Bhumibol Adulyadej: The Richest Monarch in the World!

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The World's Richest Royals! Earlier this year, Nepal voted to eliminate its 240-year-old Hindu monarchy, and former king Gyanendra was forced to turn over his royal palace in Kathmandu, which has become a museum. So far the 15 rulers on our list have held on to their riches, despite controversy ranging from tax evasion to the dissolution of parliaments in Swaziland and Kuwait. As a group, the world's 15 richest royals have increased their total wealth to $131 billion, up from $95 billion last year. At the top of our list is Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, whose $35 billion estimated net worth is up sevenfold as a result of increased transparency of his Crown Property Holdings. He takes the top spot from the only other Asian monarch on the list, the Sultan of Brunei, worth $20 billion, one of only two rulers worth less than they were last year. The sultan, who inherited the riches of an unbroken 600-year-old Muslim dynasty, has had to cut back on his country's oil production because of depleting reserves. http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/20/worlds-richest-royals-biz-richroyals08-cz_ts_0820royalintro.html "And this too from wikipedia " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_wealthiest_royals More links here: http://jotman.blogspot.com/2008/02/worlds-most-expensive-royal-family.html And thai royal's expenditure. http://bangkokpundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/expenditure.html More site here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/en_afp/usthailandwealthpeopleroyals http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,408645,00.html http://www.nowpublic.com/world/thai-king-worlds-wealthiest-royal-forbes http://www.thaiphotoblogs.com/index.php?blog=5&title=thai-king-richest-in-the-world&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/22/thai-king-is-worlds-richest-royal/ http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24225300-401,00.html http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Thai-king-is-the-worlds-richest-monarch/352359/ http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayarticleNew.asp?section=newsmakers&xfile=data/newsmakers/2008/August/ Thank you to nat88008 for the above information and links.

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