Unfortunately for them, time moves a lot faster now than it did when Ibn Saud ruled the roost.

FORBES: Saudi Royals Wary Of Bahrain Unrest

The man who founded the kingdom in 1932, King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, fostered at least 45 sons.

ECONOMIST: Middle Eastern dynasties

He starts with that meeting between Roosevelt and Ibn Saud.

ECONOMIST: Oil and geopolitics

After Ibn Saud's death in 1953, and the beginnings of modernisation under his sons Saud and (especially) Faisal, the ruling family sought to turn the ulema (religious scholars) into tame, well-paid bureaucrats.

ECONOMIST: Sheikh Bin Baz

The info in the Reuters report is based on cables received through Wikileaks, and details the kinds of payments received by thousands of descendants of Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, the founding father of the Kingdom.

FORBES: Report Details How Saudi Royals Cream Off Oil Revenue

Treaty talks came to nothing, and the British withdrew their protection, opening the way for Ibn Saud, the king of the Nejd, to conquer Hussein's kingdom of Hijaz in 1924, and launch Wahhabi rule over Saudi Arabia.

ECONOMIST: Britain and the Hashemites

Near where Mr. Pritzker's home is under construction, neighbors are up in arms over another of Mr. McCoy's projects, a roughly 70, 000-square-foot compound (downsized from 85, 000 square feet) awaiting permitting for Prince Abdulaziz ibn Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud, son of the king of Saudi Arabia.

WSJ: Living