Wadha_bint_Muhammad_Al_Orair

Wadha bint Muhammad Al Orair

Wadha bint Muhammad Al Orair

King Abdulaziz's second wife (died 1969)

Wadha bint Muhammad Al Orair (Arabic: وضحى بنت محمد آل عريعر; died 4 May 1969) was one of the spouses of Abdulaziz, the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She was from the Bani Khalid tribe[1][2] which ruled the Eastern Arabia for a long time[3][4] and was the most powerful tribe in this region during the late 18th century.[5]

In this Arabic name, the surname is Al Orair.
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Wahda married Abdulaziz in Kuwait in 1896, and they had five children:[6][7] Prince Turki, King Saud, Prince Khalid, Prince Abdullah and Princess Mounira.[1][8] Of them Prince Khalid and Prince Abdullah died young.[1]

Wadha's sister, Hussa, first married the Kuwaiti ruler Mubarak Al Sabah and then, following her divorce from Mubarak, she married Abdulaziz.[9] In her lifetime Wadha witnessed the death of her five children.[1] She died in Riyadh on 4 May 1969, shortly after the death of King Saud in Athens.[1]

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    Joseph A. Kéchichian (2001). Succession in Saudi Arabia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 26. ISBN 9780312238803.
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    "تحقيق سلسة نسب والدة الملك سعود (Lineage of King Saud's mother)" (in Arabic). King Saud Library. 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
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    Abdul Wahap Saleh Babeair (1985). Ottoman Penetration of the Eastern Region of the Arabian Peninsula, 1814-1841 (PhD thesis). Indiana University. p. 24. ProQuest 303386071.
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    Mohammed Ameen (1981). A study of Egyptian rule in eastern Arabia (1814–1841) (PhD thesis). McGill University. p. 4. ProQuest 89133255.
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    "Appendix A Chronology of the Life of Ibn Saud" (PDF). Springer. p. 197.
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    Mustafa Al Sadawi (24 May 2018). "نفحات من زوجات الملك عبد العزيز.. أمهات ملوك المملكة". Sayidaty (in Arabic). Retrieved 2 July 2021.
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    Madawi Al Rasheed (2010). A History of Saudi Arabia (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 75. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511993510. ISBN 978-0-5217-4754-7.
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    "King Saud's Maternal ancestry". Information Source. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
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