Janan George Harb ( ar, جنان حرب; born 1947) is a former wife of

King Fahd Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( ar, فهد بن عبد العزيز آل سعود ''Fahd ibn ʿAbd al ʿAzīz Āl Suʿūd'', ; 1920, 1921 or 1923 – 1 August 2005) was a Saudi Arabian politician who was King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia fro ...

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Biography

Janan Harb was born in Ramallah,

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, in 1947 to a Christian Arab family. She met Prince Fahd at a party in

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in December 1967. They married in a secret ceremony in Jeddah in March 1968, and she had been converted into Islam just before the marriage. They lived in Jeddah and

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during their marriage. She introduced some of her friends to Prince Fahd who was the interior minister during that period to enable them to get jobs or visas. She says that she was forced by senior royals including

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and Prince Turki, full brothers of Prince Fahd, to leave Saudi Arabia in 1970. They thought that she was responsible for the addiction of Prince Fahd to

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which he had begun to use following chronic stomach pains in 1969. She rejects any role in the addiction of her ex-husband. Harb left Saudi Arabia and first went to

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and to the US. In 1974 she married a Lebanese lawyer with whom she has two daughters. To the embarrassment to the Saudi royal family she launched a £400m maintenance claim against King Fahd in 2004, a year before Fahd's death. In 2016 she lost the case.

Book

Janan Harb published a book entitled ''The Saudi King and I'' in which her relationship with King Fahd is detailed. The story has been sold for making a film which is provisionally titled ''The Sins of King Fahd'', and a three-minute teaser of the film was posted to

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References

1947 births Living people Palestinian women People from Ramallah Janan {{MEast-royal-stub