A Saudi Arabian royal who spent more than two decades in a coma after a horror car crash in London has died at the age of 36.<\/p>\n
Prince Al-Waleed bin Khalid Al-Saud suffered a brain haemorrhage and internal bleeding in the horrific accident in 2005, when he was just 15 years old.<\/p>\n
Widely known as the \u201cSleeping Prince\u201d, he was kept on a ventilator in hospital \u2013 but never regained full consciousness.<\/p>\n
Prince Al-Waleed was the eldest son of Prince Khaled bin Talal Al Saud, who confirmed his death in a heartbreaking post on X today.<\/p>\n
Quoting a verse from the Quran, he wrote: \u201cWith hearts believing in Allah\u2019s will and decree, and with deep sorrow and sadness, we mourn our beloved son: Prince Al-Waleed bin Khaled bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, may Allah have mercy on him, who passed away today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prince Al-Waleed bin Khalid Al-Saud died at the age of 36. News.com.au<\/p>\n
The prince had been in a coma since 2005. News.com.au<\/p>\n
Prince Al-Waleed was studying at a military college in London when he was involved in the devastating car crash.<\/p>\n
After the accident, he was hospitalized at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Saudi Arabia\u2019s capital Riyadh, where he remained in a coma ever since.<\/p>\n
Prince Al-Waleed\u2019s father never gave up hope that his son would one day make a full recovery.<\/p>\n
He remained involved in the prince\u2019s care and firmly rejected calls to withdraw life support.<\/p>\n
The hashtag \u201cSleeping Prince\u201d has widely trended on social media following the announcement, with thousands offering their condolences.<\/p>\n
\u201cMay Prince Al-Waleed bin Khaled, Rest In Peace. Deepest sympathies to his loved ones,\u201d one wrote.<\/p>\n
The prince suffered a brain haemorrhage and internal bleeding after a car crash when he was 15 years old. News.com.au<\/p>\n
Prince Al-Waleed\u2019s father always hoped his son would make a full recovery. News.com.au<\/p>\n
\u201cYour time on earth was a blessing to your family and the world in general,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMay his gentle soul rest in perfect peace,\u201d a third said.<\/p>\n
Funeral prayers for the prince will be held today at Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque in Riyadh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Saudi Arabian royal who spent more than two decades in a coma after a horror car crash…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,23221,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,54015,271,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-78120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-coma","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-prince","17":"tag-saudi-arabia","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa","24":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114885879803729688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}