On Hajj with Faisal and Saud

(Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud / Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud). [Saud and Faisal on pilgrimage to Mecca - Photographs].

€ 5.000,00

Rare official government photographs of two kings of Saudi Arabia on the Hajj: HH Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1902-69), then ruler of Saudi Arabia, is flanked by his brother and soon-to-be successor, HH Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1906-75). The snapshots show the royal brothers, together and separately, on a pilgrimage to Mecca during Saud's reign. Few photographs of this trip survive, and these show both Saud and Faisal in conversation, saluted by a greeting party in Mecca, and in the traditional clothing of the Hajj. Though undated, the photographs are clearly from the era of Saud's reign, which stretched from 1953 to 1964. In 1964, Faisal staged a bloodless coup with the backing of the royal family and took over kingship of Saudi Arabia, while Saud proceeded to exile in Egypt and Greece.