Monarchs with Conflict of Interests

From what I have read the founders of Samsung were related with the Joseon dynasty, could we have a royal house or royal family in any country owning a Multinational Company and get away with it.

Please do move it to chat if appropriate.
 
This is almost the status of the Pope today, as he functions as both Pontifex and King of the Vatican City. The Church is a nonprofit in most countries, and the Pope is not hereditary, but otherwise it's the same legal situation.

In an absolute monarchy, there's really no such thing as a conflict of interest when the monarch's involved.
 
This is almost the case in the UK today - Duchy Originals Ltd, a company set up by Prince Charles (though formally owned by one of his charities) in 1990 as a prestige supplier of organic foodstuffs is now a £200M business that trades in over 30 countries. Nobody has a serious issue with this, though it probably helps that all profits are ploughed back into the prince's charities.
 
I thought this thread was going to be about conflicts of interest between countries.

Like if Hannover and Britain (which were both ruled by the Georgian kings) in the 18th century had somehow gone to war with each other. That would have been a conflict of interest, since they had the same king.
 
Yeah, its really really hard to be poor when you're descendant from royalty. The poorest monarch in Europe is Harald V of Norway, at around 100 million in personal fortune the richest are probably the Thai king at 30 billion; though different if you go by more absolute monarchies like Saudi Arabia. Its hard to say how wealthy the Saudis really are, how much wealth can they appropriate before the clergy/other princes get grumpy?
 
From what I have read the founders of Samsung were related with the Joseon dynasty, could we have a royal house or royal family in any country owning a Multinational Company and get away with it.

Please do move it to chat if appropriate.

A king/dictator is almost always subject to a conflict of interest between his own interests (staying in power, having a comfortable life) on the one hand and the "common good" of the nation (or at least what he might think to be the common good) on the other.
 
Its hard to say how wealthy the Saudis really are, how much wealth can they appropriate before the clergy/other princes get grumpy?

The Saudi royal family is an example of tyranny, hypocrisy and deceit.

Only earlier this week, I read a hadith which says that the Prophet Muhammad asked his wife where the gold was. She replied that she still had it. Muhammad told her to give the gold away to the poor.

There are countless other examples expressing similar charitable sentiments and warning against worldly wealth.

It's difficult to square this approach to money with the behaviour of the self-declared 'guardians of the holy places' and their kleptocratic regime.
 
To really avoid any conflict interests there should be laws preventing leaders of state to even own shares. That is impossible.
 
I thought this thread was going to be about conflicts of interest between countries.

Like if Hannover and Britain (which were both ruled by the Georgian kings) in the 18th century had somehow gone to war with each other. That would have been a conflict of interest, since they had the same king.
Didn't Pakistan and India go to war when both were part of the Commonwealth and had the english monarch as head of state?
It was the first Kashmir war I think.
 
Didn't Pakistan and India go to war when both were part of the Commonwealth and had the english monarch as head of state?
It was the first Kashmir war I think.

It was. For that matter there were also the Bishops' Wars in the late 1630s, although whether they should count as yet another round of Anglo-Scottish Wars, or an internal rebellion against Charles as King of Scotland is questionable.
 
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