Chapter 703: What a Beautiful Jasmine

The old king sighed because his family only talked about appearance and money, and no one cared about blood.

That's right, it's bloodline.

In order to maintain the "noble" bloodline, the European royal families in the past tried all kinds of ways to maintain the "purity" of their members, even if they intermarried with foreign countries, they were all between the royal family and the royal family.

Later, the European royal family was busy marrying one commoner princess after another, and the "noble" blood unity carefully defended by the European royal family for hundreds of years was gradually eroded. Of course, the old king Carl XVI also married a commoner princess.

However, this one in the photo is an Asian!

European royal families have been inherited for thousands of years, and they have not married Asians.

Oh no!

There was an Asian who married into a European royal family, Wen Liya.

Hong Kong girl Wen Liya, married Prince Joachim, the second son of the Queen of Denmark, in 1995, becoming the first Asian princess in the history of European royal families, but the two parties divorced in 2005.

In fact, Wen Liya's father is half Chinese and half British, and her mother is Austrian with Polish ancestry, so Wen Liya is only 1/4 Chinese, and her maiden name is Alexandra Christina Manli.

Wen Liya is of mixed Eurasian descent, with more European blood in her body. And this side learns the Tao, just by looking at the appearance, you know, pure Asian.

Bloodline!

But......

The old king also had bitterness in his heart.

His four sons and daughters were not very worrying.

The eldest daughter, Crown Prince Victoria, was independent and assertive since she was a child, and as a result, she fell in love with her personal physical trainer. It's been several years, and I can't dismantle it no matter how I dismantle it, and the more I dismantle it, the more tenacious it becomes. Victoria's boyfriend is a Swede, grew up in a small city on the west coast of Sweden, and his biggest property is a private fitness club.

Therefore, the eldest daughter is equivalent to finding a poor egg.

The second son, Philip, has not been in tune since he was a child, and his girlfriends have changed more than a dozen, and none of them are reliable. And Philip has obvious flaws in his personality, and the family basically can't count on him in the future.

The third son, Saran, has a good IQ and ability in all aspects, but he is not good at all, his personality is too girly, and he has no opinions. Having had three girlfriends, all of them models, and seeing old since childhood, Saran only has a soft spot for sexy women. Most crucially, Saran showed signs of celibacy.

Finally, the youngest daughter, Selena, has been much better in recent years, and she didn't pay attention to it in the early years. First fell in love with a divorced lawyer who was 16 years older, then fell in love with the stepson of a banker who was 8 years older, and a few months ago, he got very close to a third-rate rock singer, but all ended in nothing.

Count them all, divorce lawyer, banker stepson, rock singer......

The bloodline is pure, and there is no comparison with this Asian rich man in terms of wealth.

Who in the world can ignore the charm and power of wealth?

Then again, the old king is poor!

Karl XVI was not much less than the poorest king in Europe.

Of course, his "poverty" is relative.

King Carl Gustaf of Sweden had 10 palaces, but all of them were owned by the state. It is estimated that the old king personally had a fortune of about $20 million.

A fortune of $20 million is a lot for ordinary people, but for the royal family, it is quite cold. You must know that the wealth of the royal family in many countries is in the hundreds of millions.

The royal guard of honor, stewards, servants, cooks, royal physicians, and chauffeurs all had to pay their salaries, and they ate a lot of money every day. Of course, the Swedish government allocates a sum of money from the budget every year to the royal family's public fund account.

The problem is that this money, with countless eyes staring at it, no one dares to squander it.

After World War II, with the abolition of monarchy in Italy, Greece and other countries, only the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and the three Nordic countries still formally retain monarchs, but they no longer have real power, and they are more of a symbol of the country, and the decline of the royal family is obvious to all. In the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, Western countries experienced a high degree of economic prosperity, and European royal families experienced a wave of civilianization in the tide of economic development and deepening democracy.

At the end of 1997, shortly after the death of Princess Diana, the British royal family asked a research company to conduct a poll, and the results showed that people's impression of the royal family was "selfish, wasteful, stingy, arrogant, indifferent and unattainable". Some people even say that the queen is a "social parasite" because she enjoys a huge amount of money from the government every year. At that time, 53% of the British people demanded the abolition of the constitutional monarchy, leaving the royal family in a serious existential crisis.

In order to survive, the royal family had to modernize.

On the one hand, the people need to continue their spiritual idols, and on the other hand, they need spiritual idols who can step down from the altar and maintain the image of the common people.

Since then, the British and Dutch royal families have become the most transparent of European royal families in terms of wealth and income, and their financial systems are open and transparent, with almost no public funds used. Any citizen will be able to consult all the details of the royal family's expenditures, and there are more than 100 pages of information available on the Internet, and one will even be able to find out how much money the Queen spends on the barbershop. Of course, there will definitely be some cats in the public information, but at least it has made progress in the general direction, which is much better than covering the cover and dragging the life and death without disclosing the property.

To get back to the point, the old king had $20 million in assets. The youngest daughter, Selena, has a $2 billion fortune.

Well, a whole 100 times!

It's not that the old king loves money, the problem is that if you look at the eyes of the four children, you will feel that this time this is the most reliable.

Also, there is another reason for the old king's sigh, his wealth has been shrinking.

Investing in stocks has always been a popular choice for the royal family, and the elder King Carl XVI holds shares in a total of 11 companies listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.

Sadly, most of the stocks held by the old king have fallen sharply in the past six months, with nine stocks falling by more than 20% in price. By June 2007, the total market value of the old king's shares was only 100 million Swedish kronor (about $15 million).

The king's family had little to spare.

On the other hand, Bian Xuedao ......

Winery, airport, real estate company, IT company...... With his age, his ability, his capital, and his will to struggle for the "rich generation", it is inevitable that assets will continue to increase on a rolling basis.

It's $2 billion now, and in five or 10 years, maybe $20 billion or more.

In the hearts of the old king and queen, if the youngest daughter really wants to make a drag with this unmarried young rich Asian man, they will not stand in the way and will be happy to see it.

But the problem is that the youngest daughter said that they met by chance on the street.

Street...... Head...... Idol...... Meet!

The old king could not help but sigh.

Those cats and dogs before took the trouble to get close to each other. Now the only one that is reliable, his mother is actually a chance encounter.

In other words, the two are strangers at all.

repeatedly confirmed the authenticity of the "chance encounter" with Selena, and the family stopped talking.

The old-fashioned pendulum clock in the corner of the wall "clicked", and the sunlight slanted in through the window on the left, falling on Selena's golden hair, making her look exceptionally healthy and beautiful.

A breeze passed through the window, blowing the pink curtain in front of the window and tumbling like the sea, and the wind swirled in the room, and the air was immediately filled with the scent of jasmine.

It's June, and the jasmine outside the window is blooming.

Princess Victoria smiled and said, "It's really a coincidence, we are talking about the Chinese, and the fragrance of jasmine flowers wafts in." ”

Philip, who was bored with his feet on the carpet, leaned back in his chair and lazily asked, "What's the coincidence?"

Victoria said, "Haven't you heard the Chinese folk song 'What a Beautiful Jasmine'?"

Victoria was not at all surprised to know that "What a Beautiful Jasmine".

As Crown Prince, Victoria is required to act in her place when the King is unable to perform his duties as head of state due to travel or other accidents. His responsibilities include receiving foreign guests during state visits and representing Sweden and the royal family in public. Moreover, Princess Victoria interned at the Swedish Embassy in China, and she even knows a little Chinese.

Hearing her sister say this, Selena walked to the window, opened the curtain and looked out, and sure enough, in the garden outside the window, white buds were growing towards the sun.

Seeing that her husband remained silent, the queen said, "Since this is the case, let it be cold." All members of the royal family are not allowed to talk about Selena and that person with reporters and others outside. ”

The queen means:

First, since you don't know each other, you don't have a zài relationship, so naturally you can't admit it.

Second, although they don't know each other, the other party is "a character", and there is no need to explicitly deny it. Orientals value face, and the royal family publicly denies it, and they will completely cut off this road in the future. And this time the incident was widely circulated, denying the rich Asians, and once the daughter found an ordinary civilian in the future, it would be too visionary to compare it before and after.

Saran asked, "Can't you say a word?"

Victoria answered: "It's so hot outside, let's say that we won't necessarily believe it when we meet others, and then talk about ......" Speaking of this, Victoria glanced at her sister standing in front of the window, bathed in the golden sunshine, and said with a smile: "A lot of wonderful fate, all started with an inadvertent chance encounter, who can tell what will happen in the future?"

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What is going on now, Bian Xuedao can't explain it clearly.

He bought a winery, an airport, a luxury car, sat in the front row at the film festival, and spent a lot of money on a diamond necklace...... Wait, wait, everybody can take a look at it.

But this time is different, the scandal with the royal princess is known to the whole world, and some words are held in the stomach, which is really uncomfortable.

Everyone couldn't help it.

Li Yu and Li Xun, who came back from their honeymoon, asked Bian Xuedao what the situation was with the Swedish princess.

Yu Jin and Chen Jian asked, Zhu Zhichun and Meng Yinyun asked, Qi Sanshu and Huang Fatzi asked, Pei Tong and Hong Chengfu asked.

Fu Caining asked him how long he had known the princess.

Shen Fu told Bian Xuedao on the phone for the first time that this marriage partner is good.

Liao Li, who hadn't been in touch for a long time, called and asked Bian Xuedao, "How did you hook up with the princess?"

Bian Xuedao said: "Chance encounter." ”

Liao Li's words changed: "Looking at the photos on the Internet, why are you so old?"

"Old?" Bian Xuedao immediately corrected: "This is called maturity." Don't you know? There is a kind of handsome, called uncle. ”

Liao Lian smiled: "You are already handsome and become an uncle." ”

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(The mark of an immature person is that he is willing to die vigorously for a reason, and the mark of a mature person is that he is willing to live humbly for a reason.) Even the proud royal family has consciously given in in the face of the tide of the times, and there is no reason for others not to be humble. )

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