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Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had.
Robert Lacey
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Robert Lacey
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 3
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