stackyFACTSThe ultimate out-of-touch billionaire move is roleplaying poverty for fun. The French queen ordered the construction of the 'Hameau de la Reine,' complete with perfumed sheep, where she could dress up in expensive peasant clothing and churn butter for thirty minutes before going back to her insanely opulent palace life.
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