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Prince Charles Net Worth
Charles Philip Arthur George's Net Worth as of 2024
$1.35 Billion
Charles Philip Arthur George, to give him his complete birth name, was born on the 14th November, 1948 in Buckingham Palace, London, UK. He is the Prince of Wales, the first in line of succession to the throne after Queen Elizabeth II. He is also recognized as Duke of Cornwall in South-West England and as Duke of Rothesay in Scotland. Prince Charles is the oldest and longest serving heir apparent in the entire history of England, having been ‘in waiting’ since 1952.
So just how rich is Prince Charles, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that the Prince of Wales is a very wealthy person, having a net worth of over $1.35 billion. It has been reported that he earned more than $31.3 million from his estates in 2016, which is his ‘salary’, as he does not draw a stipend from the public purse. His assets include the $1.1 billion valued Duchy of Cornwall estate, and other properties.
Prince Charles Net Worth $1.35 Billion
Prince was born to parents Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II; his grandparents were Queen Elizabeth and King George VI. He was educated at Cheam and Gordonstoun Schools, and also at the Timbertop campus of Geelong Grammar School which is located in Victoria, Australia. In 1970, he graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree in archaeology, anthropology and history, following which in accordance with family tradition, he served in Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy from 1971 to1977, qualifying and serving as a helicopter pilot, and commanding the minehunter HMS Bronington before leaving the service. He later flew aircraft of the Queen’s Flight, but gave up flying after an accident in 1994.
Prince Charles has a variety of social and humanitarian interests. He is the founder of The Prince’s Trust charity foundation (1976–present) which supports mostly disadvantaged young people over a large range of training programs. He has actually established over 16 foundations, and in addition, he supports and donates to other charitable organizations, and the Prince even serves as a president of honour in many of them.
Furthermore, Charles supports organic farming and tries to attract public attention to climate change. The Prince also takes care of historical buildings, and his efforts to support nature conservation, organic farming and gardening have been recognized through numerous awards, including Global Environmental Citizen Award 2007, National Agricultural Award 2010, Teddy Roosevelt International Conservation Award 2015 and many others. Additionally he is an advocate of alternative medicine, although that remains a private chain of thought.
Prince Charles is also a recipient of various titles, honorary appointments, decorations, and awards, some as the heir apparent to the throne.
Regarding the less-than-private life of Prince Charles, he is known to have married twice. His first wife was Lady Diana Spencer, known as Diana, Princess of Wales, who gave birth to two sons: Prince William, Duke of Cambridge was born in 1982 and Prince Henry of Wales in 1984. Charles and Diana divorced after their love affairs were widely discussed and made public in 1996. Diana was involved in a car crash a year later, which resulted of multiple injuries from which she died. High attention was paid to the second marriage of Prince Charles; in 2005, he married Camilla Parker Bowles who now has the title of Duchess of Cornwall. Prince Charles now has two grandchildren born to William and his wife Kate – Prince George of Cambridge born in 2013 and Princess Charlotte of Cambridge born in 2015. The Prince and Camilla’s official residence is Clarence House in London, and he has two private homes, at Birkhall near Balmoral Castle in Scotland, and Highgrove House in Gloucestershire.
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Danny Bonaduce Net Worth
Dante Daniel Bonaduce was born on 13 August 1959, in Broomall, Pennsylvania USA, of Italian (father) and English (mother) descent. Danny Bonaduce is a well-known actor, TV and radio personality, wrestler and producer, perhaps still best known for his role of Danny in the popular ’70s TV series “The Partridge Family”.
So just how rich is Danny Bonaduce? Danny’s estimated net worth is now over $2.5 million dollars, accumulated over more than 40 years in various elements of the entertainment industry.
Danny Bonaduce Net Worth $2.5 Million
Danny Bonaduce rose to fame early in his life, when cast in “The Partridge Family”, in which Bonaduce, who was 11 at the time, played a bass-playing member of the family. The show was a huge success and brought the whole cast international fame. At that time, however, his personal life was far from glamorous; his co-workers noticed that Danny would often show up covered in bruises, and he confessed that he was abused by his father, script-writer and producer Joe Bonaduce. Members of the cast did their best to secure Bonaduce from his abusive family environment, but his difficult childhood and early fame eventually took its toll. The show ended in 1974 and the young actor was left with enormous amounts of money, a great start to his net worth, but no emotional stability. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s the actor struggled with drug abuse which led to several arrests. His later addiction to alcohol was documented in the reality TV series “Breaking Bonaduce”. The cameras captured one of the most difficult period of his life, as he struggled with both alcohol and drug abuse and tried to save his marriage at the same time. Bonaduce also told his life story in his autobiography “Random Acts of Badness”, which also added to his net worth.
Luckily, the former child star managed to put his life back together, and continued to have a successful career in Hollywood. After appearing in numerous TV shows, such as “The Soup”, “I Know My Kid’s a Star” and “The Adam Carolla Show”, and then he started his own radio show. Thanks to his great sense of humour and distinct voice, he was successful on radio career in the 80’s. From 1994 to 1996 he hosted his own radio show “The Danny Bonaduce Show” on The Loop WLUP AM/FM. Later he became a host of a morning show on WKQI. Since November 2011.Bonaduce has hosted a morning talk/music show on radio station KZOK-FM in Seattle. Radio has been the most consistent source of income for Danny, managing to maintain a reasonable net worth.
In addition to being an actor and a radio host, Bonaduce is also a semi-professional wrestler, which has also helped to increase his popularity and net worth. He has wrestled many other public personalities and professional athletes in numerous charity events, the majority of which ended in Bonaduce’s triumph. He was also a part of the “Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling” show.
In his persoanl life, Danny Bonaduce has been married three times, firstly to Setsuko Hattori(1985-88) and then to Gretchen Hillmer(1990-2007) with whom he has two children. Their complicated marriage was well documented on “Breaking Bonaduce”. He started dating his third wife Amy Railsback in 2007, and the couple married in November 2010. Bonaduce has admitted more than once that marriage has helped him to quit booze, and completely changed his life.
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Robert Kirkman Net Worth
Robert Kirkman was born on 30 November 1978, in Richmond, Kentucky USA. He is perhaps most widely recognized as the creator of “The Walking Dead”, both the comic series and some of the episodes of the famous horror TV series adaptation.
So how rich exactly is Robert Kirkman? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $20 million, most of his wealth being accumulated through his work as a comic book author, plus being one of the writers of the episodes of TV series “The Walking Dead” has also significantly raised his net worth.
Robert Kirkman Net Worth $20 Million
Robert Kirkman wrote his first successful comic book entitled “Battle Pope” in 2000 with the help of artist Tony Moore. It was a parody of the superhero genre mixed with Biblical symbolism and dark humor. Despite its controversial themes, the comic book ran successfully and in 2005 was reprinted by “Image Comics” in color and in 2008 “Battle Pope” became an animated series on “Spike” TV channel.
The second successful Kirkman’s project was a story about a superhero entitled “Invincible” which he created in 2003 with artist Cory Walker. In the same year he released another comic which raised Kirkman’s success and net worth to a whole new level. There were some problems when Kirkman tried to publish the first issues of “The Walking Dead” as zombies weren’t seen as something that audiences might enjoy. However, Robert managed to sell the first issue and the comic gained instant popularity. In 2010, “The Walking Dead” won the Eisner Award in the category of “Best Continuing series”. In the same year, the first episode of “The Walking Dead” apocalyptic horror TV series adaptation was released on AMC. Not surprisingly, Kirkman was chosen to work as one of the writers for the episodes of this show. In addition, as show gained increasing popularity, Kirkman has published three non-graphic novels of “The Walking Dead”, which were entitled “The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor” (in 2011), “The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury” (in 2012) and “The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor” (in 2013). Currently, Kirkman is one of the co-authors to the spin-off horror TV show “Fear The Walking Dead” which should be released in the summer of 2015.
In 2004, Kirkman started working for one of the biggest comic book publishing companies Marvel Comics, which also boosted Kirkman’s already impressive net worth. Kirkman is known for working on such popular comic book titles as “Avengers Disassembled”, “Jubilee”, “Fantastic Four”, “Ultimate X-Men”, “Marvel Team-Up” and “Irredeemable Ant-Man”. However, in 2008, Kirkman ended his associations with Marvel Comics and became one of the partners of Image Comics. Currently, Kirkman is working on a science fiction feature film entitled “AIR”, which is scheduled to be released in 2015 and will be the first film produced by Robert Kirkman.
In his personal life, Robert Kirkman is married and has two children, one of whom is named Peter Parker, after the famous superhero Spider-Man.
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