![]() ![]() ![]() Princess depicts how even royal women are beaten, executed, and enslaved by their fathers, husbands, and brothers. ![]() Even though she is a member of the royal family, Sultana is bound by a strict society that she says defines women as nothing more than vessels for sexual relief and breeders of children for the men. The book supposedly tells of the life of Sultana (not her real name), a granddaughter of the al-Saud warlord who brought most of the Arabian peninsula under his family's control at the dawn of the 20th century. Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi ArabiaĪvon Books in the U.S., Bantam in the U.K. But is it indeed a "true story" or is it fiction/hoax? Summary This book claims to tell the "true story" of a princess in Saudi Arabia, filled with many anecdotes of misogynistic treatment she and other women in her family endured at the hands of men. A Review of Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean P. ![]()
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