The birth of the prince means the monarchy has three generations of heirs to the throne for the first time since 1901.
While most Gilded Age fortunes have long since succumbed to taxes, economic turmoil and repeated sub-divisions among generations of heirs, two discrete chunks of Cone wealth still exist today in quantities large enough to qualify for The Forbes 400.
This continued the tradition of presenting at least two generations of heirs.
The current generation of Maloofs—heirs who squandered their predecessors' legacy in the gaudiest and dumbest of possible ways are just a passel of expired fameballs, relics of an era that was hateful even during its illusory and consequence-denying peak.
Goldwater is heralded as the father of modern conservatism, but he could occupy that niche only because successive generations of his heirs refined and streamlined his message, buffing away the elements that the public saw as extremist.
The administrative and legal reforms which earned him the name Law Giver ensured the Empire's survival long after his death, an achievement which "took many generations of decadent heirs to undo".
There are now three generations of direct heirs to the throne, ages 64 (Charles), 31 (William) and 0 (the newborn), a rare pileup in the annals of British royalty.
Some saw this as a sign of the waning influence of Sultan within the armed forces.When or whether the throne will pass to the second generation of Abdul Aziz's heirs remains an open question.
Defying an earlier generation of generic NBC executives, David Letterman did become the uncontested heir to Johnny Carson.
