- Christine and Dr Gabriel Chiu donate to the King’s ‘Royal NHS’
- Mrs. Chiu was the star of a hit Netflix show about wealthy Asians in Los Angeles.
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Five years have passed since the establishment of the so-called Royal NHS, a health and welfare center integrated into Dumfries House, King Charles of Scotland’s cultural institute.
It offers a wide range of holistic approaches, including cooking lessons, yoga, sowing and harvesting, sewing and ‘mindful walking’, and is said to have achieved remarkable results.
Last weekend the Mail on Sunday reported that while the average birth rate for IVF patients in the UK was just 20%, half of the couples attending the Dumfries House fertility clinic were able to conceive.
Most of the patients there have exhausted the support available to them in the actual National Health Service.
So who is paying for it? This is not the first time the king has turned to foreign donors for help.
But in the case of Dumfries House Health Center, as Caroline Graham reported in 2021, its supporters are diverse even by Charles’ standards.
Meet Kius – The billionaire plastic surgery moguls who appeared on Netflix’s reality series Bling Empire. A woman has used the money she earned from boob jobs and butt lifts to help an Ayrshire couple conceive…
The Prince’s Foundation Health and Wellbeing Center offers a wide range of holistic therapies and has been hailed as a ‘passion project’ for the Prince of Wales.
Acupuncture, reflexology and hypnotherapy are just some of the treatments offered at the clinic. The clinic is part of the 2,000-acre grounds of Dumfries House, an 18th-century Palladian mansion in Ayrshire, preserved for the nation and lovingly restored by Prince Charles.
Wellbeing centers were dismissed as “new-age hippie nonsense” when they first opened in 2019, but that’s no longer the case.
The facility was recently named a ‘Royal NHS’ by grateful GP practitioners for transforming the lives of more than 200 local patients with its pioneering approach to obesity, diabetes and infertility. is known.
At the center of the multi-million pound project sits the fascinating persona of Taiwanese businesswoman Christine Chiu.
This center and its undoubted success would never have been possible without her support, including significant donations.
Charles appears alongside Christine and her plunging neckline in numerous photos on the popular Instagram account, showing a warm respect for each other. She told Netflix viewers that the Prince of Wales is a “really cool guy”.
But you must be wondering, my friend’s appearance on Netflix’s hit reality show is so flamboyant that even the title Bling Empire doesn’t adequately capture its exuberant vulgarity. What does Charles think about this?
A cross between the movie “Crazy Rich Asians” and the reality series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” “Bling Empire” explores the social lives of a group of extremely wealthy Asians in Hollywood and their astonishing spending habits. It revolves around.
And whether she’s wearing Dolce & Gabbana or latex fetish clothing, Christine is a breakout star.
So who are Christine and her 55-year-old husband, Dr. Gabriel Chiu? Simply put, they are self-made millionaires with a fortune of £50 million thanks to one of LA’s biggest clinics, Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery.
Dr Chiu specializes in rhinoplasty and his trademark ‘mum makeover’ (combining a tummy tuck and breast lift), a procedure that could soon be offered at Dumfries House. gender is low.
When the series was filmed in pre-coronavirus 2019 (the year Prince Charles’ Scottish Health and Wellbeing Center opened), Christine was obsessed with showing off her lavish lifestyle.
That includes closing Rodeo Drive, the shopping mecca of Beverly Hills, for a Lunar New Year party that will cost “more than the average home in the United States, but less than a rare Bugatti.” ” she quipped.
In one episode of Bling Empire, the Kius family hosts a “leather party” called Keep It Tight to promote the clinic’s new “tummy and butt” tightening machine.
The party includes a Botox bar, which Dr. Gabriel injects for free to guests, as well as a strange vibrating device that appears to be used to strengthen the pelvic floor.
Dressed in pink latex with matching gloves and a headband, Christine tells guests, “Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery is here to keep you in shape.” Tight abs, toned buttocks. Yes, front and back! ”
For her son Gabriel, affectionately known as Baby G, she celebrated his first birthday at the LA Children’s Museum, complete with a Ferris wheel, carnival games, pony rides, a live band, and an amusement park-style “grab claw” machine. I hosted a million dollar party. Gucci handbag.
Christine drew gasps from the crowd when she announced that in lieu of party bags, the couple would donate $1 million to the museum to provide free admission to children in impoverished areas.
And astute observers will note that Dumfries House Health Center boasts a plaque honoring Gabriel Christian Chiu III, a tuxedo-clad toddler.
The series features other ultra-wealthy members of Asia’s ‘glamour set’, including Anna Hsieh, the daughter of a defense contractor who is worth an estimated £88bn. Kane Lim (son of a Singaporean billionaire shipping tycoon). and Jamie Hsieh (Silicon Valley dad Ken sold his own business, anti-hacking system Netscreen, for £3bn in 2004).
But it’s Christine who steals the show. Her love of eccentric haute couture and ostentatious displays of wealth caused such a sensation that her publicist told the Mail on Sunday that she received interview requests from around the world. “We’re inundated with it,” he said.
When she makes the social blunder of wearing the same Louis Vuitton diamond and pink sapphire necklace worn by hostess Shay, she is punished by being placed in “Social Siberia.” ” and laments his predicament, saying, “I should have been sitting.” Why am I here when I’m to the left of Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace? ”
Christine, the daughter of a Taiwanese businessman who moved to the United States at 18 to attend Pepperdine University in Malibu, flaunts her royal connections on screen.
However, as expected, her connection to Prince Charles is not. Instead, she tells her viewers that her Chinese husband Gabriel is from the 24th generation of the Song Dynasty, which ruled China from 960 to 1279 AD.
Christine spoke of her “fascinating” experience sitting next to the prince at a fundraising gala, saying: “I was told about 10 minutes before the dinner that I would be sitting next to him. It was such an honour. That’s true,” he said. But it comes with a lot of etiquette.
“So I had to get a crash course in the rules of etiquette. Sometimes when he stands up, you have to stand up, or he has to leave first. Then he’s on one side. If you are facing one direction, you should also be facing one direction.
When you’re about to eat dinner, you may have a lot of things on your mind. He’s incredibly charming and has a wicked sense of humor. he’s a really cool guy. ”
In a flurry of posts on Instagram to celebrate Prince Charles’ birthday last year, she posted four photos of herself meeting the prince (on separate occasions) and wrote, “Happy Birthday, His Royal Highness Prince Charles.” Congratulations!” he wrote. What an honor and pleasure it is to support your vision and philanthropy.
“I look forward to visiting you soon and checking on the progress of the Prince Foundation Chiu Health Program and Center.”
In Bling Empire, there are rare moments when the socialite’s mask slips and we see a glimpse of humanity. She describes her son as a “miracle baby” who was conceived through IVF after 10 years of hard work.
She then broke down in tears, saying she had “taken the blame” for her infertility in the eyes of her husband’s traditional Chinese family, even though the “problem” was actually with him.
Dumfries House Clinic treated more than 200 people in 2019. Although we were forced to close for much of last year due to the pandemic and are currently closed to the public, we continue to offer virtual health and wellbeing courses.
Just before the lockdown in March, a baby was born to a couple who had been struggling to conceive for two years after taking part in a fertility welfare course. Colin and Stacey Forrest were “overjoyed” to welcome baby Calvin.
Stacey enrolled in the centre’s fertility treatment course, but admitted: “Colin was a bit skeptical”. By that stage she wanted to try everything. Everyone kept telling us to “be patient, it will happen when it happens” as all the tests carried out by the NHS showed that there was clearly nothing wrong with both of us. Ta. ‘
The couple registered for fertility treatment through the NHS and were on an 18-month waiting list for IUI (intrauterine insemination), but decided to use the three months of that waiting time to “try something different”. .
Stacey, a childcare worker, said: “This course has helped me as a person and taught me how to reduce stress and calm down overall.”
At the end of the first series of Bling Empire, Christine is seen arguing with her husband over whether to try another round of IVF.
As for the Prince of Wales, a spokesperson for Clarence House declined to comment, but a palace official said it was “very unlikely” the prince would watch the show.
One source praised the Kiuses’ philanthropy for the Dumfries House clinic, saying they had been “incredibly helpful” in “realizing the vision” for the welfare centre. Although it has not yet been announced, sources say the show’s unexpected success makes a second series inevitable.
And while viewers will probably be soothed by the sight of Christine visiting ‘her’ clinic in Scotland, there’s no telling how much her Manolo Blahnik heels are on the damp grass of Dumfries House. I don’t know yet whether I will be able to cope with it.
- Additional reports: Saskia Hume and Patricia Kane