Badr bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Badr bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1934 – 21 July 2004) (Arabic: بدر بن سعود آل سعود) was the governor of the Riyadh province for a short time[1] and was a member of the House of Saud.

Badr bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Governor of Riyadh
In officeJanuary 1963–February 1963
MonarchKing Saud
Born1934
Died21 July 2004(2004-07-21) (aged 69–70)
Burial
Al Oud cemetery, Riyadh
Full name
Badr bin Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud
HouseHouse of Saud
FatherKing Saud
MotherHaleema

Early life and education

Badr bin Saud was born in 1934. He was educated at the palace. He finished his secondary education at the Institute of Al Anjal.

Career

At the end of 1962 King Saud and Crown Prince Faisal were in a fratricidal feud over who should hold real power, In January 1963 King Saud fired most of the provincial governors, who may have been loyal to the Crown Prince Faisal. Prince Badr replaced Prince Fawaz bin Abdulaziz in the post of the governor of the Riyadh region on 20 January 1963. However, he was fired by Crown Prince Faisal within a mere two weeks on 4 February. He then went into private business, never serving in government again.

Exile

In 1964, King Saud was forced into exile in Geneva, Switzerland, and then on to other European cities. In 1966, Saud was invited by Nasser to live in Egypt; another report claims that King Saud went to Egypt under refuge granted by Nasser and stayed there from 1965 to 1967.[2] King Saud was also allowed to broadcast propaganda on Radio Cairo.[2] Prince Badr and some of his brothers, including Prince Khalid, Prince Sultan and Prince Mansour, joined their father and supported his attempt to regain the throne.[2]

Personal life and death

Prince Badr married four times: Sameera Al Muhanna, Buniah Al Meshaal Al Rasheed, Noura bint Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al Shuhail and Nora bint Fahd Al Qahtani. He had eight sons.

He died in 2004 at the age of 70 and was buried in Al Oud cemetery.

References
  1. "Princes". www.riyadh.gov.sa.
  2. Joseph A. Kechichian (2001). Succession in Saudi Arabia. New York: Palgrave. p. 9.


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