Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud

In June 2017 he became the Saudi ambassador to Germany. In 2019 he was made the Saudi Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

In Oxford in March 2011, Khalid married Lucy Caroline Cuthbert (b. 1982), daughter of John Aidan Cuthbert, of Beaufront Castle, Hexham, Northumberland, and Lady Victoria Lucy Diana (daughter of Hugh Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland), and thus niece of Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland, at a ceremony attended by a handful of guests.

Khalid bin Bandar started his career working at the United Nations' department of political affairs in New York. He worked for three years as an advisor to the Saudi Ambassador in Washington DC. He is an executive chairman of Dayım Holding 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.

Khalid dated and lived with Vanessa Trump from 1998 to 2001. They intended to marry, but broke up after September 11 attacks when he left the U.S. after his father was suspected of having indirect ties to the hijackers.

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