Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud (born 1977)
{{distinguish|text=Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud (born 1951)}}
{{Family name hatnote|lang=Arabic|Al Saud}}
{{Short description|Saudi royal (born 1977)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}}
{{Infobox royalty
| image = HRH Prince Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud (52536143954) (cropped).jpg
| spouse = {{marriage|Lucy Cuthbert|2011}}
| succession = Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United Kingdom
| reign = 27 March 2019 – present
| reign-type = In office
| regent = Salman
| reg-type = Monarch
| succession1 = Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Germany
| reign1 = June 2017 – 27 March 2019
| reign-type1 = In office
| regent1 = Salman
| reg-type1 = Monarch
| successor1 = Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud
| house = Al Saud
| father = Bandar bin Sultan
| mother = Haifa bint Faisal
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1977}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
}}
Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud ({{langx|ar|خالد بن بندر بن سلطان بن عبد ٱلعزيز آل سعود|translit=Ḫālid bin Bandar bin Sulṭān bin ʿAbdu l ʿAzīz ʾĀl Suʿūd}}; born 1977) is the Saudi ambassador to the United Kingdom{{Cite news|url=https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=1901160|title=Minister of Foreign Affairs Receives Deputy National Security Adviser|date=19 March 2019|work=Saudi Press Agency|access-date=21 March 2019}} and a member of the House of Saud.
{{Infobox royal styles
|royal name = Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
|image = 50px
|dipstyle = His Royal Highness
|offstyle = Your Royal Highness
}}
Early life and education
|language=ar|date=17 October 2019}} Khalid bin Bandar is the son of Bandar bin Sultan and Haifa bint Faisal Al Saud.{{cite book|author=Sharaf Sabri|title=The House of Saud in commerce: A study of royal entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia|year=2001|publisher=I.S. Publications|location=New Delhi|isbn=81-901254-0-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=51Bb8Ix7xw8C&pg=PA105}} His paternal grandfather is Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The parents of his mother are King Faisal bin Abdulaziz and Iffat bint Mohammad Al Thunayan.{{cite book|author=Steve Coll|author-link=Steve Coll|title=The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|year=2008|isbn=978-1-101-20272-2|location=New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M8dSD-CQOTYC&pg=PT163|page=163}}
Khalid bin Bandar attended Eton College before going up to Pembroke College, Oxford, where he graduated in Oriental studies. He also attended Sandhurst Military Academy, graduating as a commissioned officer, before becoming a post-graduate at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.{{Cite news|title=Prince Khaled bin Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi ambassador to the UK|url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/1483626/saudi-arabia|date=17 April 2019|work=Arab News|access-date=19 April 2021}}{{Cite news|work=Arabian Business|url=https://www.arabianbusiness.com/media/439749-saudi-prince-named-alongside-thunberg-beckham-meghan-markle-in-top-50-shaping-the-uk|title=Saudi Prince named alongside Thunberg, Beckham and Meghan Markle in top 50 shaping the UK|date=10 February 2020|access-date=19 January 2021}}
Career
Khalid bin Bandar started his career working at the United Nations' department of political affairs in New York.{{cite web|title=Board Members|url=http://www.dayimholdings.com/ourteam.php|publisher=Dayım Holdings|access-date=13 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121126075212/http://www.dayimholdings.com/ourteam.php|archive-date=26 November 2012|url-status=dead}} He worked for three years as an advisor to the Saudi Ambassador in Washington DC. He is the executive chairman of Dayim Holdings founded in 2006.{{cite web|author1=Mehran Kamrava|author2=Gerd Nonneman|author3=Anastasia Nosova|author4=Marc Valeri|title=Ruling Families and Business Elites in the Gulf Monarchies: Ever Closer?|url=https://www.chathamhouse.org/2016/11/ruling-families-and-business-elites-gulf-monarchies-ever-closer-0/ruling-families|work=Chatham House|access-date=15 October 2020|format=Research paper|date=3 November 2016|author2-link=Gerd Nonneman}} He is also an acting general manager of Al Hama Company, a Saudi-based retail company, and the chairman of Byblos Real Estate Development Company based in the United Arab Emirates.{{cite web|url=http://www.weforum.org/young-global-leaders/hrh-prince-khalid-bin-bandar-bin-sultan|title=H.R.H. Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan|publisher=World Economic Forum|access-date=19 December 2012}}
In June 2017, he became the Saudi ambassador to Germany.[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-saudi-fp-comment-96961b94-c655-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0-20171110-story.html Meet the next generation of Saudi rulers] Simon Henderson. 10 November 2017, Chicago Tribune In 2019, he was made the Saudi ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Personal life
Khalid dated and lived with Vanessa Haydon, the future wife of Donald Trump Jr., from 1998 to 2001.{{cite web|url=https://people.com/politics/vanessa-trump-almost-married-a-saudi-prince-donald-trump-jr/|title=Vanessa Trump Almost Married a Saudi Prince Before Donald Trump Jr.: Report|work=People|date=14 May 2018}} They intended to marry, but broke up after the September 11 attacks when he left the U.S. after his father was suspected of having indirect ties to the hijackers.{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/05/did-911-keep-vanessa-trump-from-marrying-a-saudi-prince|title=Did 9/11 Keep Vanessa Trump from Marrying a Saudi Prince?|work=Vanity Fair|author=Erika Harwood|date=14 May 2018}}
In Oxford in March 2011, Khalid married Lucy Caroline Cuthbert (born 1982), daughter of John Aidan Cuthbert, of Beaufront Castle, Hexham, Northumberland, and Lady Victoria Lucy Diana (daughter of Hugh Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland),Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 2, p. 2948 and thus, niece of Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland, at a ceremony attended by a handful of guests.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/another-royal-wedding-saudi-prince-marries-englishwoman/|title=Another royal wedding: Saudi prince marries Englishwoman|publisher=CBS News|date=30 March 2011|access-date=19 December 2012}}{{cite news
|title=Saudi prince weds in Oxford register office|url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/8937933.Saudi_prince_weds_in_Oxford_register_office/
|access-date=13 April 2013|newspaper=The Oxford Times|date=29 March 2011}}
Ancestry
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|1= 1. Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud
|2= 2. Bandar bin Sultan
|3= 3. Haifa bint Faisal
|4= 4. Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
|5= 5. Khiziran
|6= 6. Faisal of Saudi Arabia
|7= 7. Iffat bin
|8= 8. Ibn Saud
|9= 9. Hussa bint Ahmed Al Sudairi
|12= 12. Ibn Saud
|13= 13. Tarfa bint Abdullah Al Sheikh
|14= 14. Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Thunayan Al Saud
|15= 15. Asia}}
References
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Category:21st-century Saudi Arabian diplomats
Category:Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford
Category:Ambassadors of Saudi Arabia to Germany
Category:Ambassadors of Saudi Arabia to the United Kingdom
Category:Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst