There's hundreds of thousands more due to be released, and the Saudi government are encouraging their citizens not to share the documents - although, crucially, they haven't directly denied the authenticity of any of the releases, instead saying some of the documents have been 'fabricated in a very obvious way,' Independent reported.

Not all of the leaks have been verified yet, but what they appear to show gives an interesting insight into the workings of the Saudi Arabian kingdom.

A Saudi princess racked up an £882,000 limo bill - and didn't pay it

One of the most popular leaked documents isn't an internal embassy memo or top secret dossier, but a simple invoice, sent from the short-changed owner of a Geneva limo company who had one of his customers leave the country when she owed him 1.5 million Swiss francs.

The bill has been linked to Princess Maha Al Ibrahim, the wife of senior Saudi royal Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

Government officials appear to discuss ways to undermine Iran

One document, a memo that is said to have originated in the Saudi embassy in Tehran, mentions 'the frustration of the Iranian citizens and his strong desire for regime change.'

Beyond these discussions, it appears that the Saudis are keeping a close eye on their neighbors across the Persian Gulf. A memo sent in 2012 says that Iran has been getting 'flirting American messages' over a peaceful nuclear program in Iran.

They really don't like Israel

One particularly interesting document, a memo sent to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC, warned that dozens of Saudi students had visited the Israeli embassy in the American capital.

Students from other Persian Gulf nations had gone too, as part of an international leadership program.

Their concern is understandable in context. There is no diplomatic co-operation between the two nations at all, and their only real link is that they both oppose the increasing influence of Iran.

There's still more to come

Friday's document drop consisted of around 60,000 different files. Almost all of these documents are scanned pieces of paper, written in Arabic.

Wikileaks claim they have more than half a million files, and they're going to be released in batches of tens of thousands over the next few weeks.

Naturally, with this many documents, there's a lot of inconsequential memos that don't give too much away. However, only around 12 per cent of the documents have been released so far, and they contain some very important information.

There may well be a lot more to come as the rest of the files are released.

But there's still things we don't know...

Hundreds of thousands of confidential government documents can provide a detailed insight into the workings of that government.

But despite the droves of raw information that are being released, there's one thing we don't know - how the documents got out in the first place.

The Wikileaks press release mentions the Yemeni Cyber Army, a hacker group that successfully breached Saudi Foreign Ministry networks in May and released a handful of documents that they obtained.

That was the last known Saudi computer breach, but the press release goes on to say: 'The full Wikileaks trove comprises thousands of times the number of documents' - suggesting that their leaks didn't come from the Yemeni Cyber Army.

So where did they come from? No-one quite knows, yet. It could be the work of a whistleblower like Chelsea Manning, or the work of another organized hacker group.

It remains a secret, but the Saudi Foreign Ministry spokesman, Osama Naqli, mentioned 'enemies of the state' when speaking about the leaks, and promised to prosecute those involved.