The Two Main Branches
Mubarak Al Sabah had fifteen children, eight sons and seven daughters.
Sons of Mubarak Al Sabah:
Jaber, Salim, Nasser, Fahad, Saud, Hamad, Sabah and Abdullah the offspring of two of them however - Jaber and Salem - rotate the Emirship of Kuwait, in the meantime the situation have been changed because other offspring have been appointed to the most important ministries which will lead them to succeed the throne of the state of Kuwait.
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“If the main timbers in the house are not straight, the smaller timbers will be unsafe; and if the smaller timbers are not straight, the house will fall.”
—Chinese proverb.
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