Hope Renewed as Prince Al-Waleed Reportedly Wakes Up After 20 Years in Coma

Prince Al-Waleed, son of Saudi billionaire Prince Khaled bin Talal, has reportedly regained consciousness after spending nearly two decades in a coma following a tragic car accident in the United Kingdom in 2005.

The accident, which occurred while the young prince was studying at a military college in the UK, left him on life support at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh. Since then, he has depended on a feeding tube and showed only minimal signs of responsiveness — including brief finger movements in 2019.

Despite medical advice in 2015 to discontinue life support, Prince Khaled held firm in his belief that a miracle was possible, saying, “If God wanted him to die in the accident, he would have already been buried.”

Now, a flurry of online reports suggests that Prince Al-Waleed has awakened, 20 years after the devastating crash. However, as of now, there has been no official confirmation from the family or close sources regarding this development.

 

The Sleeping Prince of Saudi is finally awake, after been in a coma for 20yearspic.twitter.com/8wQMR104dh

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