Lauwiner tells FRANCE 24 that the local authorities who are keen to stop him are just jealous they didn’t think of it first.
King Jonas I, as he calls himself, declared himself Switzerland’s “symbolic” monarch with a 2019 coronation in Bern’s Nydegg Church that was attended by several members of the clergy.
Lauwiner, a resident of the city of Burgdorf in Bern who also works full-time at a pharmaceutical company, was dressed in full royal regalia, including a bejewelled 18-carat-gold crown.
Since then, he has acquired many of the attributes of a modern monarch: For media interviews he wears gilded military dress, he has an official website and an “imperial bank” with a “half sovereign coin”, and he is often accompanied by a 10-person-strong contingent “for protection”.
I wonder if he will make a state visit to the USA. Could King Jonas I give the president ideas?
