Haya bint Saad Al Sudairi

In this Arabic name, the surname is Al Sudairi.
Haya bint Saad Al Sudairi
Born1913
Died18 April 2003 (aged 89–90)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Burial
Al Oud cemetery, Riyadh
Spouse
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(m. 1927; died 1953)​
Issue
List
Names
Haya bint Saad bin Abdul Muhsin Al Sudairi[1]
House
  • Al Sudairi (by birth)
  • Al Saud (by marriage)
FatherSaad bin Abdul Muhsin Al Sudairi

Haya bint Saad Al Sudairi (Arabic: هيا بنت سعد السديري Hayā bint Saʿad Āl Sudayrī; 1913 – 18 April 2003) was one of the spouses of King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia. She was a member of the powerful Sudairi family.[2][3] Her elder sister, Al Jawhara bint Saad,[1] married Abdulaziz and had three sons and a daughter with him.[4] Following the death of Al Jawhara in 1927, Haya married Abdulaziz.[1] Their marriage also produced three sons and two daughters: Princess Hessa, Princess Meshail, Prince Badr, Prince Abdul Majid and Prince Abdul Illah.[5][6]

On 7 February 1999 as part of the centennial celebrations of Riyadh's capture by Abdulaziz an interview with Haya bint Saad was published in Al Jazirah, a Saudi Arabian newspaper.[7] She argued "whatever has been and will be said about the King [Abdulaziz] cannot reflect the [whole] truth."[7]

Haya bint Saad died at age 90 in Riyadh on 18 April 2003.[8] She was buried in the Al Oud cemetery there.[8]

  1. ^ a b c Mustafa Al Sadawi (24 May 2018). "نفحات من زوجات الملك عبد العزيز.. أمهات ملوك المملكة". Sayidaty (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 30 May 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  2. ^ Sharaf Sabri (2001). The House of Saud in Commerce: A Study of Royal Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia. New Delhi: I.S. Publications. p. 21. ISBN 978-81-901254-0-6.
  3. ^ Hamid Hussain (August 2017). "Royal Rumble-Dynamics of Saudi Royal Family". Defence Journal. 21 (1).
  4. ^ Joseph A. Kechichian (2001). Succession in Saudi Arabia. New York: Palgrave. ISBN 9780312238803.
  5. ^ "Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman ibn Faisal Al Saud (Ibn Saud) (1880 - 1953)". Jewish Virtual Library. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  6. ^ Richard F. Nyrop, ed. (1984). Saudi Arabia. A Country Study. Washington, DC: The American University. p. 396. ISBN 978-0-16-001616-5.
  7. ^ a b Elie Podeh (2011). The Politics of National Celebrations in the Arab Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 279–280. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511734748. ISBN 978-1107684997.
  8. ^ a b "Princess Haya bint Saad Al Sudairi, 90, Wife of Modern Saudi Arabia Founder". Sun Sentinel. Riyadh. 7 May 2003. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2021.