Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arab

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Sultana is a Saudi Arabian princess, a woman born to fabulous, uncountable wealth. She has four mansions on three continents, her own private jet, glittering jewels, designer dresses galore. But actually she lives in a gilded cage. She has no freedom, no keep an eye on over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. Hidden in the back of her black floor-length veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, her sons, and her country.Sultana is a member of the Saudi royal circle of relatives, closely related to the king. For the sake of her daughters, she has determined to take the risk of speaking out about the life of women in her country, without reference to their rank. She should hide her identity for fear that the religous leaders in her country would call for her death to punish her honesty. Only a woman in her position may be able to hope to escape from being revealed and punished, despite her cloak and anonymity.Sultana tells of her own life, from her turbulent childhood to her arranged marriage–a happy one until her husband determined to displace her by taking a second wife–and of the lives of her sisters, her friends and her servants. Even supposing they share affection, confidences and an easy camaraderie within the confines of the women’s quarters, they also share a history of appaling oppressions, on a regular basis occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations; thirteen-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age, young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the women’s room, a padded, windowless cell where women are confined with neither light nor conversation until death claims them.By speaking out, Sultana risks bringing the wrath of the Saudi establishment upon her head and te heads of her children. But by telling her story to Jean Sasson, Sultana has allowed us to see beyond the veils of this secret society, to the heart of a nation where sex, money, and power reign supreme.

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