Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

He was born at Qasr Al Hukm in Riyadh on 13 February 1913; the Arabic article pairs the date with 6 Rabi' al-Awwal 1331 AH, while Wikidata carries conflicting values (13 February 1911 and the year 1912) that are not followed here. ^{1 2 3} He attended the Mufirej school in Riyadh, acquiring basic literacy and arithmetic, and at fourteen was sent by his father as his representative to the desert tribes. ¹ He served briefly as viceroy of Hejaz in the 1930s, visited the United States with Faisal in 1943 as the two kingdoms established diplomatic relations, became deputy prime minister in 1962, and was named crown prince in 1965 after his full brother Muhammad removed himself from the line of succession. ¹

Following the assassination of King Faisal on 25 March 1975, Khalid ascended the throne. ¹ His reign saw huge development in the country on the back of rising oil revenues, and in November 1979 armed civilians seized the Grand Mosque of Mecca; Saudi forces regained the mosque, and stricter religious policies followed. ¹ Contemporaries described him as warm, cheerful, attentive and devout, a king who listened carefully to his subjects at majlis. ¹

Khalid died of a heart attack on 13 June 1982 in his summer palace in Taif — the English article's text and infobox place his death there, against Wikidata's Riyadh value — and was buried the same day at Al Oud cemetery in Riyadh after funeral prayers at the Grand Mosque in Mecca; his half-brother Fahd succeeded him. ^{1 3}

No article text names a religious school for Khalid. The Arabic article's infobox religion field reads "Muslim Sunni" — a single structured value in one article; the English article calls him devout, which is piety rather than affiliation; his religious upbringing and schooling are formation; and Wikidata's only religion value is Islam, with no branch. ^{1 2 3} His faith is therefore recorded as unknown, with the Sunni reading preserved for the founder's attention.

He succeeded Faisal on the throne, and both that succession and his sonship of King Abdulaziz are written in this record. ¹

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