Despite the challenges, we’re told, he idolized his son so much Telling an angry red head to calm down works about as well shirt  he kept the boy unaware of the typical sufferings of life for 29 years – from infancy through marriage at 16, and then for more than a decade as a husband, father and mature prince. The prince was unknowingly imprisoned within the walls of the palace all that time, and under orders of his father, the palace entourage shielded him from all signs of human suffering. Now that’s weird. A real life Truman Show. Why would an oligarch do such a thing? Oligarchs are hoarders. All the rich people I know spend a disproportionate amount of their life worried about maintaining their wealth.