Saudi prince loses immunity


Issue 972 - 21 Jun 2014 | 2 minute read

A British court has dismissed Prince Abdelaziz Bin Fahd Bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud’s claim that he is entitled to state immunity, in a case in which Janan George Harb – one of his father’s widows – is suing him for breach of contract. Harb says that, in March 1968, aged 19, she was married in secret to King Fahd Bin Abdelaziz (r. 1982-2005), who at the time was interior minister. The marriage lasted only two years, but she claims that Fahd promised to provide for her financially for the rest of her life, and that he gave her money only up until he suffered a stroke in 1995. In 2003, she planned to start proceedings against him in England, at which point, she alleges, Prince Abdelaziz agreed during a meeting at The Dorchester in London to honour his father’s promise by paying her a lump sum of £12m ($14.9m) and transferring to her the title of two properties on Cheyne Walk, in London’s upmarket borough of Kensington and Chelsea. In return, she was to withdraw damaging allegations about Fahd.

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