Khalid bin Saud Al Saud (1925 – 7 July 2020) was a member of the

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. He was one of the sons of

King Saud Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( ar, سعود بن عبد العزيز آل سعود ''Suʿūd ibn ʿAbd al ʿAzīz Āl Suʿūd'', Najdi Arabic pronunciation: ; 15 January 1902 – 23 February 1969) was King of Saudi Arabia from 9 November 1953 ...

and held various administrative positions during the reign of his father. He was the first member of the Saudi royal family to command the

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Early life and education

Khalid was born in Mecca in 1925 and was the ninth son of King Saud. His mother was Jamila Asaad Ibrahim Merhi who was of

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origin. Jamila and her father, Asaad Ibrahim, were charged with planning to assassinate

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, President of the

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, in March 1958, and they were both tried in absentia in Damascus. Following the completion of high school education Prince Khalid received a university degree in 1948.

Career

Khalid bin Saud was first made an assistant to his father, King Saud, and remained in the post until 1955. In June 1957 he was appointed the commander of the Saudi National Guard. Prince Khalid became the first Saudi royal to lead the Guard which had been headed by tribal sheikhs.

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reports that King Saud asked Prince Khalid to reorganize the Guard to protect the royal family. In addition, following Khalid's appointment the Guard began to have independent and substantial funds for the first time to improve its quite limited capabilities. His half-brother Prince Saad replaced him in the post in 1959. Khalid's next position was the director of

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to which he was appointed in 1959. On 7 March 1962 he was made the head of the royal court.

Personal life and death

Prince Khalid married five times, and his first wife, Al Anoud, was a daughter of Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz. Then he married Maha bint Mohsen Nashi Al Sharif. Shams Al Baroudi, an Egyptian actress, was his next wife, and their marriage lasted only three months. Then he wed another Egyptian actress,

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, and the marriage lasted for a year. His marriage to the Lebanese singer

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lasted for only one month. Prince Khalid had a daughter who was born in 1974. Following the removal of King Saud in 1964 Khalid accompanied his father in exile, and was his only son who did not return to Saudi Arabia even for the funeral of his father in 1969. On 7 July 2020 Khalid bin Saud died at age 95 in an undisclosed foreign country.

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Khalid Khalid (variants include Khaled and Kalid; Arabic: خالد) is a popular Arabic male given name meaning "eternal, everlasting, immortal", and it also appears as a surname.

1925 births 2020 deaths

Khalid Khalid (variants include Khaled and Kalid; Arabic: خالد) is a popular Arabic male given name meaning "eternal, everlasting, immortal", and it also appears as a surname.