracts in Thailand.
The Golden Jubilee Diamond, as it is known, is a 546.67-carat diamond.
The diamond is worth upwards of $12 million!
Approximately $9 billion of the royal’s wealth is in stocks.
