Background and early life
Tarfa bint Abdullah Al Sheikh was born in 1884. Her mother was Haya bint Abdul Rahman Al Muqbel. Her family were from a village near Riyadh.{{cite web|title=File 11/44 Leading Personalities in Iraq, Iran & Saudi Arabia|date=13 January 1948 ==Personal life and death==
Personal life and death
Tarfa bint Abdullah married Emir Abdulaziz in 1902 immediately after he captured Riyadh.{{cite book|author=Madawi Al Rasheed|title=A History of Saudi Arabia|location=Cambridge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BPCPg412BvkC&pg=PA78|year=2002|page=78 Abdulaziz and Tarfa's first child, Noura, was born in 1904. Their son, Faisal, was born in Riyadh in April 1906.{{cite book|editor=Bernard Reich|title=Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3D5FulN2WqQC&pg=PP15|isbn=978-0-313-26213-5|year=1990|publisher=Greenwood Press|page=180 ==Ancestry==