Faisal II

A regency under his uncle Prince Abd al-Ilah governed in his name while he was educated in Britain, at Harrow School alongside his cousin Hussein, the future king of Jordan. The regency ended with his majority and coronation on 2 May 1953. His reign unfolded against rising pan-Arab nationalism, economic inequality and growing communist organisation; the English article describes a reign marked by tolerance and co-existence with other faiths and branches of Islam, and by public works such as irrigation projects. In practice he relied on the counsel of the regent and of the veteran prime minister Nuri al-Said. ^{1 2}

On 14 July 1958 an army coup led by Abdul-Karim Qasim and Abdul Salam Arif overthrew the monarchy. Faisal was killed at the Rihab Palace in Baghdad with members of his family, and the Iraqi Republic was proclaimed; his article names Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i, chairman of the Sovereignty Council, as the successor office-holder of the abolished monarchy. He was buried in the Iraqi Royal Cemetery in Baghdad. ^{1 2}

His faith is recorded as unknown. The English article's infobox names his religion as Sunni Islam, citing a 2005 news article; Wikidata gives only Islam in general, and the Arabic article files him under "Iraqi Sunni Muslims" without naming a school in its text. One infobox and category filings do not meet the museum's two-source bar for naming a school. ^{1 3}