Brunei princess. The prince of Brunei is recognized as the most enviable groom in the world. His love for sports and athletics knows no bounds. He is almost professional in boxing - European and Thai, tougher

Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah with first wife Pengiran Anak Saleha and third wife Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim

Recently, in a topic about the Spanish Queen Leticia, I wrote that there are beautiful Asian princesses and queens in the world, but little is known about them.

Let's meet someone! Let's start with Brunei.

Brunei is a state (sultanate) in Southeast Asia, on the northwestern coast of the island of Kalimantan. It is washed by the South China Sea. The population is 401,890. Brunei is one of the smallest countries that still has a monarchy, and its monarchs are among the richest royal families in the world.

The royal gilded palace where the family lives has 1,788 rooms, 257 of which are bathrooms. The living area is 200,000 square meters (for clarity, imagine a football field, exactly 20 of these will fit in the palace). Under the palace is a huge garage for 500 Mercedes, 350 Bentleys, 170 Jaguars and 130 Rolls-Royces.

The current ruler is the 29th Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, a representative of a dynasty that has been ruling since the 14th century.

Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah with his first wife Pengiran Anak Saleha

Sultan was married 3 times. He is still married to his first wife, but he divorced his second and third, depriving them of all titles.

Pengiran Anak Saleh

Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah with first wife Pengiran Anak Saleha and second wife Haja Mariam

Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah with his second wife Haj Mariam

His second wife was a flight attendant for Royal Brunei Airlines, with whom he lived for over 20 years, and his third wife was a Malaysian television journalist 33 years his junior.

Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah with his third wife Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim

The Sultan has 12 children from three wives, 5 sons and 7 daughters.

Nothing is known about most of them other than their names. And even photographs appear mainly in connection with weddings. Moreover, the princesses are also confused, under the same name of the princess they publish photos of clearly different women.

But they are in very beautiful Brunei national costumes, which are very interesting to look at.

Princess Sarah

Princess Sarah, born Sarah Binti Salleh Ab-Rahaman (born 1987), became Crown Princess of Brunei when she married Crown Prince Al-Muhtadi Billah (the Sultan's eldest son) in 2004, at the age of 17.

However, she met the prince when she was 14 and still in school.

Sarah Salleh's father is a Brunei businessman and her mother is Swiss nurse Suzanne Aeby. She is the third and youngest child in the family.

Sarah received her Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Brunei Darussalam, the same university her husband studied at.

Sarah was also a cadet in the university cadet corps.

Now she and the prince have three children, two sons and a daughter.

Princess Majida

Princess Majida was born in 1976 and is the Sultan's fourth child. In 2007, the princess married Khairule Khalile, who is an assistant chief executive in the office of the Prime Minister of Brunei.

Princess Hafiza

Princess Hafiza (born 1980) is the fifth of 12 children of the current Sultan of Brunei, Hasanal Bolkia.

In 2012, 32-year-old Hafiza married a simple employee who is 2 years younger than her wife.

Hafiza works in the Ministry of Finance (her father is the Minister of Finance), and her husband works for the prime minister, in a unit that deals with economic issues.

These are three princesses, in whose personalities I am sure that they are in the photographs. In general, the life of the royal houses of Asia is very poorly covered in the press. Even there are no normal photographs anywhere, what kind of prince or princess they look like.

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Abdul Mateen, 25, who is fourth in line to the throne, was named the world's most eligible bachelor in 2016. Elite Daily .

The fortune of the Sultan of Brunei (a state in Southeast Asia) Hassanal Bolkiah, who is the father of the prince, is estimated at $ 20 billion. In addition to Matina, the Sultan is raising 11 more children: seven daughters and four sons.

The new favorite of girls from all over the world graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2011 with the rank of second lieutenant.

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He holds an MA in Arts from the London School of Oriental and African Studies, from which he graduated last year.

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He speaks several foreign languages, in particular English, French, Arabic and Italian.

Was once on the cover of a publication GQ in Thailand.

In his free time, a Muslim spends time with his family, enjoys traveling and playing polo, boxing and skiing.

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It is noteworthy that the prince enjoys the attention of the fair sex, but still has not found his soul mate.

It probably just needs to be real. Simplicity is what can really attract me, ”this is how the son of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah described his future wife.

Account Instagram Mateen has almost 400 thousand subscribers.

See photos of Abdul Matin:

Recall that the heir to the British throne, Prince Harry, who for a long time bore the title of the most enviable bachelor of the planet, is no longer alone. For the past six months, the media have only been discussing his relationship with the American actress Meghan Markle, with whom the prince plans to tie his fate.

But a holy place is never empty, and the fair sex has a great opportunity to dream about another handsome man.

Watch the video with Abdul Matin:

Abdul Mateen playing golf

Because of his affair with Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, the heir to the British throne, lost the title of the most desirable bachelor in the world, but as you know, a holy place is never empty. The vacated "post" was taken by 25-year-old Prince Abdul Mateen from Brunei. Meet the new enviable bachelor.

Family

Prince Mateen is the fourth son of the ruler of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, whose fortune is estimated at $20 billion. In addition to Matina, the Sultan is raising 11 more children: seven daughters and four sons.

I have a very large family, but the warmest relationship is with my older brother and two sisters. We do everything together

Prince Mateen admitted in an interview with GQ.

Studies

In 2011, the prince graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and holds the rank of second lieutenant. But, despite the excellent military skills, at the request of his father, he continued his studies at the University of London, where he received a master's degree in arts this year.

According to some reports, the prince speaks several foreign languages, in particular English, French, Arabic and Italian.

Hobbies

The Brunei prince loves outdoor activities. In his free time, he enjoys swimming, polo, boxing and skiing. Previously, Abdul Mateen spent a lot of time on the football field - he played for the Brunei AM Gunners team.

Instagram account

Abdul Matin is an active social media user. About 400 thousand subscribers have subscribed to his Instagram page. Judging by the pictures that he publishes in his profile, you can see that the prince is very fond of animals, especially wild ones - tigers and leopards. But is it legal to own such pets in Brunei?

Fan likes

Needless to say, most of the comments left under his publications (and these are vacation shots in which the prince is bare-chested) on his social network belong to Matin's fans.

The Crown Prince of Brunei, Al-Muhtadi Billa Bolkiah, has been a minion of fortune since birth. He was lucky to be the first to be born in a large family of one of the richest people in the world in a country where an absolute monarchy is still preserved. He has 11 siblings born from four marriages of Sultan Bolkiah's father. His parents are cousins and brothers. And if the monarch managed to divorce his second and third wives, depriving them of palace privileges, then the first and main wife-relative Saleh is always with him.

The study of their first-born was long and thorough: his royal majesty graduated from the universities in Brunei and Oxford, additionally studied the Koran and the basics of diplomacy. Al-Muhtadi is not a secular person and does not enjoy the increased attention of the paparazzi, but is engaged in business: Prime Minister of Brunei. In 2004, photos from the prince's luxurious wedding with a 17-year-old commoner named Sarah flew around the world. Princes, kings and sultans of neighboring states came to the celebration.

The prince was 30 years old at the time of the wedding. Since then, the family has had three children. The Crown Prince of Brunei owns a collection of sports cars from around the world and enjoys swimming, football and billiards. His father will soon be 70 years old, and the day is not far off when Al-Muhtadi will become a sultan and move to the Istana Nurul Iman palace, built of pure gold and marble, in which 1778 rooms and 200,000 m² - and this, by the way, is a world record.

Prince of Dubai

Resembling Disney's Aladdin, the 33-year-old crown prince of the emirate of Dubai is fabulously rich and is among the tops of the most enviable suitors on the planet. He bears the pompous name of Hamdan ibn Mohammed al-Maktoum and the titles of Sheikh, His Excellency and His Highness, but at the same time he is far from official. The prince is fond of extreme sports, writes poems about his homeland, leads Instagram- more than 3 million users have subscribed to his page filled with selfies, children, animals and beautiful landscapes. Hamdan was declared crown prince only in 2008, and his elder brother Rashid, who had been trained for power since childhood, was forced to abdicate. This sudden reshuffle was only recently explained by WikiLeaks publications: it was reported that Rashid killed one of the assistants in the emir's palace, after which the enraged sheikh revised the order of succession.

Hamdan received an excellent education and is very well prepared for his future role as head of state. First, he graduated from the Dubai Government School, then the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, where the heirs to the British throne Harry and William studied and where Arab sheikhs traditionally send their children, followed by the London School of Economics. Today, Hamdan holds several key positions 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 fortune, according to Forbes magazine, was $18 billion in 2011.

Prince of Jordan

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

The Prince's official website states that he is direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad in the 42nd generation and is named after his grandfather, who is the founder of modern Jordan. Last year, he took part in a meeting of the UN Security Council and became the youngest participant in its history.

IN Instagram the prince can be seen not only in a business suit, but also in military uniform with a machine gun in his hands (he is a second lieutenant of the Jordanian Armed Forces), and in a keffiyeh, a red and white scarf traditionally worn by men in Arab countries, and in everyday clothes . The prince plays football, rides a motorcycle, visits sick children, poses with his brother and sisters and unobtrusively advertises the beauty of his native country. He is still far from the popularity of the Dubai prince - there are not even half a million subscribers.

Princes of Wales

There are many princes in Europe as well. The most popular are British: 67-year-old Prince Charles, who still will not yield the throne to Mother Queen Elizabeth II - the longest-reigning monarch in the history of Great Britain, and his sons from marriage with Princess Diana: 33-year-old William and 31-year-old Harry.

From childhood, the brothers-princes were brought up without officialdom: Princess Diana insisted that her children not study in isolation, but go to school on an equal footing with their peers. At the boarding school for boys, Crown Prince William shared a room with four students, led the hockey team and the rugby team. True, later, at Eton College, he lived separately and used a special shower room, but this was done for his own safety. William later graduated from the prestigious St. Andrews University in Scotland. Part of the education of both princes was travel, work experience and military service: in particular, William visited Chile and several African countries, worked on a dairy farm and managed to study at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst and flight school. Today he is a captain in the Royal Air Force and a rescue helicopter pilot. In December 2011, William participated in the operation to rescue Russian sailors from the sinking ship Swanland. In 2010, the prince married Kate Middleton, with whom he had studied in Scotland - their wedding was included in the Guinness Book of Records for "the largest number of live events viewed". The couple have since had a son, Crown Prince George of Cambridge, and a daughter, Charlotte.

Crazy child, as journalists called Harry,- only the fifth in line of heirs to the throne. In the past, he was caught using alcohol and marijuana, received poor grades in geography, and as an adult, he participated in risky military operations in Afghanistan and, according to British press reports, destroyed one of the leaders of the Taliban movement. Prince Harry today the most enviable groom in all of Europe.

Prince of Nassau and Prince of Parma

Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg has three sons and two daughters. The eldest of them - 34-year-old Guillaume - is stately and good-looking. He is the heir of Luxembourg and holds the pompous titles of Crown Grand Duke, Prince of Nassau and Prince of Parma. In honor of the 25th anniversary, the portrait of the son and father were printed on a €2 commemorative coin. The future duke is fluent in five languages: his native Luxembourgish, as well as French, English, Spanish and German. Where he just did not study: in Luxembourg, Switzerland, Great Britain and France, he graduated, like many princes, from the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst and with honors from the Faculty of Languages, Philology and Humanities of the University of Angers with a degree in political science. For ten years of service in the Armed Forces of Luxembourg, he managed to rise to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

In 2012, Guillaume, unfortunately for many women, married Countess Stephanie de Lannoy, a representative of an ancient Belgian aristocratic family. The couple have a common titled ancestor, both love music and sports. The prince can play the piano and guitar, the princess can play the violin. In the past, Guillaume sang in a children's choir and even was in a school rock band at Alpin Beausoleil College in Switzerland.

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

Prince of Liechtenstein

The tiny European state of Liechtenstein still maintains a constitutional monarchy. Although Prince Hans-Adam II is in power, state affairs have been managed since 2004 by his eldest son, 47-year-old Crown Prince Alois Philipp Maria, also known as Count Rietberg.

Alois spent his childhood in Vaduz Castle with his brothers and sisters: Maximilian, Konstantin and Tatiana. After studying at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, he served for six months in Hong Kong and London. After graduating from the law department of the University of Salzburg, he managed to work in an audit company in London, until the pope-prince called him and placed all state affairs on his shoulders - he appointed him regent.

The prince has an exemplary family: three sons and a daughter, as well as a beautiful wife Sophia from an aristocratic family - a descendant of the last king of Bavaria, Louis III. In politics, Alois also advocates having many children: when the question arose of legalizing abortion, the prince threatened to veto it, and the activists lost. Today, abortion is still banned in Liechtenstein and the population is only growing - thanks in large part to the prince, almost 37,000 people live in a dwarf state.

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

Prince of Denmark

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

Frederick is the eldest son of Queen Margrethe II, she is 75 years old, and for the sake of her accession to the throne in Denmark, the law on succession to the throne was changed: three girls and no boys were born in the family of her father Frederick IX. Her son Frederik studied at Harvard University, interned at the UN in New York, received a Ph.D. in political science from Aarhus University and has made a career in all branches of the military: he is a Rear Admiral of the Navy, Major General of the Army and Air Force.

Prince of Norway

The prince of Norway, 42-year-old Haakon, has a sister, Martha Louise, who is two years older than him. Haakon was fortunate to have been born before the law of male supremacy in succession to the crown was repealed. Martha Louise herself is a strange person, she writes books about angels and runs the Center for the Education of Alternative Medicine. Once she shocked the public by declaring her paranormal abilities - in particular, that she hears angels.

Unlike her, Haakon is a person with no special features. As a child, he went to a regular kindergarten, then graduated from high school and a Christian gymnasium. Its universities are the Naval Preparatory School in Stavanger, the Naval Academy in Horten, the University of California and the University of Oslo. Now the prince serves in the Norwegian Foreign Ministry.

Haakon is married. In 2001, the tabloids discussed Haakon's scandalous marriage for a long time: he married a single mother, Mette-Marit, who, when they met, worked as a waitress and raised her four-year-old son Marius (the boy's father was in prison for possession of drugs). All relatives, of course, were against this marriage, but Haakon acted decisively: he adopted a child (however, Marius does not participate in the succession to the throne) and married a commoner. They had two more children: the firstborn is the daughter of Ingrid Alexandra, it is she who will inherit the crown from the pope, leaving her younger brother Sverre Magnus with her nose. Together with their children, the spouses relax in ski resorts, ride a yacht and radiate happiness in family photographs.

The royal wedding of the future Sultan of Brunei, Prince Abdul Malik, with his chosen one, 22-year-old programmer Dayangku Raabi’atul ‘Adawiyyah Pengiran Haji Bolkiah, eclipsed even the wedding of the Crown Prince of the British throne, which, compared to this one, could be called very modest. The prince of Brunei and his chosen one were dressed in wedding dresses embroidered with real gold, and the bride's bouquet was made of precious stones.

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1. Prince Abdul Malik is the youngest of the four sons of the reigning Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and the second in line to the throne after his father. The wedding ceremony took place 11 days after the engagement. (Photo: STRINGER / REUTERS / REUTERS).
2. The shoes of the bride from Christian Louboutin are decorated with diamonds and gold. (Photo: OLIVIA HARRIS / REUTERS / REUTERS). 3. The bride's wedding necklace and tiara are adorned with diamonds and huge emeralds the size of grapes. According to local traditions, the bride must wear something borrowed. In this case, it was the mother-in-law's jewelry - a diamond tiara, a necklace and a brooch. (Photo: STRINGER / REUTERS / REUTERS).
4. The solemn wedding ceremony took place in the Sultan's palace in the capital of Brunei, in Bandar Seri Begawan. Istana Nurul Imam Palace - the residence of the Sultan - has 1788 rooms. (Photo: OLIVIA HARRIS / REUTERS / REUTERS).
5. The Sultan of Brunei, the groom's father and fuel magnate, is one of the richest men in the world. His fortune is estimated at 20-80 billion dollars. Hassanal Bolkiah has been ruling his country since 1967. (Photo: OLIVIA HARRIS / REUTERS / REUTERS).
6. The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, has five sons and seven daughters from three marriages. Prince Abdul Malik is second in line to the Brunei throne. The first son, Crown Prince Al-Muhtadi Bill of Brunei, married over 10 years ago. (Photo: OLIVIA HARRIS / REUTERS / REUTERS).
7. During the wedding ceremony. (Photo: STRINGER / REUTERS / REUTERS).

Brunei, a 400,000-strong British colony on the northwestern coast of Borneo, is an absolute monarchy (sultanate). In Brunei, which is ruled by the 68-year-old sultan, he is both the head of state and the head of government, and the minister of national defense, and the minister of finance.

8. Prince Abdul Malik with his father, the Sultan of Brunei. Members of the royal family have often been criticized for being too extravagant in their lifestyle. The Telegraph recalled that in 1996, Michael Jackson was supposed to receive £10 million for a concert in honor of the 50th birthday of the Sultan. However, dissatisfaction with the state system in the country is small, which is a consequence of the high standard of living of its citizens, as well as free education and healthcare. (Photo: OLIVIA HARRIS / REUTERS / REUTERS).

9. Brunei is a country whose official religion is Islam. Last year, after the adoption of Sharia law by the Sultan, which allows the use of punishments such as stoning and flogging, a wave of indignation and discontent rose in the country. (Photo: OLIVIA HARRIS / REUTERS / REUTERS).