{"id":50712,"date":"2017-09-09T16:46:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T16:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/competitions\/10-things-to-know-about-crown-prince-of-saudi-arabia1\/"},"modified":"2017-09-09T16:46:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T16:46:24","slug":"10-things-to-know-about-crown-prince-of-saudi-arabia1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/jeddah\/en\/feature\/10-things-to-know-about-crown-prince-of-saudi-arabia1\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things To Know About Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince HH Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/p>\nHH Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud being our current Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, is also the First Deputy Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia and the youngest minister of defence in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, apart from all the social and economic progressions and positive changes he is bringing to the Kingdom with his leadership, there are a few other things you might not already know about him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here’s a few of them:<\/p>\n
He has a vision 2030 and its core is to create a diversity by modernising Saudi\u2019s society and the economy (via news.com.au).\u00a0He also plans for Saudi\u2019s revenue to be less dependent on oil and has opened up the tourism sector for the country.<\/p>\n
Crown Prince gave this statement to Washington Post<\/em> in an interview<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0“I’m young. 70% of our citizens are young,” he said. “We don’t want to waste our lives in this whirlpool that we were in the past 30 years. We want to end this epoch now. We want, as the Saudi people, to enjoy the coming days, and concentrate on developing our society and developing ourselves as individuals and families, while retaining our religion and customs. We will not continue to be in the post-’79 era,” he concluded. “That age is over.”<\/p>\n And is the older brother of Turki bin Salman who was the chairman of the Saudi Research and Marketing Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n Yep, our Crown Prince is a born Jeddawi<\/p>\n Here’s a chart of the family tree, for your reference. Whoah.\u00a0<\/p>\n That’s approx\u00a011,251,050,000 SAR btw.<\/p>\n <\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HH Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud being our current Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, is also the First Deputy Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia and the youngest minister of defence in the world.\u00a0 However, apart from all the social and economic progressions and positive changes he is bringing to the Kingdom with his … ","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature","category-news","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"legacy_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/_relatedEntryImage2x\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-06-at-12.25.23-AM.png?mtime=20170905222530","legacy_full_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/_featuredImage\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-06-at-12.25.23-AM.png?mtime=20170905222530 880w","legacy_meta_tags":"<\/figure>\n
4. He received a bachelor’s degree in law from King Saud University\u00a0<\/h3>\n
5. He is the eldest of his full siblings<\/h3>\n
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6. He was born in Jeddah!\u00a0<\/h3>\n
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7. He’s married to\u00a0Sara bint Mashoor bin Abdulaziz Al Saud<\/h3>\n
8. He is an offspring from a long lineage of rulers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia\u00a0<\/h3>\n
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9. He is approximately 6’0ft tall\u00a0<\/h3>\n
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10. He is worth\u00a0US$3 billion!<\/h3>\n
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