“Behind the wheel of the $55,000 Mercedes convertible with a trunk full of designer clothes, the 31-year-old tourist could have passed for royalty.

“Even as Orlando police Tuesday led Anthony Enrique Gignac handcuffed to the patrol car outside Sheraton Studio City Hotel on International Drive, he continued to play the role of a Saudi Arabian prince,” The Orlando Sentinel reports.

‘Call the embassy!’ shouted the man who police said has fooled people for years from Miami to Honolulu, claiming he was Khaled al Saud, the grandson of the founder of modern Saudi Arabia and one of the world’s wealthiest men.

Orlando police and Orange County sheriff’s detectives said they were tipped by an American Express investigator who was familiar with Gignac and was aware he was in Central Florida. Police charged Gignac with second-degree grand theft Tuesday and booked him into the Orange County Jail.

Which beats being beheaded in Saudi Arabia, you’ve gotta admit…

Quick question, though: How does one go about “impersonating” that special smell of petrol, blood, and stultifying oppressiveness so peculiar to members of the House of Saud?

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