Abd al-Ilah ibn Ali ibn Hussein
(b. 1912, d. 14 July 1958). Regent of Iraq Born in Hejaz as the grandson of
Hussein ibn Ali
, he became regent of Iraq for his 4–year-old cousin
Faisal II
, after the death of his brother-in-law, King Ghazi. Strongly pro-British throughout his life, in 1941 he was expelled by a group of pro-German ...