Saudi Arabia’s ‘Sleeping Prince’, AI-Waleed bin Khalid bin Talal AI passed away on July 16, 2025, at the age of 36, after being in a coma for almost two decades. He met with a car accident in 2005, and since then, he had been in a coma. However, his family believed that one day he would wake up, and thus, continued providing him life support, despite people asking them to stop doing the same. Well, after 20 years, his long battle ended. Amid this, let us know what exactly happened to Sleeping Prince in the car accident.
What happened to the ‘Sleeping Prince’ of Saudi Arabia in the 2005 car accident?
For the unversed, ‘Sleeping Prince’ is the nephew of the billionaire businessman Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal and the eldest son of Prince Khaled bin Talal Al Saud. The ‘Sleeping Prince’ had some big dreams, which could be proved by the fact that he was studying in a military cadet school in the UK before he met with the tragic accident that took away 20 years of his life from him. It was in 2005 when he met with a car accident, which caused severe brain injury. The Sleeping Prince’s brain injury and brain trauma led to internal bleeding, and it ultimately led him to a coma.
