Fawwaz bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Arabic: فواز بن عبد العزيز آل سعود, Fawwāz bin ʿAbdulʿazīz Āl Saʿūd; 1934 – 19 July 2008) was a senior member of the House of Saud.
[1][2] He was the son of King Abdulaziz and Bazza II (died 1940), a Moroccan woman.
[4][5] He defected to the United Arab Republic with his half-brothers Badr and Abdul Muhsin and their cousin Fahd bin Saad, but they returned to Saudi Arabia upon their rehabilitation by Crown Prince Faisal on 22 January 1964.
[15] Fawwaz bin Abdulaziz was one of the royal family members who were harshly criticised by Juhayman Al Otaybi and Abdullah Al Qahtani, leaders of the group that seized the Grand Mosque of Mecca in 1979, for his unabashed drinking, gambling, and corruption.
[2] Condolence messages were sent to King Abdullah, the Saudi government and the Saudi royal family from King Hamad of Bahrain;[18] the emir of Kuwait, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah;[19] and the emir and crown prince of Qatar.