Personal Life
Khalid firstly married to King Fahd's daughter, Lulua. They divorced in 1978. They have three children. Their first child, Reema died when she was four months old. His other children from his first marriage are Faisal (born 1973) and Sara (born 1976). Later, he married to another full uncle's daughter, Abeer bint Turki bin Abdulaziz. They have five children: Hala, Fahd, Salman, Mishail and Abdullah.
One of his daughters married to King Abdullah's son, Turki bin Abdullah who is a pilot in the Royal Saudi Air Force on 13 January 2010.
He published a chatty and insightful memoir about his life, entitled Desert Warrior, that revealed many secrets about the first Gulf War—such as the fact that Israel alerted its nuclear-armed missile forces after Iraq started firing Scuds at Tel Aviv both to warn the Iraqis not to use chemical warheads and to press Washington to do more to hunt Scuds in western Iraq.
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