Prince of the XXI Century: Rich and Handsome

Prince of Jordan

Prince of Jordan Al Hussein Bin Abdullah

21year-old Crown Prince of Jordan, the eldest son of King Abdullah II Hussein bin al-Abdullah actively participates in the affairs of his father, despite his youth and studies at the University of Georgetown in Washington. He accompanies the parent on his travels around the country and abroad, takes part in military and official events, several times served as regent and served as monarch during the king's departures abroad.























Prince of Dubai

Prince of Dubai Hamdan ibn Mohammed Al Maktoum

Hamdan received an excellent education and is very well prepared for the future role of the head of state. First he graduated from the Dubai government school, then the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, where the heirs of the British throne Harry and William studied and where the Arab sheiks traditionally give their children, followed by the London School of Economics. Today, Hamdan has several key posts at once: he heads an investment fund, a university named after him, the Young Entrepreneurs Support League, the Sports Committee and the Dubai Autism Research Center. His condition, according to Forbes magazine, in 2011 was $ 18 billion.

The Prince of Brunei

Prince of Brunei Al-Muhtadi Bill Bolkiah

Crown Prince of Brunei Al-Mukhtadi Bill Bolkiah - from the birth of the darling of fate. He was lucky to be born the first in a large family of one of the richest people in the world, where the absolute monarchy is still preserved. He has 11 brothers and sisters, born from the four marriages of the father of Sultan Bolkiah. His parents are a cousin and brother. And if with the second and third wives the monarch managed to get divorced, depriving them of palace advantages, then the first and the main spouse-relative Saleh is always with him.

 In 2004, the whole world flew photos from the luxurious wedding of the prince with a 17-year-old commoner named Sarah. Princes, kings and sultans of neighboring states came to the celebration.

Prince at the time of the wedding was 30 years old. Since then, three children have been born to the family. Crown Prince Brunei owns a collection of sports cars from around the world, is fond of swimming, football and billiards. His father is soon to be 70 years old, and the day is near when Al-Mukhtadi will become a sultan and move to the place of Istana Nurul Iman , built from pure gold and marble, in which there are 1,778 rooms and 200,000 m² - and this, by the way, is a world record.

Prince of Wales

Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton

There are a lot of princes in Europe. The most popular are the British: the 67-year-old Prince Charles, who still does not give in to the throne, is Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-ruling monarch in the history of Britain, and his sons from marriage to Princess Diana: 33-year-old William and 31-year-old Harry.

Today he is captain of the Royal Air Force and a pilot of a rescue helicopter. In December 2011, William participated in the operation to save Russian sailors from the sinking ship Swanland. In 2010, the prince married Kate Middleton, with whom he studied in Scotland, - their wedding entered the Guinness Book of Records for "the largest number of views of the event live". Since then, the couple had a son, the Crown Prince George of Cambridge, and the daughter of Charlotte.

According to the British press, he destroyed one of the leaders of the Taliban movement.Today Prince Harry is the most enviable fiance in all of Europe.

Prince Nassau and the Prince of Parma

Prince Nassau Guillaume and his wife Stefania de Lannoy

The Grand Duke of Luxembourg Henri has three sons and two daughters. The eldest of them, Guillaume, 34, is stately and handsome. He is the heir of Luxembourg and wears magnificent titles: Crown Grand Duke, Prince Nassau and Prince of Parma. In honor of the 25th anniversary, the portrait of his son and father was printed on a commemorative coin € 2. The future duke speaks five languages ​​fluently: his native Luxembourgish, and also in French, English, Spanish and German. Where he had not studied: in Luxembourg, Switzerland, Britain and France, he graduated, like many princes, the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst and with honors - the Faculty of Languages, Philology and Humanities at the University of Angers, majoring in political science. For ten years of service in the Armed Forces of Luxembourg managed to rise to lieutenant-colonel.

The Crown Prince has headed the Economic Development Council for 15 years, visited Russia, the United States, Canada, South Korea and other countries, has been a member of the State Council for ten years. But its main task now is to give the father and the whole of Luxembourg an heir: the newlyweds still do not have children.

Prince of Liechtenstein

Prince of Liechtenstein Alois Philip Maria

In the dwarf European state, Liechtenstein still maintains a constitutional monarchy. Although in power is Prince Hans-Adam II, since 2004, his elder son, the 47-year-old Crown Prince Alois Philip Maria, is also in charge of state affairs. He is also Earl of Rietberg.

The Prince has an exemplary family: three sons and a daughter, as well as a beautiful wife Sofia from an aristocratic family - a descendant of the last king of Bavaria, Louis III. In politics, Alois also speaks for many children: when the question arose about the legalization of abortions, the prince threatened to veto, and the activists lost. Today abortion in Liechtenstein is still banned and the population is only growing - in many respects thanks to the prince in the dwarf state is home to almost 37,000 people.

Every August 15, Alois and his family arrange an open day in the family castle and treat all guests with drinks and delicacies.

Prince of Norway

Prince of Norway, 42-year-old Haakon, has a sister Marta Louise, who is two years older than him. Hokon was lucky to be born before the law on the superiority of men in the succession of the crown was abolished.

Håkon is married. In 2001, the tabloids discussed the scandalous marriage of Haakon for a long time: he married a single mother, Mette-Marit, who worked as a waitress when she met and raised a four-year-old son of Marius (the boy's father was imprisoned for possession of drugs).

Prince of Denmark

Prince of Denmark Frederick

About the 47-year-old Danish Prince Frederick it would be possible to shoot a modern version of the fairy tale "Cinderella". He took as his wife a simple teacher from Australia, whom he met in 2000 in a pub in Sydney, where he came to the Olympics. As the legend says, Frederick, who was then 28 years old, did not introduce himself as a prince to the girl, and for some time met with her incognito. Mary Donaldson, the daughter of emigrants from Scotland, moved to Europe a year after her acquaintance and married the Crown Prince in 2004. True, for this she had to renounce Australian citizenship, take Lutheranism and learn Danish. Now the happy couple has four children: two boys and two girls.