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Updated 2026 — explore the complete House of Saud family tree. 15,000+ princes, seven kings, and the line of succession from Abdulaziz to MBS. Every branch mapped.

Saudi Royal Family Tree Updated 2026 — explore the complete House of Saud family tree. 15,000+ princes, seven kings, and the line of succession from Abdulaziz to MBS. Every branch mapped. April 5, 2021 Abdulaziz ibn Saud Saud bin Abdulaziz Faisal bin Abdulaziz Khaled bin Abdulaziz Fahd bin Abdulaziz Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Sultan bin Abdulaziz Talal bin Abdulaziz Nayef bin Abdulaziz Salman bin Abdulaziz Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Saud Al Faisal Khaled Al Faisal Miteb bin Abdullah Alwaleed bin Talal Mohammed bin Fahd Khaled bin Sultan Bandar bin Sultan Saud bin Nayef Mohammed bin Nayef Faisal bin Salman Mohammed bin Salman Sultan bin Salman Photo: Associated Press The New King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud King from 2015, Crown Prince 2012 – 2015, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense Salman was named as the country’s new crown prince in 2012, succeeding his brother Nayef. He is also one of the seven sons born to Ibn Saud’s favorite wife, Hassa bint Ahmed al-Sudairi. In 1962, he became governor of Riyadh Province and ruled the province until he became defense minister in 2011. Salman has played an increasingly prominent role in Saudi politics in recent years. He is known to favor close political and economic ties with the West. Born in 1935. Photo: Associated Press The Previous King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud King 2005 – 2015 Abdullah became king in 2005 after spending a decade as an effective ruler of the country during the illness of King Fahd. Abdullah pushed a program of cautious domestic reforms aimed at reconciling the kingdom’s conservative social identity with the needs of a modern economy. He responded to the 2011 Arab Spring by banning protests and supporting dictatorial allies in neighboring countries. The Rest of the Family Below, explore details on the remaining sons and brothers in the family, organized by earliest generation to later. Photo: Associated Press King Abdulaziz ibn Saud King 1932 – 1953 As a young man, Ibn Saud led a small band of men to recapture his family’s ancient territory of Riyadh, in central Arabia, and went on to build a desert kingdom under the flag of Islamic revival. On Sept. 23, 1932, the country was named the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. By the time of his death, it stretched from the Gulf to the Red Sea and from Iraq to Yemen. Photo: Associated Press Saud bin Abdulaziz al Saud King 1953 – 1964 Upon Abdulaziz’s death in 1953, his eldest son, Saud, acceded to the throne. Some historians said of Saud that he would have made a wonderful Bedouin chief. But as the leader of a modern state, with growing oil revenue, he oversaw a disordered government that squandered its new found wealth and failed to respond to the needs of a new age. Photo: Associated Press Faisal bin Abdulaziz al Saud King 1964 – 1975 Faisal secured the throne in 1964, after a protracted power struggle with his half brother King Saud, and turned the desert kingdom into a functioning modern state. He oversaw the rise of Saudi Arabia as a world energy powerhouse during the Arab oil embargo of the early 1970s. He was assassinated by a nephew in 1975. Photo: Associated Press Khaled bin Abdulaziz al Saud King 1975 – 1982 Khaled became king as an elderly man with a strong sense of religious duty. He was appalled by the 1979 siege of Mecca, in which Islamic extremists seized the holy mosque and could only be forced out after a violent battle. Photo: Associated Press Fahd bin Abdulaziz al Saud King 1982 – 2005 Fahd was the eldest of the so-called “Sudairi seven,” a powerful group of seven princes born to Ibn Saud’s favorite wife, Hassa bint Ahmad al-Sudairi. A leading member of the government and royal family from the 1960s onwards, Fahd modernized the kingdom’s infrastructure with grand projects, but allowed Islamic conservatives greater sway over education and society. King Fahd never fully recovered from a stroke in 1995, and gave his half-brother Abdullah de facto control of the kingdom more than a decade before his death in 2005. Photo: Associated Press Sultan bin Abdulaziz al Saud Crown Prince 2005 – 2011 Sultan was the second of the so-called “Sudairi seven,” a powerful group of seven princes born to Ibn Saud’s favorite wife, Hassa bint Ahmad al-Sudairi. He became the country’s defense and aviation minister in 1962, a role he used to cement Saudi relations with Western countries using a string of massive arms contracts. He died in October 2011 in New York City, after six years as heir to his elder half brother, King Abdullah. According to Saudi Arabia’s state news agency, Sultan was born sometime in 1928, though some experts on the Saudi monarchy believe he was actually born in 1925. Photo: Associated Press Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud UNESCO Special Envoy for Water Prince Talal is known as the Red Prince for his politically liberal views. He led the Free Princes movement in the 1960s, which called for the end of the absolute monarchy in Saudi Arabia and expanded civil rights, reforms that his family sh...

Saudi Royal Family Tree 2026: Complete Lineage Guide