Third-generation Saudi royals promoted

The small world of Saudi-watchers pricked up its ears at the 14 January royal orders appointing new governors to the Eastern Province and Medina. The long-serving Sharqiyah‎ governor Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd was removed “upon his request”, and replaced by former Eastern Province deputy governor and ambassador to Spain Prince Saud Bin Nayef. In Medina, Prince Abdelaziz Bin Majid Bin Abdelaziz was relieved of his post (again apparently upon his request) and Prince Faisal Bin Salman Bin Abdelaziz appointed.