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The Kingdom: The World's Most Powerful Prince review: The strange tale of the Saudi crown prince, part playboy, part Mafia don, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
In Saudi Arabia , the question has proved crucial ? because the nation's founder and first absolute ruler, King Saud, had 45 sons by more than 20 wives... and they were all in line to succeed.
He's now 88 and, with no surviving brothers, he will be succeeded by his own son Mohammed bin Salman al Saud... who has had to dispose of a good many cousins, one way or another, to ensure his inheritance. Most of this complicated but intriguing documentary, the first of two, comprised a portrait of the Crown Prince, told partly by those who know him - both friends and enemies - but chiefly through archive news footage and Morven Christie's narration. After he launched an attack on Houthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen, giving his U.S. allies just 12 hours' notice of his intentions, the Saudi media began calling him the Prince of Decisiveness.
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