Haya bint Saad Al Sudairi

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| spouse = {{marriage|Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia|1927|1953|end=died}}

| issue = {{Collapsible list|state=collapsed|Prince Badr|Prince Abdul Majid|Prince Abdul Illah|Princess Meshail|Princess Hessa}}

| full name = Haya bint Saad bin Abdul Muhsin Al Sudairi{{cite news|author=Mustafa Al Sadawi|archive-date=30 May 2021

|title=نفحات من زوجات الملك عبد العزيز.. أمهات ملوك المملكة|url=https://www.sayidaty.net/node/725051/أسرة-ومجتمع/تحقيقات-الساعة/نفحات-من-زوجات-الملك-عبد-العزيز-أمهات-ملوك-المملك|access-date=2 July 2021|work=Sayidaty|date=24 May 2018|language=ar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210530091222/https://www.sayidaty.net/node/725051/%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B9/%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A9/%D9%86%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B2-%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%84%D9%88%D9%83-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83}}

| father = Saad bin Abdul Muhsin Al Sudairi

| birth_date = 1913

| death_date = 18 April {{death year and age|2003|1913}}

| death_place = Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

| burial_place = Al Oud cemetery, Riyadh

| house = {{ubl|Al Sudairi (by birth)|Al Saud (by marriage)}}

}}

Haya bint Saad Al Sudairi ({{langx|ar|هيا بنت سعد السديري}} Hayā bint Saʿad Āl Sudayrī; 1913 – 18 April 2003) was one of the spouses of King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia. She was a member of the powerful Sudairi family.{{cite book|author=Sharaf Sabri|title=The House of Saud in Commerce: A Study of Royal Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=51Bb8Ix7xw8C&pg=PA21|year=2001|page=21

|publisher=I.S. Publications|isbn=978-81-901254-0-6|location=New Delhi}}{{cite journal|author=Hamid Hussain|title=Royal Rumble-Dynamics of Saudi Royal Family|url=https://www.brownpundits.com/2017/07/31/royal-rumble-dynamics-of-saudi-royal-family/|journal=Defence Journal

|date=August 2017|volume=21|issue=1}} Her elder sister, Al Jawhara bint Saad, married Abdulaziz and had three sons and a daughter with him.{{cite book|author=Joseph A. Kechichian|title=Succession in Saudi Arabia|year=2001|publisher=Palgrave|location=New York

|isbn=9780312238803|url=https://archive.org/details/successioninsaud00kech|url-access=registration|author-link=Joseph A. Kéchichian}} Following the death of Al Jawhara in 1927, Haya married Abdulaziz. Their marriage also produced three sons and two daughters: Princess Hessa, Princess Meshail, Prince Badr, Prince Abdul Majid and Prince Abdul Illah.{{cite web|title=Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman ibn Faisal Al Saud (Ibn Saud) (1880 - 1953)

|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/abdul-aziz-bin-abdul-rahman-ibn-faisal-al-saud-ibn-saud|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|access-date=2 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418050231/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/abdul-aziz-bin-abdul-rahman-ibn-faisal-al-saud-ibn-saud|archive-date=18 April 2021}}{{cite book|title=Saudi Arabia. A Country Study|publisher=The American University|isbn=978-0-16-001616-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qj4IAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA396|year=1984|page=396|editor=Richard F. Nyrop|location=Washington, DC}}

On 7 February 1999 as part of the centennial celebrations of Riyadh's capture by Abdulaziz an interview with Haya bint Saad was published in Al Jazirah, a Saudi Arabian newspaper.{{cite book|author=Elie Podeh|title=The Politics of National Celebrations in the Arab Middle East|year=2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511734748|pages=279–280|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-1107684997|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511734748 }} She argued "whatever has been and will be said about the King [Abdulaziz] cannot reflect the [whole] truth."

Haya bint Saad died at age 90 in Riyadh on 18 April 2003.{{cite news|title=Princess Haya bint Saad Al Sudairi, 90, Wife of Modern Saudi Arabia Founder|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-05-07-0305060597-story.html|access-date=2 July 2021|work=Sun Sentinel

|archive-date=11 December 2019|date=7 May 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211134550/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-05-07-0305060597-story.html|location=Riyadh}} She was buried in the Al Oud cemetery there.

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