Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud ( 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 and a member of the

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Early life and education

Born in 1977 in Paris, Khalid bin Bandar is the son of

Bandar bin Sultan Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud (born 2 March 1949) is a retired Saudi Arabian diplomat, military officer, and government official who served as Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005. He is a member of the House of Saud. Fro ...

and Princess Haifa bint Faisal. He attended

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before going up to Pembroke College,

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, where he graduated in Oriental studies. He also attended

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, graduating as a commissioned officer, before becoming a post-graduate at

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Career

Khalid bin Bandar started his career working at the

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' department of political affairs in New York. 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. 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. In June 2017, he became the Saudi ambassador to Germany. In 2019, he was made the Saudi ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Personal life

Khalid dated and lived with

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, the future Vanessa Trump, from 1998 to 2001. They intended to marry, but broke up after

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when he left the U.S. after his father was suspected of having indirect ties to the hijackers. In Oxford in March 2011, Khalid married Lucy Caroline Cuthbert (born 1982), daughter of John Aidan Cuthbert, of

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, Hexham,

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, and Lady Victoria Lucy Diana (daughter of

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), and thus, niece of

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, at a ceremony attended by a handful of guests.

References

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Khalid Khalid (variants include Khaled and Kalid; Arabic: خالد) is a popular Arabic male given name meaning "eternal, everlasting, immortal", and it also appears as a surname.

21st-century diplomats 1977 births

Khalid Khalid (variants include Khaled and Kalid; Arabic: خالد) is a popular Arabic male given name meaning "eternal, everlasting, immortal", and it also appears as a surname.

Living people

Khalid Khalid (variants include Khaled and Kalid; Arabic: خالد) is a popular Arabic male given name meaning "eternal, everlasting, immortal", and it also appears as a surname.