Apart from anything else, the A380 did make Barron excited.
"Your Highness, this is my wife, Amina."
Walid introduced the young and beautiful women around him.
"Hello, beautiful princess, it's an honor to meet you."
Knowing that Arabs have certain taboos, especially regarding women, Barron only praised the princess politely. When she extended her hand, he lightly shook it and separated it immediately.
It can be said that compared with other Saudi women, Amina is indeed more individual, and Walid is more open-minded, or in other words, he pampers her...
During this meeting, Amina did not wear a veil, but showed her real face, which is rarely seen in Saudi Arabia.
Amina Al-Kawil is 21 years old, 28 years younger than Walid.
Amina is Prince Waleed's third wife. Although polygamy is allowed in Saudi Arabia, Prince Waleed's ideas are rather special here. He believes that two people who no longer love each other should separate, so every time he pays his ex-wife a considerable "breakup fee" before divorcing and remarrying.
However, although Amina is known as the most beautiful princess of Saudi Arabia, in Barron's opinion, judging from appearance and figure alone, Alia beside him is even better than the princess in front of him.
In order to get closer to them, Baron used Arabic when talking to Walid and his wife.
Her husband told her that when they first met in London, the young Duke of England could only speak two or three simple sentences in Arabic...
By contrast, Barron can now chat with them in fluent Arabic. At first, Amina thought he had studied Arabic for many years and was very surprised.
"Maybe I have some talent for languages, and I have to thank my Arabic teacher, Ms. Alia."
When Barron said this, both Walid and Amina looked at Alia beside Barron.
Ivanta will meet Barron at the next stop, so Barron did not have any other female companions at tonight's dinner, and brought Alia with him.
"Miss Alia, are you also Arab?"
Perhaps because she saw Alia next to Barron was not wearing a veil either, Amina looked at her with admiration in her eyes and asked in a kind tone.
"Yes, Princess, I am three-quarters Arab."
Alia did not say that her ancestors were from a holy family. After all, the grandfather of Prince Walid established Saudi Arabia after driving the Hashemite family out.
In Saudi Arabia, Walid is considered to be relatively tolerant towards women, which can be seen from Princess Amina. Therefore, he does not care about Alia, a beautiful woman of Arab descent who neither wears a veil nor even believes in Islam.
Speaking of which, Walid first met Princess Amina when she was 18 years old...
Amina, who was still in college at the time, was chosen by the school to interview Waleed. Initially, Waleed only gave her 10 minutes, but during the interview, Waleed was deeply attracted by the beautiful girl without a veil in front of him. The original 10-minute interview was dragged into 2 hours.
Soon after, the two fell in love. Amina asked to marry Walid after graduation, to which Walid agreed, and he even attended her graduation ceremony.
Maybe the reason why Walid dotes on Amina so much is not only because she is a pretty vase, but also because Amina, who was raised by her mother who divorced on her own initiative, has a more independent soul. In an environment like Saudi Arabia, it does take courage for a woman to choose to divorce on her own initiative.
For example, after marrying Walid, Amina did not stop showing up in public like other women in the Middle Eastern royal family - just like Princess Hudda of the Dubai royal family, who has not left the Dubai Palace for 25 years since she married Sheikh in 1979.
However, Amina, who is rebellious and bold, has never been willing to be Prince Waleed's canary since she married him. Instead, she has always followed him around, hoping to have her own career and grow up with her husband.
Amina devoted a lot of time to charity and established the "Waleed Foundation" in the name of her husband, which won Waleed a lot of good reputation.
Perhaps it was because Alia had more Westernized ideas than most Arab women. Therefore, when Barron was discussing business with Walid, she had a good chat with Alia and they seemed to get along very well.
What Walid talked about with Barron was investment and finance.
Prince Waleed's investment company is called Kingdom Holding Company. Although he has invested in many industries, his most important focus is still banks.
In addition to Saudi United Commercial Bank, Walid is also the largest individual shareholder of Citigroup, and these assets account for more than half of his total assets.
In addition, he actively acquired shares in many other banks...
At the same time, Kingdom Holdings' investments include real estate, supermarket chains, telecommunications companies, television stations, hotels and other industries.
Interestingly, Barron is involved in almost all of these industries.
What's even more interesting is that Kingdom Holdings also owns shares in Amazon and Apple…
So Walid and Baron still have a lot to talk about in these business areas.
Prince Walid said that he would hold a grand welcome banquet for Barron's arrival at the Kingdom Palace in the center of Riyadh two days later.
Prince Waleed seemed rather secretive about the content of the banquet and did not reveal it to Barron in advance.
But looking at his expression, he looked like he was expecting to surprise everyone...
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Sure enough, as the richest man in the Middle East, Walid's achievements were indeed something Barron had never expected.
Two days later, he and his entourage attended the welcome banquet held by Walid in the palace of the kingdom. Although the banquet was decorated extremely gorgeously and beautifully, and the food was also very exquisite...
But these are not enough to surprise Barron...
What really made Barron couldn't help but shout out "I failed" in his heart was the performance session after the welcome banquet began.
Because those who appeared on the stage included Janet Jackson, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Eminem, Linkin Park, Beyonce, Avril Lavigne, Black Eyed Peas...
If this list is published in full, I'm afraid it will be questioned as a waste of words...
But the fact is that Prince Alwaleed has invited more than 30 of the most famous singers in the world!
You know, these are the hottest singers now!
Later, Baron learned that Walid had only spent three days to contact the other party, and then sent his own private plane to directly pick up these singers to Riyadh, and then gave Baron a big "surprise"!
Each of these people sang one or two of their representative works on the spot, making this welcome banquet a small concert!
Even Baron, who has experienced two lives and is well-informed, was shocked by Prince Walid's generosity, let alone the other people who came to attend the banquet...
Anyway, the cheers in the venue never stopped since the beginning. With more than a hundred guests in total, it almost turned this place into a large-scale crazy party.