Pulling Back That Headpiece Thing

The secrecy that enshrouds the Saudi monarchy, no doubt a place of nefarious corruptness and hypocritical debauchery, is about to be broken. In England, yet, with its sensational tabloid journalism. This will be good ...

From the WashTimes:

A woman seeking a divorce from Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and a $50 billion settlement has won a significant legal victory in British courts that for the first time forces the secretive 18-month court battle into public view.

The contest between the king and a woman who says she is one of his wives, Janan Harb, had been conducted in secrecy, and the case was given a fictitious name to protect the king's identity and a strict gag order imposed to keep it out of the press.

King Fahd's attorneys convinced a lower court that Mrs. Harb cannot pursue her claim because the king, who is 82 and in poor health, is entitled to "sovereign immunity," which protects heads of state from being sued in the courts of another country.

This month, however, three appeals court judges granted her permission to appeal the lower court ruling and ordered that the appeal be held in open court.

So the stage is set for a public airing of the affairs of the secretive Saudi royal family, which King Fahd leads.