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Unit 1 Billionaires

There are really two classes of wealthy people. Millionaires are rich. Billionaires are super rich! However, determining a person’s wealth is not always easy.

The wealth of a king or queen, for example, is based on the wealth and property of the nation instead of the personal wealth and property of the king or queen. For some kings and queen, it is difficult to tell these two kinds of wealth apart.

The richest member of a royal family is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud. His personal wealth was estimated in 2003 to be $18 billion. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is often thought to be the richest woman in the world. However, when the public property of England is ruled out, her personal money and property seem rather small. Queen Elizabeth II’s personal wealth was estimated in 2003 to be $397 million. This was less than J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, who was estimated to be worth $444 million.

In the United States, there were 222 people reported to be billionaires in 2003. The richest of these is Bill Gates, worth at least $41 billion, who made his money by starting the company Microsoft. Mr. Gates was only

twenty years old when he first helped to set up the company in 1976. He was a billionaire by the time be was thirty-one.

Mr. Gates may seem young to be so rich, but other people have made a loot of money at even younger ages. Other young people who have struck it rich include Jackie Coogan (1914-1984) and Shirley Temple (1928-). Both of these child actors made over a million dollars acting in movies before they were fourteen years old. However, the youngest billionaire is Albert von Thurn und Taxis of Germany, who, in 2001, inherited a billion dollars when he turned eighteen!

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