Janan Harb
Former wife of King Fahd
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Biography
Janan Harb was born in Ramallah, Palestine, in 1947 to a Christian Arab family.[3] She met Prince Fahd at a party in Jeddah in December 1967.[3] They married in a secret ceremony in Jeddah in March 1968, and she had converted to Islam just before the marriage.[3][4] They lived in Jeddah and London during their marriage.[3] 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.[3][5]
She says that she was forced by senior royals including then Prince Salman and Prince Turki, full brothers of Prince Fahd, to leave Saudi Arabia in 1970.[4] They thought that she was responsible for the addiction of Prince Fahd to methadone which he had begun to use following chronic stomach pains in 1969.[3] She rejects any role in the addiction of her ex-husband.[3] Harb left Saudi Arabia and first went to Beirut and to the US.[3] In 1974 she married a Lebanese lawyer with whom she has two daughters.[6]
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.[2] In 2016 she lost the case.[6]
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