Al-Waleed was born in Jeddah on 7 March 1955 to Prince Talal bin Abdul-Aziz , long-time-known as '' The Red Prince '' , and Mona Al Solh , daughter of Riad Al Solh ( Lebanon 's first prime minister ) . His father was Saudi Arabia ’s finance minister during the early 1960s , before he went into exile due to his advocacy for political reform . Al-Waleed 's grandmother was Munaiyir , an Armenian whose family escaped the Armenian Genocide . She was presented by the emir of Unayza to Ibn Saud in 1921 , when she was 12 years old and Ibn Saud was 45
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Al-Waleed bin Talal