Following the end of the war with Yemen, Ibn Saud decided to encourage Saud to travel abroad. Accompanied by his father's adviser, Fuad Hamzah and Physician Dr. Medhat Sheikh el-Ard and some others, he visited: Transjordan, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt and Europe where he represented his father at the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937. Saud struck a warm friendship with the young King Ghazi of Iraq I, and earned plaudits from the Amir and later King Abdullah I of Jordan & Transjordan, who said to him: in his character, he represented the choicest and purest of the traits and attributes of the Arabian Peninsula.