OF THE 1% BY THE 1% FOR THE 1%

Royal Wealth

1. Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family are worth £44 billion the Forbes valuation is what QEII is worth herself, to herself, the £44 billion is the value to everyone else of her existence and presence. It shouldn’t be surprising that the two valuations are different: no entrepreneur or businessman ever captures the entire social value of their activities.
2. Royal Families around the World
3. House of Wittelsbach a European royal family jewels and a German dynasty from Bavaria
4. Thailand's monarchy Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn is among the world's 1% richest, with its fortune in part built through investments in major local businesses such as SCG and Siam Commercial Bank. Cambodia built a $40,000 toilet for visiting She didn't even use it. 2015 UNICEF said 61.5 per cent of Cambodians living in rural areas practice open-defecation -- one of the highest rates in Southeast Asia -- as they have no access to latrines. Provincial governor Nhem Sam Oeun confirmed the toilet was unused, adding the loo is "very modern, very good... it can't be kept because it is for royals." 
    

Jewelry and Clothes are the Symbol of Power, Strength, and Opulence.

Throughout history, societies have used sumptuary laws for a variety of purposes.
They attempted to regulate the balance of trade by limiting the market for expensive imported goods. They were also an easy way to identify social rank and privilege, and often were used for social discrimination. In the Late Middle Ages, sumptuary laws were instituted as a way for the nobility to cap the conspicuous consumption of the prosperous bourgeoisie of medieval cities, and they continued to be used for these purposes well into the 17th century.

1863 DEATH AT THE NEEDLE: THE TRAGEDY OF VICTORIAN SEAMSTRESS MARY WALKLEY

Elizabethen rules regarding Who Wears What and The Sumptuary Statues 
The punishment for violation of these statutes were fines and/or jail times amounting up to three months for the 1562 statute forbidding any person under the rank of Knighthood wearing silk trimming on hats and other sundries. During Henry's reign, the 1533 Act for Reformation of Excesse in Apparayle had a fine of 3 shillings and 4 pence for every day of the offense. This was not an astronomical fine, but it can be imagined it would be a strain on a member of the working classes. Those employing servants who had violated the restrictions could face a large fine as well for not releasing the servant from his employment or hiring him again. Penalties paid were fines, not fees, and person of lower status could not purchase the "rights" to a specific item or material (Secara).  

The 1363 law also regulated the wearing of silk and purple; the poor (families of servants) were prohibited from wearing silk or fur. Only lords were allowed to wear a jacket that did not cover the knees. Only the Royal Family was allowed to wear purple.  Queen Elizabeth I forbad anyone except close members of the royal family to wear it. Purple's elite status stems from the rarity and cost of the dye originally used to produce it.  Purple fabric used to be so outrageously expensive that only rulers could afford it. The dye initially used to make purple came from the Phoenician trading city of Tyre, which is now in modern-day Lebanon. Fabric traders obtained the dye from a small mollusk that was only found in the Tyre region of the Mediterranean Sea. In 1856, 18-year-old English chemist William Henry Perkin accidently created a synthetic purple compound while attempting to synthesize quinine, an anti-malaria drug . He noticed that the compound could be used to dye fabrics, so he patented the dye and manufactured it under the name aniline purple and Tyrian purple, making a fortune in the process.  The color's name was later changed to "mauve" in 1859, based on the French name for the purple mallow flower, with chemists calling the dye compound mauveine. And that's how the elite royal color became widely available and affordable.

A History Lesson
in Economics

The $3500 Shirt – A History Lesson in Economics

A practiced seamstress could probably sew it in 7 hours. But that's not all that would go into the making. There's the cloth. A shirt like this would take about 4 yards of cloth, and it would be a fine weave: the Knoxville Museum of Art estimates two inches an hour. So 4(yards)*36(inches)/2 = 72 hours. (I'm a weaver - or at least I used to be - so this sounds accurate to me.) Okay, so hand weaving and hand sewing would take 79 hours. Now the estimate for spinning has always been complex, so stick with me for a minute: Yardage of thread for 4 yards of cloth, one yard wide (although old looms often only wove about 24" wide cloth), and requires 12 threads per inch, so:  12 threads * 36" wide * (4 yards + 2 yards for tie-up = 6 yards, or 72") * 72 = 31,004 inches, or 864 yards of thread for the warp. And you'd need about the same for a weft, or a total of about 1600 yards of thread for one shirt.  1600 yards would take a while to spin. At a Dark Ages recreation site, they figured out a good spinner could do 4 yards in an hour, so that would be 400 hours to make the thread for the weaving.   So, 7 hours for sewing, 72 for weaving, 400 for spinning, or 479 hours total to make one shirt. At minimum wage - $7.25 an hour - that shirt would cost $3,472.75. And that's just a standard shirt.

ARE YOU RELATE TO CHARLEMAGNE?

 

DON'T GET EXCITED!

SO IS EVERY OTHER LIVING EUROPEAN 

Geneticists Peter Ralph and Graham Coop showed that all Europeans are descended from exactly the same people. Basically, everyone alive in the ninth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, Drogo, Pippin and Hugh. Quel dommage.  Anyone with European ancestry is related to King Charlemagne.
“Everyone alive in the ninth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne,” Rutherford writes, explaining that Europeans alive today are probably related to the long-dead Holy Roman Emperor even if their DNA test doesn’t show it:  Because of the way the DNA deck is shuffled every time a sperm or egg is made, it doesn’t keep halving perfectly as you meander up through your family tree.
If you’re fully outbred (which you aren’t), you should have 256 great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents. But their genetic contribution to you is not equal. Before long, you will find ancestors from whom you bear no DNA. They are your family, your blood, but their genes have been diluted out of your bloodline. Even though you are directly descended from Charlemagne, you may well carry none of his DNA.

 

LINEAGE / TITLES

HOW TO KEEP THE
Land, Titles, MONEY
AND Jewelry
 INSIDE THE 1%

BURKES PEERAGE
Has provided authoritative genealogical records of historical families for over 188 years. Its records were originally compiled by members of the Burke family and added to by others to build a collection of books of genealogical and heraldic interest. Burke’s Peerage was established in 1826 by John Burke (1786–1848). He pioneered the narrative style which has become the trademark of Burke’s Peerage and a recognised model for written genealogies. He was also the progenitor of a dynasty of genealogists and heralds. Burke’s Peerage was established in London in 1826 by John Burke and has become the definitive guide to the genealogy and heraldry of the Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Landed Gentry of the United Kingdom, the historical families of Ireland and the Commonwealth of Nations, the Imperial, Royal and Mediatised families of Europe and Latin America, the Presidential and distinguished families of the United States, the ruling families of Africa and the Middle East and other prominent families worldwide. Sovereign Families

Almanach de Gotha
A directory of Europe's royalty and higher nobility. First published in 1763 by C.W. Ettinger in Gotha at the ducal court of Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, it came to be regarded as an authority in the classification of monarchies and their courts, reigning and former dynasties, princely and ducal families, and the genealogical, biographical and titulary details of Europe's highest level of aristocracy. It was published from 1785 annually by Justus Perthes Publishing House in Gotha, until 1944 when the Soviets destroyed the Almanach de Gotha's archives. In 1998, a London-based publisher acquired the rights for use of the title of Almanach de Gotha from Justus Perthes Verlag Gotha GmbH.

BEFORE 1870 A BROKE ENGLISH TITLED MAN FINDS A RICH AMERICAN WOMEN TO MARRY AND TAKES ALL HER MONEY.
The Married Women's Property Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c.93) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed women to be the legal owners of the money they earned and to inherit property.

 

IN WALKS THE MILLION DOLLAR AMERICAN PRINCESSES

smithsonianchannel.com/shows/million-dollar-american-princesses/1003587
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Historic_Landmarks_in_Rhode_Island

America's richest heiresses traded cash for British royalty. Marriages between the daughters of new-money Americans and a cash-strapped British aristocracy hit its stride by 1895. But these unions come at a price, financially and emotionally. Snubbed new-money American families as they take England by storm and find love - and misery - as British royalty.
There are three kinds of British people: royals, nobles, and commoners. The official royal family comprises only the queen's direct relatives—her children, grandchildren in the male line, and some cousins.  The much larger nobility includes those with a direct ancestor who was granted a peerage by the monarch at some point in history.

Newport estates of the Gilded Age

America's richest heiresses traded cash for British royalty. Cash for Class: Follow snubbed new-money American families as they take England by storm and find love - and misery - as British royalty. Under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, the monarch's direct descendants must seek his or her permission to marry. But if a prince or princess can't get the monarch's consent, they just have to wait a year. Unless both houses of Parliament object, the marriage is on.  Royals who elope without the royal blessing aren't removed from succession, but their marriage is void. Any children born to the couple are illegitimate and can't ascend to the throne.

 

OH THE Irony!

FRANCES E. WORK

Franklin H. Work (1819–1911), hates the English because the elites  are broke, good for nothings, and come to America to steal their best woman!  A well-known stockbroker and protégé of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and his wife, Ellen Wood (1831–1877) were Princess Diana's maternal great-great-grandparents, Frank Work and Ellen Wood were born in Chillicothe, Ross Co., OH. They moved to NYC and Frank Work made millions on Wall St.

American and English Royalty hater Franklin Work is the great great grandfather of His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge!!!!!
smithsonianchannel.com/shows/million-dollar-american-princesses/1003587 

Their daughter Frances E. Work (Princess Diana's great-grandmother) was born 1857 in New York City. Married a British man named James Boothby Burke Roche, the 3rd Baron Fermoy, in NYC. She also died in NYC in 1947. Her son, Edmund Roche (Diana's grandfather) was born in England. wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Ellen_Work

FRANCES E. WORK  Frances "Fanny" Work (October 27, 1857 -- January 26, 1947) 

She grew up in fabulous wealth in their Elm Court home in Newport, Rhode Island, where her descendants continue to live to this day. In 1878, Fanny met James Burke Roche, the second son of Baron Fermoy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Ellen_Work

Despite her father's objections and barely-concealed annoyance, they were married in September 1880. It lasted just seven years. Tired of supporting the extravagant tastes of his son-in-law, Frank Work negotiated an extraordinary settlement, agreeing to pay off James's debts in return for a divorce and custody of his sons. Such was Frank Work's disdain for the British upper class that he would later stipulate in his will that none of his surviving family should ever visit Britain again. Had his wishes been honored, the course of history might have been different. Years later, Fanny's granddaughter gave birth to a girl, named Diana Frances Spencer. The world would later know her as the iconic Princess Di.

Princess Diana's Hidden Ancestral Secret Revealed

On her mother's side, Diana was partially American in ancestry. Her great-grandmother was the American heiress Frances Work. "Eliza Kewark was a dark-skinned native of Bombay who had lived, without benefit of matrimony, with her great-great-grandfather Theodore Forbes while he worked for the East India Company," "The Real Diana" reads.
Once upon a time, a woman from India named Eliza Kewark was shunned by her family because of her race.  The father of her child referred to her as the "housekeeper" and the "purported mother" of their daughter, Katharine.  Katharine was sent off without her mother to England, and that's where this story might have ended. But Katherine gave birth to Jane, who gave birth to Ruth, who had another Ruth, who had Frances, who had Diana.  As in Princess Diana.  Which means that Great Britain will, one day, have a monarch with Indian blood, and the Commonwealth will be led by a king with a clear genetic link to its most populous nation.  Eliza Kewark is Prince William's great-great-great-great-great-grandmother. She has long been described as Armenian, but Kewark was at least half-Indian, the genetic ancestry testing company BritainsDNA announced. "It is therefore likely that Prince William has not only inherited a small proportion of Indian DNA from Eliza Kewark but her heirs will also carry it," BritainsDNA said today. http://abcnews.go.com/News/princess-dianas-hidden-ancestral-secret-revealed/story?id=19401903

Kate Middleton has always seemed like an all-American girl.
Vanity Fair reveals a newly uncovered family photograph and groundbreaking genealogical research that confirm the princess-to-be’s hidden Kennedy bloodline. Middleton’s paternal great-grandmother Edwardian socialite Olive Lupton is the daughter of Francis Martineau Lupton and Harriet Albina Davis. Davis is the daughter of William Davis, whose aunt, Maria Davis, married James Kennedy, father to Patrick, grandfather to P.J., great-grandfather to Joe, and great-great-grandfather to John F. Kennedy.
vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/04/kate-middleton-kennedy-connection-201104

Kate Middleton's rise to the ranks of the aristocracy would not have been possible without the hard-headed foresight of a Victorian industrialist and philanthropist.
telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8164731/How-a-Victorian-industrialist-helped-Kate-Middletons-parents.html

 

It is also a sign of psychosis whereby the .01% have no concern for how the rest of the 99% of the population on earth lives.

 

EXACTLY WHICH WOMEN ARE LEFT OFF THE FORBES WEALTHIEST IN THE WORLD?
 

The Duchess of 539-year-old House of Alba insists she is not that wealthy.

"I have a lot of artworks, but I can't eat them, can I?" she has protested. The art that she cannot eat includes, aside from hundreds of paintings, a first edition of Don Quixote, Columbus' first map of America and the last will and testament of Fernando the Catholic, father of Catherine of Aragon.

11/20/14 RIP The Duchess of Alba  recognized as the world's most titled noble aristocrat, dies at 88 Fitz-James Stuart y Silva was born March 28, 1926, in the sumptuous Liria Palace in the center of Madrid. Guinness World Records said the duchess's more than 40 titles made her the world's most titled noble. Maria del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia Francisca Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva, born in Madrid's Palacio de Lira, has more titles than any noble on earth, being a duchess seven times over, a countess 22 times and a marquesa 24.

The Duchess must have been a GUELPH As head of the 539-year-old House of Alba, her privileges include not having to kneel before the pope and the right to ride on horseback into Seville cathedral. In 1364, we find it enacted by the Republic of Florence that any one who appeals to the pope or his legate or the cardinals shall be declared a Ghibelline. 

She was a direct descendant of the King James II of Great Britain, through his illegitimate son James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick by his mistress Arabella Churchill. The Duchess of Alba has a centuries old claim to the Scottish crown as a member of the House of Stuart. Some Scots looked back fondly in the history books to their Stuart kings, the first of whom was Robert II in 1371. By the 17th century, they ruled all of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. 
She is succeeded by her son Carlos Fitz-James Stuart y Martinez de Irujo and also survived by sons Alfonso, Jacobo, Fernando and Cayetano, and daughter Eugenia.Maria del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva was related to Winston Churchill.  Forbes recently estimated her wealth to be in the region of 2.8 billion euros ($3.5 billion). She died at her Duenas Palace residence.  With estates dotted across mainland Spain and on some of its islands, she was known for being able to crisscross the country without having to spend the night in a property that wasn't hers. She also had one of Spain's most dazzling art collections, including works by grand masters Goya, Rembrandt and Velazquez.A Grandee of Spain and the holder of six dukedoms, she could trace her noble lineage back 17 generations. She inherited her titles from her father, with whom she lived in London - where he was named Spanish ambassador - while hostilities raged in Spain's 1936-39 civil war. She took over the house of Alba, becoming its 18th leader as well as the 11th Duchess of Berwick, to mention just two titles, upon her father's death in 1953.
Her eldest son Carlos inherits the Liria Palace in Madrid and the Monterrey Palace in Salamanca, as well as overall control of the family fortune. Much of the patrimony is managed by a foundation and, in return for tax breaks, belongs by law to the nation and cannot be sold. However, the duchess's personal wealth is estimated at between €600m and €3.5bn and she has been able to give her children and eight grandchildren a palace each, as well as a chunk of the thousands of acres of Spain that she owns. Her only daughter, Eugenia, inherits an estate in Ibiza and a further 600 acres near Seville. more

 

ONLY MARRIED WOMEN CAN WEAR A TIARA!

 

obscene wealth
of the .01%

 

History Of The World

IT'S GOOD TO BE THE KING

7:28 Count De Money: It is said the the people seem to be revolting

King:  You said it! They stink on ice.

 

THE ENGLISH ROYAL JEWELS

Since 1843, when Queen Victoria bestowed the honour of Crown Jeweller on the company, Garrard has served six successive monarchs. One of the most enduring images of Queen Victoria is of her wearing a small diamond crown made by Garrard in 1870.
Garrard, 24 Albemarle Street, London W1 (0870-871 8888

It's good to be the king. The Royal Forums

Various crowns and royal headdresses from around the world that shows their obscene wealth.

Jewels of the Russian Romanovs and Holidays and Celebrations - Romanov Charity Bazaar in Yalta, Crimea

The Diamond Fund at the Kremlin contains thousands of priceless treasures
 including gems, jewelry and gold nuggets. Set up by Peter the Great at the beginning of the 18th century, the collection is still growing.

Royal Jewels and Tiaras

European Royal and Imperial Jewels - Part 1: Tiara

 

The Royal Jewels (De Kongelige Juveler) - Part 1

This first episode looks at the Scandinavian royal families, German principalities, the British Royal family and the Benelux countries, starting with the coronation of Emperor Napoleon in 1804, where the eyes of the world were trained on France.   Napoleon Bonaparte is planning a magnificent ceremony, in which the Pope himself will crown him Emperor. Incredible wealth is spent on jewelry and clothing - nothing is left to chance.   Not only is Napoleon's wife, Josephine, taking part in the coronation, but also there is his first fiancée, Désirée Clary, wearing the most beautiful rubies and diamonds - a parure that Désirée brings with her when she later becomes Queen of Sweden.   Her son marries Josephine's granddaughter, and through several generations, the Swedish Royal family inherits magnificent jewels from the French family. Today, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark wears Désirée's ruby parure.

 

The Royal Jewels (De Kongelige Juveler) - Part 2

The second episode begins in Russia, where in 1917, the wealthy Grand Duchess Vladimir publicly declares her opinion of her nephew, Tsar (Czar) Nicholas II, and his incompetent way of governing the country. The nephew exiles his aunt to the Caucasus, and her grandiose jewels are left at the palace in St.Petersburg.   During the revolution, her son dresses up as a craftsman, and sneaks into the palace collecting several large sets of jewelry, which are later smuggled out of Russia. Today, the English Queen Elizabeth II, wears the Grand Duchess' very beautiful diamond tiara.

 

How They Spend It $$$

Imperial Jewels - Kremlin Exhibit

Houses of Savoy and Savoy-Aosta

 

Haemophilia and Porphyria - Royal diseases from Tainted Blood

The Royal family has had many instances of unexplained illnesses and premature death during it's history - George III's 'madness', the downfall of Mary Queen of Scots and Rasputin bringing down the Russian throne, can all be linked back to Queen Victoria.   This programme explores how, in trying to preserve the bloodline, the monarchy may have spread genetic disease far and wide - from Porphyria wreaking havoc with British royals to Haemophilia finding its way from Buckingham Palace, all the way to Moscow.