page_title: Sudairi Seven
hierarchical_section_title: Sudairi Seven
caption_attribution_description: العربية: الملك سلمان والملك فهد في معرض دارة الملك عبد العزيز في مهرجان الجنادرية.
context_page_description: The Sudairi Seven, also spelled Sudairy or Sudayri, is the commonly used name for a powerful alliance of seven full brothers within the House of Saud. Their father King Abdulaziz 'Ibn Saud' had more sons with their mother Hussa Sudairi than he did with any of his other wives. They are also sometimes referred to as the Sudairi Clan or the Sudairi faction.
  The oldest served as king from 1982 to 2005; the second- and fourth-oldest served as crown prince but predeceased King Abdullah; and the sixth-oldest succeeded Abdullah as king in 2015. Turki had broken off with his brothers in 1978. Following the death of Prince Abdul Rahman in 2017 only the two youngest of the Seven survive.
context_section_description: The Sudairi Seven (Arabic: السديريون السبعة‎, as-Sudayriyyūn as-Sabʿah), also spelled Sudairy or Sudayri, is the commonly used name for a powerful alliance of seven full brothers within the House of Saud. Their father King Abdulaziz 'Ibn Saud' had more sons with their mother Hussa Sudairi than he did with any of his other wives. They are also sometimes referred to as the Sudairi Clan (Arabic: عائلة السديري‎ ʿĀʾilat as-Sudayrī) or the Sudairi faction.
  The oldest (Fahd) served as king from 1982 to 2005; the second- and fourth-oldest (Sultan and Naif) served as crown prince but predeceased King Abdullah; and the sixth-oldest (Salman) succeeded Abdullah as king in 2015. Turki had broken off with his brothers in 1978. Following the death of Prince Abdul Rahman in 2017 only the two youngest of the Seven (Salman and Ahmed) survive.
caption: Fahd and Salman, the two members of the Sudairi Seven who became kings
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