Syria and France negotiated a treaty of independence in September 1936, and Hashim al-Atassi, who was Prime Minister under King Faisal's brief reign, was the first president to be elected under a new constitution, effectively the first incarnation of the modern republic of Syria.

King Faisal's statue at a square named after him at the end of Haifa Street in Baghdad.

Upon the accession of Prince Faisal's elder brother, King Saud, to the throne in 1953, Prince Faisal was appointed Crown Prince.

It was to be the defining act of King Faisal's career, and gained him lasting prestige among many Arabs and Muslims worldwide.

It is a commonly-held belief in Saudi Arabia, the Arab and Muslim world that King Faisal's oil boycott was the real cause of his assassination, via a Western conspiracy, his assassin having just returned from the United States ( see below ).

King Faisal's daughter, Haifa bint Faisal, is married to Bandar bin Sultan.

After his death, Faisal's family established the King Faisal Foundation, a philanthropic organisation.

The first shot hit King Faisal's chin and the second one went through King Faisal's ear.

The migration of Muslim Brotherhood members from Egypt to Saudi Arabia and Saudi King Faisal's " embrace of Salafi pan-Islamism resulted in cross-pollination between Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab's teachings on tawhid, shirk and bid ‘ ah and Salafi interpretations of the sayings of Muhammad.

However, Crown Prince Khalid was not active in daily issues, but acted as a representative during King Faisal's absences in meetings or ceremonies.

On the other hand, King Khalid failed to monopolize the power during his reign, leading to the empowerment of the princes who had been in powerful posts in late King Faisal's reign.

They further evidenced a marked preference for Nejdis, reversing King Faisal's close links with Hejazis.

In 1936, during the reign of Faisal's ineffectual son King Ghazi I, Sidqi, then acting commander of the Iraqi Army, staged what was probably the first modern military coup d ' état in the Arab world against the government of Yasin al-Hashimi.

Gouraud led French forces which crushed King Faisal's short-lived monarchy at the Battle of Maysalun on 23 July 1920, occupied Damascus, defeated the forces of the Syrian Revolution and established the French Mandate of Syria.

In March 1975, after King Faisal's assassination, then-Minister of Interior Prince Fahd became the crown prince.

Following Prince Faisal's accession to the throne after King Saud's deposition in 1964, the King Faisal continued to favor the Sudairi Seven as his allies.

Following the San Remo conference and the defeat of King Faisal's short-lived monarchy in Syria at the Battle of Maysalun, the French general Henri Gouraud, in breach of the conditions of the mandate, subdivided the French Mandate of Syria into six states.

King Faisal's death led to widespread predictions that Yamani would soon be replaced as oil minister.

This, along with his success before the Western media, fostered jealousy, especially amongst the Sudairi Seven and Fahd, to be Crown Prince under Faisal's frail and uninterested successor, King Khaled.

`` Do you mean to tell us '', a reporter asked, `` that the King has twenty-one children, twenty-five of whom are sons ''??

In April 871, King Æthelred died, and Alfred succeeded to the throne of Wessex and the burden of its defence, despite the fact that Æthelred left two under-age sons, Æthelhelm and Æthelwold.

The brothers had agreed that whichever of them outlived the other would inherit the personal property that King Æthelwulf had left jointly to his sons in his will.

Afonso married Beatrice of Castile ( 1293 – 1359 ) in 1309, daughter of Sancho IV, King of Castile, and María de Molina and had four sons and three daughters.

When King Constantine's eldest son Constans is murdered at Vortigern's instigation, the two remaining sons, Ambrosius and Uther, still very young, are quickly hustled into exile in Brittany.

Aegisthus and Thyestes thereafter ruled over Mycenae jointly, exiling Atreus ' sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus to Sparta, where King Tyndareus gave the pair his daughters, Clytemnestra and Helen, to take as wives.

King Joash of Judah was recorded as being assassinated by his own servants, Joab assassinated Absalom, King David's son and King Sennacherib of Assyria was assassinated by his own sons.

Chapters 17 to 27 describe the missionary labors of the sons of King Mosiah II who was the last king over the people of Nephi prior to the peaceful transition of the nation from a monarchy to a republican form of government.

This Bragi is the sixth of the second of two groups of nine sons fathered by King Hálfdan the Old on Alvig the Wise, daughter of King Eymund of Hólmgard.

At about this time, King John hesitated and sent his sons from the battlefield.

King Dost Mohammad Khan with one of his sons.

One source claimed that the Queen sent her younger sons to France ' to join with him against their father the King '.

Svend Aagesen's history of Denmark, Brevis Historia Regum Dacie ( circa 1186 ), states that Saxo had decided to write about " The king-father and his sons ," which would be King Sweyn Estridson, in Books 11, 12, and 13.

Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his sons King Henry VI and Duke Frederick V, Duke of Swabia | Frederick V of Swabia, Welfenchronik, 1167 / 79, Weingarten Abbey

Instead a young Danish Prince became King George I. George was a very popular choice as a constitutional monarch, and he agreed that his sons would be raised in the Greek Orthodox faith.

King Eurytus of Oechalia promised his daughter, Iole, to whoever could beat his sons in an archery contest.

* When Hippocoon overthrew his brother, Tyndareus, as King of Sparta, Heracles reinstated the rightful ruler and killed Hippocoon and his sons.

John, the youngest of five sons of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, was at first not expected to inherit significant lands.

King Ancus Marcius himself noticed Tarquinius and, by his will, appointed Tarquinius guardian of his own sons.

Upon its emergence in the early 17th century, the highland kingdom of Imerina was initially a minor power relative to the larger coastal kingdoms and grew even weaker in the early 18th century when King Andriamasinavalona divided it among his four sons.

Megara was one of the four districts of Attica, embodied in the four mythic sons of King Pandion II, of whom Nisos was the ruler of Megara.

" Maria Feodorovna was the younger sister of Alexandra, Queen Consort of King Edward VII and mother of George V of the United Kingdom, which helps to explain the striking resemblance between their sons Nicholas II and George V. Her older brother was King George I of Greece.