Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud | |
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Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United Kingdom | |
In office | 27 March 2019 – present |
Monarch | Salman |
Saudi Ambassador to Germany | |
In office | June 2017 – 27 March 2019 |
Successor | Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud |
Monarch | Salman |
Born | 1977 (age 46–47) Paris, France |
Spouse |
Lucy Cuthbert (
m. 2011) |
House | Al Saud |
Father | Bandar bin Sultan |
Mother | Haifa bint Faisal |
Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud ( Arabic: خالد بن بندر بن سلطان بن عبد ٱلعزيز آل سعود, romanized: Ḫālid bin Bandar bin Sulṭān bin ʿAbdu l ʿAzīz ʾĀl Suʿūd; born 1977) is the Saudi ambassador to the United Kingdom [1] and a member of the House of Saud.
Styles of Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | |
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Reference style | His Royal Highness |
Spoken style | Your Royal Highness |
Born in 1977 in Paris, [2] Khalid bin Bandar is the son of Bandar bin Sultan and Haifa bint Faisal Al Saud. [3] 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. [4]
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, [5] before becoming a post-graduate at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. [6] [7]
Khalid bin Bandar started his career working at the United Nations' department of political affairs in New York. [5] 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. [8] 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. [9]
In June 2017, he became the Saudi ambassador to Germany. [6] [10] In 2019, he was made the Saudi ambassador to the United Kingdom. [1]
Khalid dated and lived with Vanessa Hayden, the future wife of Donald Trump Jr., from 1998 to 2001. [11] 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. [12]
In Oxford in March 2011, Khalid married Lucy Caroline Cuthbert (born 1982), [6] daughter of John Aidan Cuthbert, of Beaufront Castle, Hexham, Northumberland, and Lady Victoria Lucy Diana (daughter of Hugh Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland), [13] and thus, niece of Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland, at a ceremony attended by a handful of guests. [14] [15]
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