Al Walid bin Khalid bin Talal al Saud is called “The ‘Sleeping Prince'”: he has been alive for 17 years.
Princess Rima bint Talal shared a video of her nephew, Prince Al Waleed bin Khaled bin Talal, known as “the sleeping prince”, who fell into a coma more than 15 years ago after a car accident.
The prince, hospitalized after a car accident in 2005, is the grandson of Saudi billionaire investor Alwaleed bin Talal. “My beloved, may God protect, heal and restore you,” Princess Rima wrote on Twitter.
The video shared by Princess Rima, sister of Prince Khaled bin Talal, shows Prince Al Waleed connected to a life support machine, covered with a Saudi flag reading “Our country is in our hearts”.
He has been in a coma since 2005, without significant changes.
His father, Prince Khaled, hopes his son will make a full recovery. “Someone asked me: why don’t you disconnect your child’s devices? I replied that if it was God’s will for him to die in the accident, then my son would be in the grave “Prince Khaled had said.
In October 2020, his sister, Princess Noura bint Talal, had tweeted a video of Prince Al Waleed moving his fingers.
One of the last images of the prince, in a coma since 2005.
“Dear son of the beloved Khalid bin Talal Al Waleed, praise Allah, who gives life to whomever he wills by his order. Praise God, who has restored you to health, so do not despair with the power of God,” he wrote on Twitter. .
The story of the sleeping prince
He was 18 when he had a serious car accident in London. Since 2005, Al Walid bin Khalid bin Talal al Saud, the prince of Saudi Arabia, he is in a coma due to his parents’ refusal to follow the doctor’s advice and to disconnect him from the machine that keeps him alive.
Al Walid bin Khalid bin Talal al Saud is called “The ‘Sleeping Prince'”.
The millionaire’s family doesn’t want to disconnect him because they insure him “God is able to bring him back to life.”
After his tragic accident, he spent nearly ten years in the intensive care unit of a Riyadh hospital. Seven years ago he was transferred to the family residence, according to a report by journalist Francisco Carrión in an El Mundo report.
The billionaire prince of Saudi Arabia who has been in a coma for more than 15 years. Photo: Twitter @Reem_Alwaleed
For a while, social networks were inundated with rumors about his health, even giving him up for dead. The family has denied it multiple times on Twitter.
His father Khaled bin Talalhe refuses to turn it off and claims that one day a miracle will happen that will allow him to “get his life back”.
“God who has guarded his soul for more than a decade is able to bring him back to life,” Khaled bin Talal said in 2020.
Al Walid and Mohamed are grandsons of one of Saudi Arabia’s major fortunes, billionaire Al Walid bin Talal. The most atypical and liberal of the Saudi princes, with millions of followers on social networks, is the owner of Kingdom Holding, the company that brings together assets scattered around the world with a wealth that Forbes magazine calculates a 17,000 million dollars (approximately 14,000 million euros). Has stock in Apple, Twitter, Citigroup, Four Seasons or Disney.
Father Khaled bin Talal’s clan is well positioned in the royal family of Saudi Arabia. Grandfather, who died in 2018, was King Salman’s brother and served as finance minister in the early 1960s.
Khaled bin Talal maintains political discrepancies with the Saudi Arabian administration. He was arrested in 2017 for showing his rejection of “the real decision to deprive the controversial religious police of the power to sign arrests,” says El Mundo. He has spent several years in prison, but is currently free and awaits the improvement of his children. Mohamed and Al Walid bin Khalid bin Talal al Saud.
Source: Clarin
