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[7] [39] [40] Faisal's elder half-brother, Saud, became king. Faisal was then appointed crown prince. On 16 August 1954 he was made prime minister. [41] With Gamal Abdel Nasser in Hejaz, 1954. King Saud embarked on a spending program that included the construction of a massive royal residence on the outskirts of the capital, Riyadh.
In 1965, Faisal's older brother Khaled [3] [4] was shot and killed by a Saudi police officer while he led an assault on a new television station in Riyadh that had been recently founded by King Faisal. [5] Some people opposed the establishment of a national television service, as they considered it immoral to produce images of humans. [6]
In response, Prince Faisal demanded King Saud make him regent and turn over all royal powers to him. In this, he had the crucial backing of the ulema (elite Islamic scholars), including a fatwa (edict) issued by the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, a relative of Prince Faisal on his mother's side, calling on King Saud to accede to his brother's ...
Fahd bin Salman was a full brother of Prince Ahmed, Prince Sultan, Prince Abdulaziz, Prince Faisal, and Princess Hassa. [6] Fahd bin Salman received a bachelor's degree from King Saud University in Riyadh, [7] followed by a second bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. [1] [failed verification]
Map presented by TE Lawrence to the Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet in November 1918. Zaid bin Hussein (Arabic: زيد بن الحسين; (28 February 1898 – 18 October 1970) was an Iraqi prince who was a member of the Hashemite dynasty and the head of the Royal House of Iraq from 1958 until his death, after the royal line founded by his brother Faisal I of Iraq was killed.
Abd al-Ilah of Hejaz (Arabic: عبد الإله بن علي الهاشمي) GCB, GCMG, GCVO (Arabic: عبد الإله; also written Abdul Ilah or Abdullah; 14 November 1913 – 14 July 1958) was a cousin and brother-in-law of King Ghazi of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq and was regent for his nephew King Faisal II, from 4 April 1939 to 23 May 1953, when Faisal came of age.
King Charles III’s relationship with his brother Prince Edward has changed over the years.. The late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip welcomed their firstborn, Charles, in November 1948. The ...
After taking the throne, King Faisal nominated Prince Muhammad as crown prince, but he stepped away from the succession. His younger full brother, Prince Khalid, then became crown prince. Following the assassination of King Faisal in 1975, the members of the royal family council including Prince Muhammad proclaimed Khalid as king.