Why should any crown prince of Japan start his tours by visiting Saudi Arabia?

The King Abdulaziz House in Saudi Arabia revealed the reason why every crown prince in Japan visits the Kingdom on their first official foreign tour.

The "King Abdulaziz" House said on its Twitter account: "The story goes back 71 years," explaining: "When King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, then Prince Fahd, participated in the coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II in London in 1953. AD, on behalf of his father, King Abdulaziz, noted that the Crown Prince of Japan “Aki Hito” came after him in the seating arrangement according to the protocol of the English royal palace, so he allowed his submission to precede him in the arrangement based on Hito’s position as crown prince.. This historical position was preserved by the Japanese Empire, and decided In appreciation of this, that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the first country visited by the Japanese Crown Prince, and that this becomes a permanent tradition for all the Crown Princes in Japan.”

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