Faisal II of Iraq, the last King of Iraq (died 1958)

Faisal II

King of Iraq from 1939 to 1958

Faisal II was the last King of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was killed during the 14 July Revolution. This regicide marked the end of the thirty-seven-year-old Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, which then became a republic.