Fahda was born in 1953[1] to King Saud[2] and one of his wives Jamila bint Assad bin Ibrahim Al Mirhi from Latakia, Syria.

[4] She received her bachelor's degree in political science from Beirut College for Women (now the Lebanese American University) in 1974.

[4] Later, she moved to Paris to study art and was trained by late Iraqi artist Issam Al Said on Islamic geometric patterns.

[5] Princess Fahda also sits as the president of Al Faisaliyya Women's Welfare Society in Jeddah which she has chaired for over two decades, as well as head of Sleysla, a Cooperative Society, specialized in modernizing Saudi handy crafts and fashion in Jeddah using locally sourced raw materials with locally inspired traditional designs and employing local women to produce them.

[11] In February 2007, Fahda's article entitled "Saudi women's concerns" was published in Al Hayat.

There Princess Fahda clearly expressed that debate continuing about the rights of women in Saudi society has been "pivotal to the nation's renaissance.