Prince Brunei married a commoner aged 17 and staged a-
The story of Cinderella in Asia
On the 9th of this month, Sultans Of Brunei, as rich as an enemy, held a grand wedding for his 30-year-old eldest son, Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah, and 17-year-old daughter Sarah Saleh became the future queen. Thousands of leaders and royal nobles from all over the world flew to this small country in the southern hemisphere to attend the most luxurious wedding in Asia since the Japanese Crown Prince got married in 2006 and witness the Brunei version of the romantic story between the prince and Cinderella.
"Asian Wedding" lasting 19 days
Barani krishnan, a journalist from Reuters, called the wedding "Asian Wedding of the Year".
In fact, on August 24th, Crown Prince Bila and Sarah Saleh held a simple engagement ceremony in bandar seri begawan. Most of the people who came to attend were members of the royal family and the family of future princess Saleh. According to the traditional customs of Brunei people, the engagement ceremony is only the beginning of a series of celebrations, and the whole wedding overture will last 19 days.
So from August 26th, all kinds of celebrations began, and the whole country in Brunei was jubilant. However, the wedding will not be held until September 9.
On the 9th, some guests gathered at the slave Ruyman Palace in Brunei. Crown Prince Bila, wearing a golden crown and a wave-edged dagger at his waist, boarded the platform accompanied by his father, Sultans Of Brunei Hassanal bolkiah, and took a seat in the golden seat. Sarah Saleh, the bride, looks radiant in a blue skirt with a border, a veil and a bouquet of gold and diamonds. At this time, this traditional wedding entered.
Susanna Abbey, the mother of the bride, also appeared at the wedding ceremony, wearing a veil and traditional national costumes.
The clergy prayed for the newlyweds, and Bila put a hand on Saleh's diamond headscarf. After the prayer ceremony, the couple walked off the platform, kissed their father bolkiah's hand and thanked him for his blessing.
The heavy rain can't stop the float parade.
The streets of Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital, are filled with festive colors, covered with boards of the Crown Prince and his wife, and filled with yellow flowers. Early in the morning, thousands of people waited along the street to see the crown prince and his wife. Pupils in school uniforms waved golden flags, hoping to see the new style. The human dragon is 8 kilometers long. After the ceremony in the palace, the Crown Prince and his wife took a Rolls-Royce limousine decorated with a golden hood like a carriage and led the limousine carrying members of Brunei royal family to cruise in the capital bandar seri begawan. The scene is huge. Maybe God was also moved by the wedding, and it suddenly began to rain during the trip. The footman went to the car of the Crown Prince and his wife at the right time to get the umbrella, but the people who had been waiting in the street since dawn rushed away after seeing the Crown Prince and his wife, which was very embarrassing. Raub, 77, watched the wedding of the current king more than 30 years ago. He said, "It is my honor to live to witness Chu Jun's wedding."
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Wedding canopy gathering.
The wedding of Crown Prince Brunei is the biggest wedding witnessed in Asia since Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito and Masako Owada got married in 2006. When Naruhito, King Hamad of Bahrain and Prince Bandal of Saudi Arabia arrived at the palace and took their seats in the golden seats in the main hall, the Brunei guard of honor fired a 2 1 salute. Naruhito is alone, because the Japanese Palace Office recently announced that the Crown Prince and Princess are still unfit to travel, so Masako can't attend.
Other dignitaries attending the wedding included Richard, Duke of Gloucester, representing the Queen and Prince Charles, President Megawati of Indonesia, President Arroyo of the Philippines and Prime Minister Badawi of Malaysia. Remarkably, Singapore, which has a deep historical relationship with Brunei, sent Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Lee Kuan Yew to attend the wedding.
However, Sultans Of Brunei bolkiah's younger brother, Prince Jeffrey bolkiah, was not invited. In the 1990s, Jeffrey lost Brunei about $7 billion because of economic policy mistakes. He is currently in exile in Europe.
This wed has aroused people's worry about that monarchy.
The wedding of Prince Brunei has aroused people's concern about the current situation of Asian monarchy.
In Brunei, Japan, Thailand, Bhutan and other countries, the monarchy has a history of hundreds of years and still has a great influence on social unity and stability.
K. Kesavapany, head of the Singapore-based Southeast Asian Studies Association, said: "Based on the relevant social and cultural background, the monarchy can play an important role." He specifically mentioned Thailand: "On this issue, the King of Thailand may be an example, and so is Japan. While maintaining national stability, Sultans Of Brunei also made him feel basically satisfied. " Kesavapany believes that the monarchy must adapt to the development trend of the times and make corresponding adjustments to "avoid being swept away by the wind of change." He said that Malaysia is a good example. Although Mahathir greatly weakened the influence of the royal family during his tenure as prime minister, the monarchy is still a symbol of Malaysia.
Malaysia now has a special constitutional monarchy. Every five years, the rulers' meeting takes turns to elect the supreme head of state from the hereditary sultans of nine states. The supreme head of state is the head of state, religious leaders and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
Nazelin Shah, the heir of Sultan Perak, Malaysia, said in a recent speech in Singapore: "To outsiders, the monarchy we adhere to is definitely an odd survival system, which is anachronistic and outdated ... This view ignores the dynamic process of the monarchy's development, reconstruction and self-definition with social changes."
He was brought up carefully since childhood.
Sultans Of Brunei and his queen and princess had four sons and six daughters. Bila, the eldest son, was born on February 7, 2008, and was officially crowned Crown Prince on August 0, 2008. He will be the 30th Sultan of Brunei royal family for many years. Crown Prince Bila was carefully cultivated by his father since he was a child. Crown Prince Bila went to Cambridge University for further study in 1986, and transferred to Oxford University in 1986. In order to become a qualified 30th Sultan, the Sultan of bolkiah did not allow Crown Prince Bila to drive expensive cars in and out of casinos like other princes. While studying in Oxford, Prince Bila liked playing table tennis and badminton instead of aristocratic sports. In order to participate in the international snooker competition, he often signed up under the pseudonym Omar Hassan. Interest has come, and the Crown Prince is still playing for the Brunei national team.
After returning from studying abroad, Crown Prince Bila quickly emerged in Brunei's political arena and was well received by the people. He worked as an intern in several departments to gain political experience and exercise his ruling ability. But at present, there is no indication that the Sultan of bolkiah will take the initiative to meditate like his predecessor, so it is still unknown when Crown Prince Bila will ascend to the throne. ...
The crown prince "flies" his ex-girlfriend, a room full of girls, and chooses the center.
A Brunei student posted anonymously in an online chat room, saying that the Crown Prince had a girlfriend. Before getting engaged to Saleh, he broke up with the girl on the grounds that her girlfriend was too ordinary to be a suitable future queen. As a result, the girl left Brunei in a hurry. However, the publisher himself had to leave Brunei in a hurry.
As for the acquaintance with Saleh, it is reported that the Crown Prince saw Saleh among the invited virgins at his 30th birthday party, and they decided to get married after a short contact.
It will cost a lot to miss the Asian Games temporarily.
65438+ 10 In June, Crown Prince Bila was unable to attend the Asian Games in Busan, South Korea. After the hotel room booked for 10 was cancelled, he still paid the full fee of $45,000, which shows his generosity.
According to the manager of the Haeundae Hotel in Busan at that time, the Crown Prince had booked 22 sets of guests, including the presidential suite, to watch the Busan Asian Games. However, this arrangement conflicted with other schedules, and the Crown Prince finally canceled the reservation. This made the hotel staff very disappointed.
To the staff's little comfort, although the hotel stipulated that 50% of the price compensation should be paid for the cancellation of the reservation, Crown Prince Bila actually paid the hotel fee in full. However, the restaurant did not enjoy this "pie falling from the sky" exclusively. They let Brunei journalists who came to cover the Asian Games enjoy the generosity of the Crown Prince.
She is famous for her elegance and wisdom.
17 years old, Saleh's father is from Brunei, and his mother Susanna Abby was born in a village outside Zurich, Switzerland. She was a nurse. In the 1970s, when they were studying in London, they met and fell in love. Abby later went to work in Brunei.
Saleh, their third child, is still in school. According to the official wedding brochure issued by Brunei, Saleh's father is the manager of a public works department, and Saleh himself is "known among teachers and friends for his elegance, wisdom and positive attitude".
The princess is a secret girl. The student didn't know that she was getting married.
On May 6th, 2008, when biology teacher Arul Baka turned on the TV, the woman who was about to marry Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah was so familiar. He said, "Wait, this is my student!" "
Arul, a 28-year-old teacher at the Faculty of Science of Bandar Seri Begawan University, has 12 students in his class. He said that when he and the students in his class heard the comforting news, their first feeling was "shock".
Why is this happening? It turns out that Sarah Saleh is a dull girl. She never revealed anything to her classmates, and before and after the news of the wedding was made public, she was calm and had no emotional ups and downs, at least on the surface.