Perhaps will move the Kingdom closer to ... democracy.
Just think -
When Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud was born he and the other Saudis didn’t know what toilet paper or a shower was.
By the time he died they had enough money to buy half the countries on earth.
The King is also in his 80s, weighs over 300 lbs and has diabetes. He is not long for this earth.
With the Crown Prince dead, a sudden death of the King could create the exact turmoil that Iran is waiting, and planning, for.
An unstable Saudi Arabia will drive oil prices up so high, that the world economies will collapse all at once.
This is the precise trigger that the socialists and islamists are looking for.
The Saudi prince who just died was older than his country.