Rita Nasir returns to UK after spending time in harem

Jun. 06, 1958 - She was a prisoner in a King's Harem.: Twenty-five year old Glasgow-born Mrs. Rita Nasir, arrived at Tilbury yesterday ans told of her life of luxury as a prisoner in the walled harem of the King of the Yemen. For four months, Mrs. Nasir, wife of a Yemen electrician, Ahmed Nasir, was under guard with the king's 200 concubines in the Royal palace ay Yemen. Five months ago, during a visit ti London, Crown Prince Al Badr of the Yemen met Rita's husband and their five children and invited the, home'.Rita agreed to live in her husband homeland. She said Two weeks after we arrived in the palace guest house at Tais two guards came for me in the King's shooting brake. I had no choice. It was the King's command that I move into the palace with the children. Her husband, Ahmed and his 15-year old son Norman, by his previous marriage had to remain on in the guest house.sa d Rita: Really the King was kind to me because I lived in the greatest luxury I have ever known'. The King sent for me three or four times. We just sat and talked. She got tired of the easy life in the harem, and planned her escape with her husband. Ahmed bribed an Arab with a jeep and we fled huddle in the back of the jeep and got to Aden, where British authorities advanced the fare for her, and her children. Ahmed paid his own passage. Photo shows Mrs. Rita Nasir pictured yesterday with her nine-month old baby Gamila in her arms. Six-year old Yasmin holds her hand. Ria, aged 7 follows; then Norman, son of Mr. Nasir's first marriage, with two-year-old Halina in his arms; then Anita, aged 3

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