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Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (Arabic: محمد بن سلمان آل سعود, romanized: Muḥammad bin Salmān Āl Su‘ūd; born 31 August 1985), also known as MBS or MbS, is the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, [1] formally serving as Crown Prince and Prime Minister.
The Al Saudi family became known as the "royal family", and each member, male and female, was accorded the title amir ("prince") or amira ("princess"), respectively. Ibn Saud died in 1953, after having cemented an alliance with the United States in 1945.
The Royal Flag of the crown prince consists of a green flag, with an Arabic inscription and a sword featured in white, and with the national emblem embroidered in silver threads in the lower right canton. Royal Flag of the Crown Prince . The script on the flag is written in the Thuluth script. It is the shahada or Islamic declaration of faith:
Al Waleed bin Talal was born in Jeddah on 7 March 1955 [22] [23] to Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz and Mona El Solh. [24] [25] His father was Saudi Arabia's finance minister during the early 1960s, [26] before he went into exile due to his advocacy for political reform. [27]
Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud (Arabic: عبد العزيز بن سلمان آل سعود ʿAbd al ʿAzīz bin Salman Al Suʿūd; born 1960) is a Saudi royal, one of the sons of King Salman and one of the grandsons of Saudi's founder King Abdulaziz, and a politician who has served as the Saudi Arabian minister of energy since September 2019.
The order of succession to the Saudi Arabian throne is determined by, and within, the House of Saud.Every King of Saudi Arabia, upon his death, has been succeeded by the crown prince, with a new crown prince then being appointed according to a loose form of agnatic seniority among the sons of Ibn Saud, though various members of the family have been bypassed for various reasons.
King of Saudi Arabia r. 1964–1975: Khalid 1913–1982 King of Saudi Arabia r. 1975–1982: Fahd 1920, 1921, or 1923–2005 King of Saudi Arabia r. 1982–2005: Abdullah 1924–2015 King of Saudi Arabia r. 2005–2015: Salman b. 1935 King of Saudi Arabia r. 2015–present: Mohammed bin Salman b. 1985 Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
Sultan bin Salman Al Saud (Arabic: سلطان بن سلمان آل سعود; Sulṭān bin Salmān Āl Suʿūd; born 27 June 1956) is a Saudi prince and former Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who flew aboard the American STS-51-G Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist.