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.

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 sons have held and continue to hold important positions within the Saudi government.

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.

Colonial soldiers standing guard next to the statue of King Willem III of the Netherlands, representing Dutch empire | Dutch dominance on Banda.

According to the Nihon Shoki, Emperor Kimmei received a bronze statue of Buddha as a gift from the king of Paekche King Song Myong ( 聖明王, Seimei Ō ) along with a significant envoy of artisans, monks, and other artifacts in 552.

Equestrian statue of King Saint Louis at the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, Paris | Sacré-Cœur.

* 1868 – The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King's garden in Stockholm.

King Stephen's statue in his hometown, Esztergom

One of the most notable statues in the National Statuary Hall is a bronze statue of King Kamehameha donated by the state of Hawaii upon its accession to the union in 1959.

King led the effort to raise a memorial to Harper, which resulted in the erection of the Sir Galahad statue on Parliament Hill in 1905.

There is a similar great legend in Prague which says that when the Motherland is in danger or in its darkest times and close to ruin, the equestrian statue of King Wenceslaus in Wenceslaus Square will come to life, raise the army sleeping in Blaník, and upon crossing the Charles Bridge his horse will stumble and trip over a stone, revealing the legendary sword of Bruncvík.

Hamo Thornycroft | Hamo Thornycroft's statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester.

Bronze Statue of Queen Elizabeth on The Mall, London, overlooked by the statue of her husband King George VI

Her father, King Philip, known as " le Bel " ( the Fair ) because of his good looks, was a strangely unemotional man ; contemporaries described him as " neither a man nor a beast, but a statue "; modern historians have noted that he " cultivated a reputation for Christian kingship and showed few weaknesses of the flesh ".

The site of the cross is now occupied by an equestrian statue of King Charles I.

Since 1675 the original site of the cross has been occupied by a statue of King Charles I mounted on a horse.

A prominent pillory, where malefactors were publicly flogged, was situated next to the statue of King Charles.

The quality workmanship in the carving would not have fit into the incorrect assessment of Hellenistic art and the plinth mysteriously disappeared shortly before the statue was presented to King Louis XVIII in 1821 and evidence of it only survives in two drawings and an early description.

* Jardin Place Jean Bayol is a large plaza which contains a statue of the first King of Porto-Novo.

There is nothing in the tomb beneath the statue, the relics of the king having been lost in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 by King Henry VIII.

In Oscar Wilde's story " The Young King ", a reference is made to the king kissing a statue of ' the Bithynian slave of Hadrian ' in a passage describing the young king's aesthetic sensibilities and his "... strange passion for beauty ...".

Perhaps the most notable of these are the Apollo Sauroktonos, or the lizard-slayer, a youth leaning against a tree and idly striking with an arrow at a lizard ( Louvre Museum ), and the Aphrodite of Cnidus at the Vatican Museums, which is a copy of the statue made by Praxiteles for the people of Cnidus, and by them valued so highly that they refused to sell it to King Nicomedes, who was willing in return to discharge the whole debt of the city, which, says Pliny, was enormous.

Diomedes, King of Argos-Roman copy of a statue by Kresilas from ca.

It has a deep Roman porch with six huge Corinthian columns, and is notable for its steeple based on the Tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus and for the statue of King George I on the top.

When Millais died in 1896, the Prince of Wales ( later to become King Edward VII ) chaired a memorial committee, which commissioned a statue of the artist.

It also features a tall statue of King Kong known as the " World's Largest King Kong ".

The walled property also features a triple-pyramid garage, a great 64 ft. tall statue of Ramesses II, and a recreation of King Tutankhamun's tomb.