His parents married in the face of opposition from a personage no less than the greatest Safavid King of Iran, Shah Abbas. He was their first child, and when he was born his parents' joy knew no bounds.
The astrologers, however, played spoilsport. The child was promised for great things, they said, but for that it was essential to follow a stipulation: The child couldn't meet his father till he was twelve years old.
the caveat was still followed down to the letter. But when finally the time came for the child to meet his sire, the latter passed away after a brief illness.
So the child succeeded to his father's throne without ever having met his father.
Meet Abdullah, the seventh Qutb Shahi Sultan of Golconda.