August 2nd, 2005
Early life and development
Fahd was a son of King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al-Saud, the first monarch and founder of modern Saudi Arabia. At the time of his birth, Fahd’s father was completing the consolidation of the House of Saud’s power on the Arabian Peninsula and the founding of Saudi Arabia.
At the age of nine in 1932, Fahd watched as his father officially founded the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by signing the Treaty of Jedda.