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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Faisal Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Formal portrait, 1945 King of Saudi Arabia Reign 2 November 1964 – 25 March 1975 Bay'ah 2 November 1964 Predecessor Saud Successor Khalid Regent of Saudi Arabia Tenure 4 March 1964 – 2 November 1964 Monarch Saud Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Tenure 16 ...
King Faisal tomb in Baghdad Crowd mourning King Faisal gather in front of the municipality street in Amman, Transjordan in 1933. King Faisal died of a heart attack on 8 September 1933 in Bern, Switzerland. [2] He was 48 years old at the time of his death. Faisal was succeeded on the throne by his eldest son, Ghazi.
On 27 May 2005, Fahd was admitted to the King Faisal Specialist Hospital due to pneumonia and a high fever. He died there on 1 August at around 09:30 KSA time. The official announcement of his death was made by the Minister of Information, Iyad bin Amin Madani, and Saudi television interrupted regular programming with recitations of the Quran. [4]
Faisal was the only son of King Ghazi of Iraq and his wife, Queen Aliya, second daughter of 'Ali bin Hussein, King of the Hejaz and Grand Sharif of Mecca. Faisal's father was killed in a mysterious car crash when he was three years old; his father’s first cousin, Prince 'Abd al-Ilah , served as regent until Faisal came of age in 1953.
On 14 July, revolutionary forces seized control of the capital and proclaimed a new republic, headed by a Revolutionary Council. King Faisal and Crown Prince Abd al-Ilah were executed at the royal Al-Rehab Palace, bringing an end to the Hashemite dynasty in Iraq. Prime Minister al-Said attempted to flee but was captured and shot a day later.
On 25 March 1975, Prince Faisal went to the Royal Palace in Riyadh, where King Faisal was holding a meeting, known as a majlis. He joined a Kuwaiti delegation and lined up to meet the king. The king recognized his nephew and bent his head forward, so that the younger Faisal could kiss the king's head in a sign of respect.
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Faisal bin Fahd Al Saud (Arabic: فيصل بن فهد بن عبد العزيز آل سعود; 1945 – 21 August 1999) was the president of Youth Welfare in Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 1999. He was a member of the House of Saud , a son of King Fahd , and one of the grandsons of Saudi's founder King Abdulaziz .