| Succession: | Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United Kingdom |
| Reign: | 27 March 2019 – present |
| Reign-Type: | In office |
| Regent: | Salman |
| Reg-Type: | Monarch |
| 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 Place: | Paris, France |
Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud (Arabic: 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[1] and a member of the House of Saud.
| Royal Name: | Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud |
| Dipstyle: | His Royal Highness |
| Offstyle: | 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, before becoming a post-graduate at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.[5] [6]
Khalid bin Bandar started his career working at the United Nations' department of political affairs in New York.[7] 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.[5] [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),[5] 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]