PARIS: Throughout his journey to France to fulfill President Emmanuel Macron, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is staying at a lavish chateau dubbed “the world’s most costly house” when he bought it in 2015.
The Chateau Louis XIV in Louveciennes outdoors Paris is a new-build mansion supposed to imitate the extravagant luxurious of the close by Versailles Palace, as soon as the seat of the French royal household.
The 7,000-square-metre property was purchased by an undisclosed purchaser in 2015 for 275 million euros ($300 million on the time), main Fortune journal to name it “the world’s most costly house.”
Bin Salman, 36, was reported two years’ later by The New York Occasions to be the final word proprietor by way of a sequence of shell firms.
Native authorities officers confirmed to AFP that the controversial inheritor to the Saudi throne was staying on the property forward of his dinner with Macron afterward Thursday.
Reporters outdoors the perimeter wall noticed safety personnel in fits guarding the doorway and a big police presence, together with half a dozen autos.
Macron and bin Salman had been set to fulfill on the extra modest Elysee presidential palace later Thursday for talks that critics in France view as inappropriate.
Bin Salman was judged by US intelligence to have authorised the ugly homicide and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi within the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
However after 4 years as a global pariah, the prince is being courted by Western leaders once more as they urgently search contemporary power provides to switch misplaced Russian manufacturing.
In a twist of historical past, the Chateau Louis XIV was constructed by Khashoggi’s cousin Emad Khashoggi who runs a luxurious property growth enterprise in France.
The chateau incorporates a nightclub, a gold-leafed fountain, a cinema, in addition to an underwater glass chamber within the moat that resembles an enormous aquarium with white leather-based sofas.
Photographs on the web site of Emad Khashoggi’s firm, Cogemad, additionally present a wine cellar, though alcohol is strictly prohibited in Saudi Arabia.
Chateau Louis XIV was inbuilt 2009 after a Nineteenth-century fortress on the plot was bulldozed.
Bin Salman’s extravagant spending since rising as the principle powerbroker in Saudi Arabia has repeatedly made headlines.
The son of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud purchased a $500-million yacht in 2015 and was additionally reported to be the thriller purchaser of a $450-million Leonardo da Vinci portray in 2017.
The latter buy has been formally denied.
The Chateau Louis XIV in Louveciennes outdoors Paris is a new-build mansion supposed to imitate the extravagant luxurious of the close by Versailles Palace, as soon as the seat of the French royal household.
The 7,000-square-metre property was purchased by an undisclosed purchaser in 2015 for 275 million euros ($300 million on the time), main Fortune journal to name it “the world’s most costly house.”
Bin Salman, 36, was reported two years’ later by The New York Occasions to be the final word proprietor by way of a sequence of shell firms.
Native authorities officers confirmed to AFP that the controversial inheritor to the Saudi throne was staying on the property forward of his dinner with Macron afterward Thursday.
Reporters outdoors the perimeter wall noticed safety personnel in fits guarding the doorway and a big police presence, together with half a dozen autos.
Macron and bin Salman had been set to fulfill on the extra modest Elysee presidential palace later Thursday for talks that critics in France view as inappropriate.
Bin Salman was judged by US intelligence to have authorised the ugly homicide and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi within the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
However after 4 years as a global pariah, the prince is being courted by Western leaders once more as they urgently search contemporary power provides to switch misplaced Russian manufacturing.
In a twist of historical past, the Chateau Louis XIV was constructed by Khashoggi’s cousin Emad Khashoggi who runs a luxurious property growth enterprise in France.
The chateau incorporates a nightclub, a gold-leafed fountain, a cinema, in addition to an underwater glass chamber within the moat that resembles an enormous aquarium with white leather-based sofas.
Photographs on the web site of Emad Khashoggi’s firm, Cogemad, additionally present a wine cellar, though alcohol is strictly prohibited in Saudi Arabia.
Chateau Louis XIV was inbuilt 2009 after a Nineteenth-century fortress on the plot was bulldozed.
Bin Salman’s extravagant spending since rising as the principle powerbroker in Saudi Arabia has repeatedly made headlines.
The son of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud purchased a $500-million yacht in 2015 and was additionally reported to be the thriller purchaser of a $450-million Leonardo da Vinci portray in 2017.
The latter buy has been formally denied.