Waking Up A Real Bond Author

It is 5:54 A.M. July 24, 2024. Today I awoke as a legitimate James Bond author with credibility I have never owned in my life. I have won an……Award! I lie in bed making – The List!

I thank Spooky Noodles for believing in me since 1996, and, I thank Cees Roozemond who allowed me to post on his Facebook because he believed I was for real, while his daughter, belevd I was a dangerous old lech – stalking her.

Lara Roozemond was my solace during my, and America’s Darkest Hour. She rode my recuse – against her will. I used her, day after day, to lay low the Bad Guys! A year ago I brought her to Sandford, where her bodyguard encouraged her to get back in the saddle. It had been too long since she took, that great tumble! To Lara and Cees, this hand across the water…..salutes you!

John Presco

Author of ‘The Royal Janitor’

(Mr. Presco has to accept this reward with his left hand, because he broke his right hand hitting a wall after the love of his life confessed she had betrayed him with a German Jetsetter in a club in Hollywood. John, at seventeen, ran away from his chance to be a success, in La La Land. Raymond Burr invited him to dinner. Mr. Burr loved to cook – I heard!)

I danced the Bolero for Marilyn – with my shirt off! It was her sixteenth birthday. I found a rusty pair of scissors buried in the dirty. I restored it. I didn’t have a dime to my name! He drove a T-Bird!

Last but t least, I thank Yulia Rose, who stole the spotlight from Rosemond. For two years I suffer with you, the pain of being split in two. Divided Loyalties, born in another Nation, that has gone insane. You Julia bring the Rose of Peace, trample in the dust of useless war. Thank you fir loving your boyfriend, with, a Immortal Love!

To our first love – we salute you!

https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/yulia-rose.html

“There are conflicting accounts of James Bond’s birthplace, including West Berlin and Zürich. In Casino Royale, Daniel Craig’s passport states that Bond was born in West Berlin on April 13, 1968. However, Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice establishes Bond as a Scot born in Glencoe to Andrew Bond and his Swiss wife Monique Delacroix. Charlie Higson’s Young Bond books also state that Bond was born in Zürich.”

https://www.acteursbelangen.nl/acteur/lara-roozemond/

Wild Animal on ‘The Farm’

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press

https://rec.stanford.edu/visit/stanford-red-barn-equestrian-center

The Royal Janitor

by

John Presco

Chapter: Red Barn Arena

When Miriam Starfish Christling brought her big foot down on Stanford’s horse arena, she raised a small cloud of dust. This was deliberates, She had never been around horses, and she was testing them. She and her parents learned to walk as soft as a cougar. They would stroll naked in the woods around Mount Shasta, hoping to make contact with a Yeti. They heard a Big Foot on several hikes, but failed to spot one. These walks would bring them close to nirvana. Almost every horse in the arena reacted with snorts, and whinnies, their ears pointing at the source of the threat. One young woman was almost thrown out her saddle. Victoria was correct in making her bodyguard leave her spear in the limousine, or there would have been a stampede.

Spotting the framed photos on Commie Stuttmeister’s wall in the Old California Barrel Company, Victoria asked why he owned horses. Victor’s ancestors invested in the ranch Count Cipriani owned in Belmont and Palo Alto. He had driven a herd of cattle to this property the Rothschild bankers invested in. When the Count was made President of the Kingdom of Italy, all the hidden kingdoms in the world, shifted like the San Andreas Fault. The affects are still felt today. There are new lines drawn in the sand.

Victoria didn’t want to got to The Farm and ride. After her great fall, she was afraid she would get killed. Starfish was disgusted with her husband. There was a loud argument at the end of the old Belmont pier, that the killer for BAD – won! She began to recitee all the dangerous men – and women – that she dispatched.

The horses could smell blood on the beast with the narrow hips and tapered back, where from her wide Nordic shoulders swung these long arms that moved like the wild animal in that famous film, Victoria borrowed riding clothes, and saddled up a Stuttmeister horse. She chose the most spirited. When she came prancing out of th Red Barn, her horse reared up when it came onto the arena. Starfish gasped as her husband struggled to point the horse at the first jump. With a kick to it’s rib, the horse came charging in a cloud of dust. Victoria went for the tallest steeple – and she cleared it with room to spare! The Animal squealed with joy, causing the horses at a distance to sound an alarm!

“Yeti?”

Cougar!”

To be continued

I had my lunch with my Blue Russian out on the balcony. I had just seen Mike Pence announce he is running by going after transsexuals’ had just found “The Farm” and was inspired to compose again. It was a sign from the Rose Barn. Here is Lara Roozemond who inspired the first chapters of the Royal Janitor. She is an actress. who rode Friesian horses. Ces Roozemond is the head breeder. Lara is the girl in pigtails at an award ceremony. I am authoring the firs Bond book starring a woman. I suspect Lara is kin to Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor..

Into The Sawtelle

Posted on December 11, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press

Into The Sawtelle

by

Vincent Rosamond Rice

I cried as I watched Spielberg’s West Side Story – a good deal! When this new version finally got going – there was no escaping – the pain! I knew what was coming. I knew my Shakespeare. This story is – gripping. Maria was perfectly cast. Her large eyes were two lenses into two worlds. Natalie Woods had those big eyes.

I hope we hear all the casting details – someday – and the argument Steven had with the Art Director. There had to be many – heated discussions – because I could not tell the temperature of New York – seconds into this very good movie! In the original, you knew it is summertime from way up in the helicopter. Then – smack – you are thrown on the street. NEVER put signs and words to read at the beginning of a movie. We don’t go to the movies to get a lesson. Our tears – are full of lessons. We go to this movie – to cry!

When my family first moved to West Los Angeles, I did the painting of our street, Midvale. We lived a hundred yards from Santa Monica Boulevard. It was a hundred degrees for several days straight. I deduced Rosemary moved her four children – to hell!

I was the best dancer at Oakland High. About fifty students formed a circle around me as I did my choregraphed version of The Pony. I danced for a half-hour before school, and when I got home. At sixteen, I danced the Bolero for Marilyn on her sixteenth Birthday. I took my shirt off, because I knew I was going to sweat allot. My love had stolen my large painting of Jesus walking across the hot desert. I was a great walker. I seldom had money for the bus. I would put myself in a trance – and create! I wrote poems, and philosophized. I was always in a movie.

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Rush by Lara Roozemond

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press

I got another poem by Roozemond in my e-mail. I sent her about five messages. She never responds. I gave her several feedbacks, but, they are not approved. The only response was to those three posts on her facebook, that she asked me to remove.

I think I got a great short story, where an old man is dying, and he chooses this beautiful woman to leave everything to. He knows all the producers in Hollywood, and they want her to come there and do several screen tests. But, she is in such a rush, so busy with her career, she never responds to anything.

The man dies, and leaves everything to an animal shelter. Before he kicks the bucket, he authors the most beautiful farewell poem ever written. It goes into her SPAM pile, where all his e-mails…….go!

She had read only half his first e-mail, and was going to read the rest, when she was not in such a rush. She meant to put it in her save file, but hit the SPAM button instead. From then on her computer recognized the miscreant, and – SPAMMED HIS ASS – but good!

Jon

P.S. Did I just write Lara a poem – she will never read?

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I am in a hurry because the pressure is high
I’m in a hurry because it has to be finished
I am in a hurry because I do not know what to do
I am in a hurry because I have to result
I am in a hurry because everybody is in a hurry
I am in a hurry because I am stuck in a current
I am in a hurry because I have to meet expectations
I am in a hurry because I am wasting my time
I am in a hurry because it is almost tomorrow
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I’m in a hurry because I do nothing
I am in a hurry because time is in a hurry
I am in a hurry because it is evening
I am in a hurry because I am not satisfied yet
I am in a hurry because I am in a hurry
I am in a hurry because I am tired

I’m in a hurry

I tired

Flight – Lara Roozemond

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press

This is a poem from Lara sent to my e-mail on April 17th. I just found it. Are you getting a message, a cry for “HELP!” ?

No one responds to her poetry, but me. I first sent her a url to this blog when I did. I think she thought it was spam, thought that was all she deserves. It is said life imitates art. The top pic came with the poem. It has occurred to me that if I died, I might be….an angel.

Jon

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Flight
I swim
I swim in a sea of rules
I get stuck in a safety net of fear
Words are shooting through space
Tears are building up
Fires will go flames
Bomb explodes
Hard noise, limited visibility
No oxygen
Run in danger

I run
I run without a final destination
I am hunting but without protection
I get out of breath but I do not stop
I am tired but I ignore that
I’m going on

I’m going on
I do not have to stand still
I need a new adventure
I need confirmation
I have to keep hunting
I have to adrenaline
I have to continue

I flee
and I know why
I’m going to keep the secret
I’m not telling you
You do not know
It does not do anything to you
I’m not hurting you
You do not feel any pain
I hurt myself
I feel pain
I am in pain
I am in pain
au
Stop at au

I stop
I stop for now
I return
I feel small
I want to be myself
I do not want to be myself
I’m stuck
I’m stuck
I’m stuck
I’m stuck
Back to the sea
I’m going to swim again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Bond

Jeff Bezos owns a huge chunk of the money making James Bond Myth. But, I am kin to Ian Fleming via my cousin, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor. I have several Bond books in the works. I chose Lara Roozemond to be my star – and new muse! She inspires me. Who inspires Jeff – who can not get his super yacht past a drawbridge in Rotterdam.

Several years ago, I cast Lara as Helen – who launched a thousand ships. The Flemish People have a horse in the race. May I suggest Jeff make Cees Roozemond’s horse dream come to, and, make his daughter a star, or, a Princess Rose. Then he can take The Rose of Holland for a world cruise in order to let the Democracy Loving People know Holland will never forget, or, forgive!

Old Hollywood had a tradition of Courting Beautiful Starlets! Why should the Dutch People bow down as the Oceanco – passes! Go see Ceez, Jeff. And apologize to the people who mastered the sea – and the Friesian Horse!

Not a rose

Nor a horse

But a whisper

in the wind

Our Lady

passes

John Presco

President: Royal Rosamond Press

“It’s the only route to the sea,” a spokesperson for the mayor of Rotterdam told AFP, confirming the news of the bridge’s dismantling. According to Dutch news, ship builder Oceanco convinced the city to dismantle part of the bridge. The Rotterdam mayor’s spokesperson also confirmed that Bezos would pay for the dismantling and rebuilding of the bridge.

In November, Oceano’s chairman, Omani businessman Dr. Mohammed Al Barwani, spoke of the 127 meter (416 feet) sailing yacht the company was working on without mentioning Bezos. Later, Boat International identified the 127m yacht as the one commissioned by the Amazon founder.

Victoria Bond – Born April 17th.

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press

Victoria Bond was born on April 17th. This is like a movie within a movie. When I called Lara ‘My Wing’ I wondered if I had called her my angel…..who is reborn.

Jon

Tragically She killed herself on 3rd July 1965 aged only 35, overdosing on sleeping pills. When someone dies young it is always a sad event, what is most sad about Dyer is how she seems to have been forgotten. Sources for this entry are very few and far between. Maybe she will be rediscovered and more light can be shed on this sad lady who had everything given to her, yet could not find peace and happiness.

Since the dawn of human history, there have been beautiful, rich women who seem to ‘have it all’. Some have created enduring ripples (Daisy Fellowes), some have chosen to look beyond their comfortable existence (Millicent Rogers). Even with the current batch of socialites, it can feel like they will linger forever (hardly a thought that fills me with joy….). Having said that, you can seem blessed but you can still be written out of history. Just look at the life, death and blackout of Nina Dyer.

Born Nina Sheila Dyer on 15 February 1930 in Sri Lanka. Her family were wealthy thanks to their tea plantation. Seeking more stimulation, Dyer moved first to London and then Paris for her modelling career.

Bond of Nebraska

Posted on July 30, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press

It has become clear to me I am an enlightened being who has given up hope of having enlightened offspring – on my side. I was the enlightened being in my natal family, and both my sisters borrowed my light. They are gone. My dark brother is hiding from his light-brother lest I see there no longer is a comparison, a contest. Both my Bond books are prophetic. With Biden saying the Red States must end their divisive ways, and get vaccinated for their own good – at least – my Bond of Nebraska has come true. These Reds want to be martyrs, and take down the Blues with them. They are aiding and abetting our enemies.

I look like a Brit in the pic above. I like to think Ian Easton and I would have gotten along. I have to an admit…..I am a agent. I am not just a author of a Bond novel – or two.

Republicans Are Wiping Themselves Out As Delta Variant Surges In Red Areas And GOP (politicususa.com) 

Republicans Are Stopping Biden By Not Getting Vaccinated. They Are Wiping Themselves Out

The Republican refusal to get vaccinated is not going to politically stop President Biden or put Donald Trump back into office. If anything, an ongoing pandemic crisis will give Biden even more motivation to push for the implementation of his agenda.

‘Obey the Rules’: China Warns U.K. After Royal Navy Enters Waters (msn.com)

“Earlier in July, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace inflamed existing tensions between the U.K. and China by insisting the Royal Navy would sail wherever international law permitted. The navy is permanently deploying two warships to the region after its new Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier and escort ships sail to Japan through the disputed Asian waters. “

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James of Nebraka

A Novel

by

John Presco

Relative of Ian Fleming Creator of James Bond

Copyright 2020

James went downstairs from the observation car, grabbed his bag from the storage compartment, and tapped his decorative cane rapidly as if this would cause the door to open so he could get off what a fellow passenger called;

“The Red Death Ride. That’s what we call it. We know this may be our last Cornhusker game. If we die in the new stadium they can’t fill, like in the good old days, that is a true blessing. We don’t want to die isolated in our beds, or, taken prisoner if a doomed nursing home!”

Mr. Bond let out a long breath as if he held it all the way from Chicago where he landed. He wanted to come back to America. He came to Lincoln in in 1970 to get his…

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Rotterdam Now Won’t Dismantle a Historic Bridge for Jeff Bezos’s Superyacht

The Amazon founder’s new sailing yacht is too tall to pass under the historic Koningshaven bridge.BY EMILY BURACKPUBLISHED: AUG 11, 2022

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Update 8/11/22: Rotterdam now won’t dismantle the Koningshaven Bridge for Jeff Bezos’s boat. After backlash, the ship’s builder Oceano decided to not move forward with a request to alter the bridge to sail the yacht. According to a Rotterdam deputy mayor, Oceano will “for the time being not request the environmental permit for the removal of the bridge.”

“We’re happy it’s not happening,” Marvin Biljoen, a councilman for GroenLinks, the Dutch Green Party, told the New York Times. “The bridge is a national monument, which shouldn’t be altered too much. That you could still do that with money anyway bothers us.”

Last week, Oceano quietly towed the yacht up the river in the early hours of the morning to a different shipyard, and now, Bezos’s boat is nearly completed. The YouTube channel Dutch Yachting shared a video of the boat, and it has three large masts completed:

Sounds like an opportunity to launch the Bond franchise into overdrive, right? There’s a catch: Amazon can’t just churn out countless Bond movies. Amazon will own only 50% of the spy franchise, while the other half will remain held by siblings Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who inherited the rights from their father, longtime Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli. Through EON, their UK production company, Broccoli and Wilson exert exacting control over the Bond franchise, deciding when to make a new Bond film, who should play the title role, and whether television spinoffs get greenlit (they’ve blocked such efforts in the past). According to The New York Times, “Broccoli and Wilson have final say over every line of dialogue, every casting decision, every stunt sequence, every marketing tie-in, every TV ad, poster and billboard.”

Order of the Netherlands Lion

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press

Lara Roozemond’s grandfather, is

Cornelis Marinus Lauwerens (Cees) Roozemond (Sint Philipsland, 23 May 1927 – Rotterdam, 18 November 2008) was a Dutch journalist, politician and director. He was, among other things, mayor of Alkmaar. Roozemond was a member of the Labor Party .

The Royal Friesian Stud Book

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press

I am a registered Republican – after my kin – John and Jessie Fremont. I will write Trump and inform him about the Royal Stud Book. He might want to buy a horsy or two.

Is Cees Roozemont into human genealogies, too? Does his daughter know this? Is she bored of her father’s interest, and thus, may not want us to get know each other?

I Found Roozemond’s Embodiment!

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press

Above is a woman knight entering a tournament.

On  July 12, 2018, at 12:35 P.M. I found the hidden Maiden Knight I have detected in Lara Roozemond for over three years! I believe Lara is the embodiment of Margaret d’Oisy. I have been trying to get Lara to pen an epic poem. Now, I know why! Jon ‘The Dreamer’ is a Psychic Reader?

I see Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, also. Hollywood has got to get involved and champion women in what can be titled propaganda movies. The fictional women’s tournament will make a great movie. Here is the companion movie to Black Panther. White males are being empowered by fascistic nationalism that always leads to war and ruin. Women and their children, suffer the most. This movie can get to the core of the European identity and culture that is very tribal and clannish. That Trump and Putin lead the crusade to wash this identity away, while taking away Women’s Rights in the Supreme Court, is aimed at creating a Massive Money World ruled by male oligarchs and American billionaires, who hate the People’s Champion – especially if she is a woman!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/‘whiplash’-inside-trump’s-nato-ambush-a-signature-spectacle-casting-allies-as-bit-players/ar-AAzZhEk?ocid=spartandhp

I began to receive Lara’s poems in my e-mail. I read things into her poems, which is the idea of poetry – in most cases! They are often historic-fiction and myth. I assumed she saw my blogs where I title her my muse. Models seek public attention, and have many followers. I exercised my poetic license and inquired if we were related. I got no response, and wondered if she saw this as a typical come-on. Did she not like my references to Christianity? Lara did not like my post I put on her facebook, and asked me to remove it. I believe she wants modeling work. She is studying acting.

My suggestion that I am destined to author the next Tolkien, and Bond movie, might have sounded farfetched.  You take your best shot in this world. I know Lara wants to be much more than she is now. How would she like to be a Curator Muse of a Museum Without Walls? Send out resumés.

This poetic connection between William Morris and Huon d’Oisy, is astounding. The Bond and Tolkien Estate are giving their permission for future works. I am seeking that permission. I am modeling my best stuff. If the show fits – wear it! I see a beautiful horse on the internet. I behold a beautiful woman on the internet. I put the beautiful woman on the beautiful horse, and, out her mouth comes her beautiful poetry! I do not created in a vacuum. I need to be inspired!

Lara looks like the maiden who is about to put the helmet on her champion head. But, does she consider putting it on her own? I believe Lara is angry that she was not born a man so that she could outdo her father who prances about an arena with his Frisian horses, like a knight – a god! She rode these horses in shows. Did something go wrong?

In the video that is a tribute to Cees Roozemond, my eyes first fell upon this beautiful child who may be in distress. An award, a plate with a coat of arms is being offered her? These honors are her father’s things. She embraces the horse. This is on part with Arthur pulling the sword from the stone. She prays for something more worthwhile to do with her life, so that this Rose can show the World what truly matters. Now, she can help save the world. This is her calling.

Lara Roozemond! You have been called. You have a calling. Mount up!

P.S. In six minutes it will be midnight. What I long news day. I looking at image of the black night with three stars, I noticed the person in the foreground holding the reins and petting the horse, is a child. I then noticed the long mane of the horse that is supposed to be black, but, then you can not see the mane. The knight may be a woman. Ida Boulogne is one of the Tournament Dames. She is kin to Godfrey de Boulogne. Did a Frisian horse go on Crusade? This is worthy of a study.

John Gregory Presco

http://www.flemmingfamily.org/the-early-flemmings.html 

It is an interesting fact to the genealogist that the motto borne by the Fleming, or Flemming, family is the only motto recorded in British healdry which is still written in Gaelic This motto, “Bhear na Righ gan”—“May the King live forever”—must date from a very ancient period, as the Flemings have been in England and Scotland for almost a thousand years.

The English chronicler gives as the first of the family Stephen of Flanders, who first assumed the name of Flanders or Fleming to show the nationality of his forefathers. The Irish descendents of Stephen say theat Stephan’s Father, Archembald, a nobleman of Flanders, came from the continent with William the Conqueror and acquired the lordshoip of Bratton in Devonshire.

In 1153, the second Michael le Fleming agreed an exchange of land with Furness Abbey, giving up Roose, Fordbootle and Crivelton for Little Urswick and part of Foss, near Bootle in Cumberland, so that the Abbot could get greater access to his port at Piel.

Notes: Muchland derives its name from Micheal’s Land after Michael le Fleming who was granted the lands by Henry I sometime between 1107 and 1111. These lands lay eastwards of Abbey Beck and southwards of the moors of Birkrigg and Swarthmoor and stretched right down to the southern-most tip of the peninsula at Rampside.[1] At that time the southern limit of the manor was Walney Channel, but it was later moved inland to follow the line of Sarah Beck or Roosebeck. This land became the new manor of Aldingham.

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Original 2/7/22The European port of Rotterdam will dismantle part of its iconic Koningshaven bridge for Jeff Bezos. The billionaire’s new yacht is being built in Alblasserdam, in the western Netherlands, and will be too tall to pass under the bridge.

“It’s the only route to the sea,” a spokesperson for the mayor of Rotterdam told AFP, confirming the news of the bridge’s dismantling. According to Dutch news, ship builder Oceanco convinced the city to dismantle part of the bridge. The Rotterdam mayor’s spokesperson also confirmed that Bezos would pay for the dismantling and rebuilding of the bridge.

In November, Oceano’s chairman, Omani businessman Dr. Mohammed Al Barwani, spoke of the 127 meter (416 feet) sailing yacht the company was working on without mentioning Bezos. Later, Boat International identified the 127m yacht as the one commissioned by the Amazon founder.

The Koningshaven bridge, known locally as the De Hef bridge, was built in 1877. During World War II, the bridge was significantly damaged and rebuilt, subsequently recognized as a historic monument. Between 2014 and 2017, the bridge underwent a restoration, and officials promised it would not be dismantled again.

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Rotterdam’s Koningshaven bridge in 1890HULTON DEUTSCH//GETTY IMAGES

“From an economic perspective and maintaining employment, the municipality considers this a very important project,” Marcel Walravens, the leader of the proposed dismantling project, told Dutch broadcaster Rijnmond. “Rotterdam has also been declared the maritime capital of Europe. Shipbuilding and activity within that sector are therefore an important pillar for the municipality.” Walravens says the project will likely take place sometime this summer.

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Dennis Tak, a Labor Party city councilor, said he was OK with the dismantling of the Koningshaven bridge because Bezos is paying for it, and it would create jobs. “As a city, this is a great way to take some of his money,” Tak told the New York Times.

Dutch residents are not happy, however; they plan to throw rotten eggs at Jeff Bezos’s superyacht as it passes through the Rotterdam harbor. Business Insider reports Rotterdam locals are planning an event called “Throwing eggs at Jeff Bezos’ superyacht” in protest.

“Calling all Rotterdammers, take a box of rotten eggs with you and let’s throw them en masse at Jeff’s superyacht when it sails through the Hef in Rotterdam,” the event description reads on Facebook. “Rotterdam was built from the rubble by the people of Rotterdam, and we don’t just take that apart for the phallic symbol of a megalomaniac billionaire. Not without a fight!” 3,300 people have RSVP’d as going, and 11,600 are interested in the event.

Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973), the American socialite and philanthropist who designed the Sea Cloud yacht

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When Bezos’s yacht, known as Y721, is delivered later this year—after the bridge is dismantled—the boat will become the world’s largest sailing yacht, a title that has been held for nearly a century by American socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post’s 1931 boat Sea Cloud.

Along with making history as the largest sailing yacht, Bezos’s Y271 is the longest yacht to have ever been built in the Netherlands, and Oceano’s largest ever superyacht. It is also rumored to come with a “support yacht,” also called a shadow vessel. The superyacht likely cost more than $500 million to build, per Bloomberg.

Bezos is also reportedly the owner of the Flying Fox, a $400 million megayacht.

Jeff Bezos to dismantle historic Dutch bridge for $450 million yacht

The Koningshaven Bridge was built in 1878 and repaired after bombing in World War II

Jeff Bezos will pay for Rotterdam to partially dismantle a nearly 145-year-old bridge so he can sail his $485 million super yacht out after finishing construction on the vessel. 

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The Oceanco shipyard in Alblasserdam near Rotterdam has nearly completed the construction of Y721, the former Amazon CEO’s yacht, but the vessel is too big to sail out with the bridge as it is. The builders asked the local council to remove the bridge’s central section so the yacht can pass. 

Jeff Bezos’ superyacht in the Oceanco shipyard. The $485 million vessel will have a height over 130 feet.  (Courtesy Tom van Oossanen/IG: @tomvanoossanen)

“It’s the only route to the sea,” a spokesman for the mayor of Rotterdam told AFP, adding that billionaire Bezos, 57, would pay for the operation. The super yacht, which will be the largest boat built in Oceanco and one of the largest ever built, requires a 130-foot clearance, at least, to pass through. 

SHIRTLESS JEFF BEZOS COZIES UP TO GIRLFRIEND LAUREN SANCHEZ ON YACHT DURING ST. BARTS GETAWAY

The Koningshaven Bridge, known to locals as De Hef, dates from 1878 but was rebuilt after the Nazis bombed it in 1940 during World War II. The local council replaced the original swing bridge design after several traffic jams and collisions, changing it to a lifting bridge. 

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The local council completed a major repair on the bridge in 2017 and promised not to dismantle the bridge again. 

KIM KARDASHIAN, PETE DAVIDSON HAVE DINNER AT JEFF BEZOS’ LA MANSION

The shipbuilders dismissed suggestions that they sail a partially-finished vessel down the river and finish it elsewhere. Marcel Walravens, who managed the renovation, said it would prove impractical. 

Jeff Bezos’ superyacht in the Oceanco shipyard. The $485 million vessel will have a height over 130 feet.  (Courtesy Tom van Oossanen/IG: @tomvanoossanen)

“If you carry out a big job somewhere, you want all your tools in that place,” Walravens told Rijnmond. “Otherwise you have to go back and forth constantly.”

Walravens noted that the municipality considers the project “very important.” 

“Rotterdam has also been declared the maritime capital of Europe,” he explained. “Shipbuilding and activity within that sector are therefore an important pillar for the municipality.”

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