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Faisal II
Faisal in the 1950s
King of Iraq
Reign
4 April 1939 – 14 July 1958
Regency ended
2 May 1953
Predecessor
Ghazi I
Successor
Monarchy abolished
(Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i, President of Iraq)
(Zeid bin Hussein as head of Iraqi and Syrian royal family)
Prime Minister
See list
Nuri al-Said (7 times)
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani (twice)
Taha al-Hashimi
Jamil al-Midfai (twice)
Hamdi al-Pachachi
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi (twice)
Arshad al-Umari (Twice)
Salih Jabr
Muhammad as-Sadr
Muzahim al-Pachachi
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi (twice)
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari
Nureddin Mahmud
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban
Regent (1939–1953)
Prince 'Abd al-Ilah
Born
(1935-05-02)2 May 1935 Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq
Died
14 July 1958(1958-07-14) (aged 23) Baghdad, Arab Federation
Burial
Iraqi Royal Cemetery, Baghdad[1]
Names
Faisal bin Ghazi bin Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali
House
Hashemite
Father
Ghazi I
Mother
Aliya of Hejaz
Religion
Sunni Islam[2]
Faisal II (Arabic: الملك فيصل الثاني, romanized: al-Malik Fayṣal al-thānī; 2 May 1935 – 14 July 1958) was the last King of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was killed during the 14 July Revolution. This regicide marked the end of the thirty-seven-year-old Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, which then became a republic.
The only son of King Ghazi and Queen Aliya of Iraq, Faisal acceded to the throne at the age of three after his father was killed in a car crash. A regency was set up under his uncle Prince 'Abd al-Ilah.[3] In 1941, a pro-Axis coup d'état overthrew the regent. The British responded by initiating an invasion of Iraq a month later and restored 'Abd al-Ilah to power. During the Second World War, Faisal was evacuated along with his mother to the United Kingdom. There, he attended Harrow School alongside his cousin Hussein, the future King of Jordan.[3] The regency ended in May 1953 when Faisal came of age.
The overthrow of the Egyptian monarchy in 1953 and the formation of the United Arab Republic in February 1958 only provided impetuses to ideas of a revolution. The Hashemite Arab Federation was formed between Iraq and Jordan in February 1958 with Faisal as its head, which did not quell widespread opposition. In July 1958, a group of Royal Iraqi Army officers led by Abd al-Karim Qasim mounted a coup d'état and overthrew the monarchy. Faisal was executed along with numerous members of his family in the process.
^"Iraq renovates Baghdad's Royal Cemetery before King Abdullah visit". Sawt Beirut International. 28 March 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
^"IRAQ – Resurgence in the Shiite World – Part 8 – Jordan & The Hashemite Factors". APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map. 2005.
^ abAl Sahly, Suadad; Lessware, Jonathan (14 July 2018). "60 years on, Iraqis reflect on the coup that killed King Faisal II". Arab News. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
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