The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

This week I'm going to be publishing some of my favorite episodes from 2021,

and I will be back again with brand new episodes on Monday, January 3rd, 2022.

If I was to ask you what the wealthiest royal family in Europe was,

your first guess would probably be the British royal family.

But it isn't.

It also isn't the Royal Families in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway,

or even the wealthy enclave of Monaco.

The richest Royal Family is also the unlikliest.

Learn more about Lictenstein and how their family got so wealthy and why the country even exists

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. everything everywhere daily. I'm guessing that most of you listening to this have heard of Liechtenstein, but I'd also guess that most of you have never been there.

It's a tiny country, one of the smallest in the world, sandwiched between Switzerland and Austria.

It is one of only two countries in the world that are doubly landlocked. In other words, it's

surrounded by countries that are also landlocked themselves. The other one is

Uzbekistan. I remember hiking up in the Swiss Alps and the Sardona region

once and my guide pointed down in the

valley and said you can see Lictenstein from here and by that he didn't mean we could

see Lictenstein territory from where we were he meant we could literally see the entire country from our vantage point.

Lictonstein is only about 15 miles north the south and 5 miles across east to west.

And it is a population of about 39,000 people. As with many of the

microstates in Europe, it has origins that go back before the wave of

national unification which happened in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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