Sultan hassanal bolkiah
Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Haji
Hassanal BolkiahAl-Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Almarhum Sultan Omar
Ali Saifuddien Sa'adul
Khairi Waddien, GCB GCMG (born July 15, 1946) is the 29th Sultan
of Brunei,the eldest son of Omar Ali Saifuddin III,
the previous sultan.
As Minister of Defence he is also the Supreme Commander of the Royal Brunei
Armed Forces; an Honorary General in the British and Indonesian armed forces
and an Honorary Admiral of the Fleet in the British Navy. He appointed
himself as Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the Royal Brunei Police Force.
He was born on 15 July 1946 in Brunei Town (now called Bandar Seri Begawan).
He became crown prince in 1961 and sultan on 5 October 1967, after his
father abdicated voluntarily. His coronation was held on 1 August 1968.
Like his father, he has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of
the United Kingdom, of which Brunei was a protectorate until 1984.
Thelargest and most luxurious palace in the world
Consists of 1788 rooms withsome furnished in gold and diamond-encrusted
257 bathinlaid with gold and silver
and a garage to accommodate 110 cars
The palace has 650 suites ... each furnished atnot less than 150,000
thousand euros
Bed Room
Bath Room
This requires the visitor to spend 24 hours just to inspect each room for
30 seconds
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Despite his wealth, Hassanal Bolkiah Muizzaddin Waddaulah,
Sultan and Prime Minister of Brunei since 1967 is surrounded
by gloom. From his father he inherited a personal fortune
estimated at $40 billion, which once placed him at the top
of Fortune magazine's list of the world's richest people.
Recent reports, however, suggest that his treasure has
dwindled to a mere $10 billion-peanuts, these days.
The question is: where in earth can it all have gone?
It's not so easy to blow $30 billion, which is roughly
equivalent to the entire annual income of all 125 million
people living in Bangladesh.
Well, a sizeable chunk of it went on the Sultan's palace,
monstrosity that boasts 1,788 rooms and is larger than
the Vatican-in a tiny country with just 300,000 inhabitants.
When the Sultan's daughter turned 18 he bought her an Airbus.
For himself he prefers his own jumbo jet, originally designed to
carry over 400 people.
Great skill in extravagance has also been acquired by his brother,
Prince Jefri. Having heard of Disneyland, he decided to build the
Jerudong Park Playground in the capital, Bandar-Seri Begawan, at a
cost of $1 billion.
Between them, the brothers Bolkiah own London's Dorchester Hotel,
the New York Palace and the Plaza Athenee in Paris. After the Sultanate's
independence from Britain in 1984 they bought 2,000 luxury limousines
and became the world's biggest customers for Rolls Royce motor cars.
The Sultan married the former Malaysian journalist in
2005 in a secret ceremony in Kuala Lumpur.
They have two
children, a son, Prince Abdul Wakeel, and a daughter, Princess Ameera.
The first daughter of Crown Prince Billah and Princess
Sarah has been named Princess Muneerah. She was born at
10:47pm on January 2nd 2011.
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