Billionaire Royal Caribbean Founder Arne Wilhelmsen Dies at Age 90

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One of the founders of Royal Caribbean, Arne Wilhelmsen, has died at the age of 90, according to the cruise company.

“The entire Royal Caribbean family extends its heartfelt condolences to the Wilhelmsen family,” Royal Caribbean said in a press release on Sunday. “Together with the company’s first CEO, the late Edwin Stephan, Wilhelmsen saw possibilities for the nascent cruise industry that others did not.”