Faisal II , last king of Iraq

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This regicide marked the end of the thirty-seven-year-old Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, which then became a republic.Faisal was the only son of Iraq’s second king, Ghazi, and his wife Queen Aliya, second daughter of ‘Ali bin Hussein, King of the Hijaz and Grand Sharif of Mecca.

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