Saudi’s ‘Sleeping Prince’ dies at 36 after 20 years in a coma

For two decades, Prince Al-Waleed bin Khaled bin Talal Al Saud lay suspended in a coma, his body unmoving while the world around him changed. Yet inside the hospital room in Riyadh, time was measured differently: in whispered prayers, quiet tears, and the rustle of his father’s robes as he stood faithfully at his bedside. Prince Khaled refused to see his son as a lost cause; he saw him as a living trust from God, deserving of love, dignity, and presence.