Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ( ar, الشيخ مشعل الأحمد الجابر الصباح, translit=ash-Shaykh Misha`al al-ʾAḥmad al-Jābir aṣ-Ṣabāḥ; also spelled Meshal, Mishaal or Meshaal; born 27 September 1940) is the
Crown Prince of Kuwait
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.
Aged , he is the oldest crown prince in the world.
Biography
Mishal is a son of Kuwaiti Emir
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and paternal half-brother of Emir
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ( ar, نواف الأحمد الجابر الصباح, translit=Nawwāf al-Ahmad al-Jābir as-Sabāh; born 25 June 1937) is the emir of Kuwait and the commander of the Kuwait Military Forces. On 29 September 202 ...
. He studied at the
Hendon Police College
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and graduated in 1960. He later served as the head of State Security from 1967 to 1980. Afterwards, he worked in the
Ministry of Interior
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until he became the deputy chief of the
National Guard
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Nat ...
with the rank of acting
minister (by
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designation) in 2004.
He was nominated Crown Prince of Kuwait on 7 October 2020. On 8 October, he officially became the crown prince of Kuwait.
On 19 September 2022, Mishal attended the
state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
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at
Westminster Abbey
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,
London
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.
See also
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List of current heirs apparent
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References
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20th-century Kuwaiti people
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Living people
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