Sleeping Prince Al-Waleed bin Khaled bin Talal was studying at a military college in 2005 when he met with an unfortunate road accident in London that landed him in a coma.
Reports also claim that his other friends, sitting in the car, remained unharmed. After which, he suffered a brain haemorrhage and was in a coma. According to a report by Roya News, the prince has been on a ventilator since then. He has been fed through a feeding tube at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh for the past two decades.
It is reported that once a doctor advised Al-Waleed’s father, Prince Khalid bin Talal Al Saud, to end life support, he dismissed it as he hoped that one day his soul would wake up from his deep slumber.
He decided to fight for his son and claimed that if God wanted to end his life in a car accident, then he would have been visiting his grave. He said,
“If God had wanted him to die in the accident, he would have been in his grave now.” The sleeping prince’s mother, Reema also talked about feeling her son’s spirit present with them.
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According to reports, Prince Al-Waleed exhibited slight signs of awareness by lifting a finger or moving his head, but these gestures did not indicate a return to consciousness. These documented moments offered glimmers of hope to the family, but his return to normal life is a far-fetched dream.
Sleeping Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal is a member of the Saudi royal family. However, he is not directly linked to the current monarch. Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, grandfather was one of the many sons of King Abdulaziz Al Saud, who is known as the founding monarch of modern Saudi Arabia.
Hence, Prince Al-Waleed is the great-grandson of King Abdulaziz. Additionally, the current ruler, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, is also the son of King Abdulaziz. This makes him the great-uncle of the sleeping prince of Saudi Arabia
