Saudi ‘sleeping prince’ dies after 19 years in coma

Prince Al-Waleed bin Khalid Al-Saud lying down while his father stares at him.

Prince Al-Waleed bin Khalid Al-Saud, a Saudi royal widely known as the “Sleeping Prince,” has died at the age of 36, nearly two decades after a car accident left him in a coma.

The prince was just 15 years old when he suffered a brain haemorrhage and internal bleeding in a devastating car crash in London in 2005.

He never regained full consciousness and was kept on life support at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, until his death.

His father, Prince Khaled bin Talal Al Saud, confirmed the passing in a post on X on Saturday. Punch