Apropos yesterday's post on The Kings Abdullah (sounds like a good Dostoevsky book title, no?), here's an interesting interactive family genealogy of the House of Saud. It's fascinating to see how a succession of half-brothers have dominated Saudi society for over half a century:
King Abd al-Aziz cemented alliances by marrying a daughter of every tribal chief in his realm, producing 45 legitimate sons and having at least 22 wives. Every Saudi king since has been a son of Abd al- Aziz. The number of his daughters is not known - they were not counted - but are estimated to be more than 50. Though many of his contemporaries regarded his practice of polygamy as excessive, it was continued and surpassed by his son, King Saud, who had 53 sons and at least 54 daughters. The descendents of King Abd al-Aziz now number in the thousands, many of whom hold important government positions.
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