Jiddah, July 23: Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, a nephew of king Fahd who led a Saudi publishing empire and owned Kentucky Derby winner "war emblem," died on Monday of a heart attack at a hospital in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. He was 44.
Associates of prince Ahmed in Saudi Arabia and London mourned him as a popular figure and a prince who didn't put on airs.
"On a personal level, he was the kindest person I've ever seen - he was a prince without the airs," said Khalid al Maeena Editor-in-Chief of the Jiddah-based Arab news, one of nearly 20 publications owned by the Saudi research and marketing group. Prince Ahmed was chairman and majority owner of the company.
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