Abstract
In 1951 The Statesman’s Year Book could describe Ibn Saud as follows:
The King has over 30 sons of whom the following are the most prominent:- Saud, born 1905, the heir apparent; Faisal, born 1907 the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Viceroy in the Hejaz; Mansour, born 1921, the Minister of Defence; Mohammed, born 1913, the Amir of Medina.1
Assuredly there will be no hoarded treasure at the death of Abdul-Aziz to be passed on to his family.
K. Williams, Ibn Saud, p. 256
Do heroes make good rulers? Not this one.
D. van der Meulen, 1952, after farewell visit to Ibn Saud, in Wells of Ibn Saud, p. 257
He certainly died with the feeling that his British friends had never shown any disposition to redress the one personal grievance which he had of them (the Buraimi dispute).
Philby on Ibn Saud’s death, in Forty Years in the Wilderness, p. 214
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See Burke’s Royal Families of the World, Vol. II, London, 1980, p. 210.
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McLoughlin, L. (1993). The End, 1951–53. In: Ibn Saud. St Antony's. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22578-1_11
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