Prince Alwaleed bin Khaled bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s ‘Sleeping Prince’, has died at the age of 36 after spending nearly 20 years in a coma following a 2005 car accident in London. His father, Prince Khaled bin Talal bin Abdulaziz, confirmed the news of his son’s passing. Funeral prayers for Prince Alwaleed will be held on Sunday (July 20) after the Asr prayer at Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque in Riyadh.
Prince Al-Waleed suffered severe brain injuries and internal bleeding in the horrific accident when he was just 15 years old in 2005. Since then, he was kept on a ventilator but never regained full consciousness. Despite treatment from specialists from America and Spain, he never came out of the coma apart from showing slight movements. At the time of the accident, Prince Al-Waleed was studying at a military college in London.
Following the accident, he was hospitalized at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh where he remained in a coma. Social media clips shared in 2020 showed Prince Al-Waleed lifting his fingers as a woman greeted him. His father cared for him throughout the past two decades and opposed withdrawing life support. Born in April 1990, Prince Al Waleed was the eldest son of Prince Khaled bin Talal Al Saud, a prominent Saudi royal and nephew of billionaire Prince Al Waleed bin Talal.
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