Misha’ El Bint Fahd Bin Mohammad Al Saud who was executed by gunshots in Jeddah 1977. Her fault was that she loved a young boy and tried escaped from Saudi Arabia.

1. A Tragic Death Of A Princess
Misha’ El Bint Fahd Bin MohammadAl Saud who was executed
by gunshots in Jeddah 1977. Her fault was that she loved a
young boy and tried escaped from SaudiArabia.
Misha’ Al Binte Fahd : Born – 1958, Died – 15 July 1977, Aged – 19,
Family : House of Saud
Father : Fahd Bin Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Introduction : Princess Misha’ Al Binte Fahd Bin Mohammad Al Saud
was member of House of Saud. Who was executed by Gunshots. For so
called adultery in 1977 at age of 19. She was also grand daughter of
Prince Muhammad Bin Abdulaziz. Who was an older brother of King
Khalid.
Main Story : A independent film producer Anthony Thomas came to
Saudi Arabia after the death of Saudi Princess Misha’Al Binte Fahd. He
have heard a tragic love story of a Saudi Princess and a ordinary Saudi
boy who had no connection with Saudi Royal family.
Investigation : Mr. Anthony Thomas came to Mid east in 1978 may
be. After his arrival, he had talked with so many people about the tragic
love story of a Saudi Princess. But in Saudi Arabia nobody wanted to
talk about this, because of fear. Some of people in Saudi Arabia said
that she went to study in Lebanon, and their she learnt a Saudi man.
The have fallen in love with each other. But this information could not
verified. Independent journalist and film maker Mr. Anthony Thomas
also went to Paris and London . He visited some persons there, who has

2. some little information about the love story of Princess Misha’al Binte
Fahd. After a yearlong investigation Mr. Anthony Thomas has
somehow managed to find the true from a elderly women who lived in
Lebanon. She fled the Saudi Arabia because of Royal regime.
Love Story : Princess Misha’Al Binte Fahd was age of 19 I 1977 when
she at first has fallen love with a young Saudi Musician. She saw this
boy at first in television. May be in June 1977 he was playing a guitar
for a television program. When this program was on aired, Late Saudi
Royal Princess Misha’Al binte saw the young boy and wanted to contact
with him as soon as possible. His name is Khaled Al – Sha’er. He was 21
years old.
So after princess saw him she sent her a female assistant to hem. Late
Princess Misha’al Binte Fahd sent a massage to this musician boy
through her female assistant to come a boutique house and collect his
massage. The young musician Late Khaled Al Sha’er came to this
boutique house for collecting his massage sent by Royal Saudi princess.
But that young boy Khaled Al sha’er didn’t know that very soon his life
is going to change. He went to a room in that boutique house and he
found that Princess Misha’ Al Binte Fahd herself was waiting for him
their. She was waiting for him because she wanted to meet the young
boy, with whom she fall in love . So she came herself to meet Khaled.
The was so afraid of this new developing situation in his life, when he
knew that the beautiful girl is a Saudi Princess. Here begins the love
story of a Saudi Princess and a young musician. This love story lasted
only three weeks. And ended with tragic death of two fresh lives.
Only Three Weeks : From start to finish this love story lasted for
three weeks. She plant to escape with her love from Saudi Arabia to

3. Europe. There is a popular beach near her city where she lived. This can
be 20 miles from there. Somehow Princess Misha’Al Binte Fahd
persuaded her mother to visited the beach at midnight. The boy also
was waiting for near the beach. After she had tried to fake her drawing.
She left her cloth near the beach and escaped with boy. They have
hired a room near the cost. It was beach hotel and 5 miles from the
incident happened . British journalist Mr. Thomas also visited the hotel
and had a talked with a older man there. He admitted that he saw the
Princess Misha’Al Binte Fahd and a young Saudi boy. They were very
happy and they came often in balcony. He saw them they were so
happy to find each other. Mr. Thomas asked the old man that how you
know that she was Princess. The old men from the beach hotel said that
he saw the photo of Princess in newspaper after her execution. And He
recognized her . Four days the family of young Princess could not trace
her. But she left a letter to her female assistant that should deliver this
letter to her mother after one week. So her will not worry about her
and will know what she is doing. But the female assistant of Princess
Misha’ Al Binte Fahd made a mistake. She handed over the letter little
early and in same day when they were leaving Saudi Arabia by plane. In
Jeddah airport she was disguised as a man. She was recognized by a
passport examiner at Jeddah airport. She was returned to her family.
Execution : On 15 July 1977, both were publicly executed in Jeddah by
the side of the Queen's Building in the park. Despite her royal status,
she was blindfolded, made to kneel, and executed on the explicit
instructions of her grandfather, a senior member of the royal family, for
the alleged dishonor she brought on her clan and defying a royal order
calling for her to marry a man selected by the family. Khaled, after
being forced to watch her execution, was beheaded with a sword by, it

4. is believed, one of the princess's male relatives. It took five blows to
sever his head, which was not the work of a professional executioner.
Both executions were conducted near the palace in Jeddah, not in the
public execution square in Jeddah.
Diplomatic War : “Death Of A Princess” movie was scheduled to
show on 9 April 1980 on the ITV television network and then a month
later on the public television network PBS in the United States. Both
broadcasts caused livid protests and strong diplomatic, economic and
political pressure from the Saudis. Failing to get the British broadcast
cancelled, King Khalid expelled the British ambassador from Saudi
Arabia.
In May 1980, attention then shifted to PBS, where PBS officials endured
a month of mounting pressure from corporations and politicians. A
major PBS sponsor, the Mobil Oil Corporation, took out a full-page ad in
The New York Times op-ed page opposing the film and declaring it
jeopardized U.S.-Saudi relations. After some stalling, it was eventually
broadcast by the PBS programmer World in most of the US on 12 May
1980, although some PBS stations did not do so. For example, in South
Carolina, the PBS affiliate cancelled broadcast of the film, a decision
influenced by fact that the then US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, John C.
West, had formerly been the state's Governor. The docudrama was
aired in the United States as part of a weekly PBS program called
"World". That program later became known as PBS "Frontline". "Death
Of A Princess" aired again on "Frontline" in 2005, to commemorate the
25th anniversary of the original broadcast.

5. King Khalid, Saudi Arabia's ruler at the time, was said to have offered
$11 million to the network to suppress the film.
According to Antony Thomas, there was no trial nor was there an
official execution:[2]
It wasn't a trial. She wasn't even executed in the Square of Justice. She
was just executed in a car park. I've witnessed executions in Saudi
Arabia, I'm afraid. They're always done in a special square. This wasn't
even done there. It wasn't done with an official executioner, not that
would make it any worse or any better. But this was not following the
process of any law.
David Fanning, co-writer and executive producer of Death of a Princess,
added:
The difference between the official version, which was the girl was
killed because she was found guilty of adultery, and the truth of it,
which turns out that she was, in fact, executed by the king's elder
brother in an act of tribal vengeance in a parking lot in Jeddah, was, in
fact, the heart of the controversy because that was the part that, of
course, the royal family could not countenance. And that was the great
outrage.
Thomas Interview: In a retrospective interview for the Frontline
rebroadcast, Thomas described his reasons for making the film:

6. I set off to investigate this story with the idea of doing it as a
drama, and gradually I realized that something completely
different was developing. Where I traveled through the Arab
world, the story was celebrated. Everyone had their own version
of that story, all very, very different. ... Whoever I spoke to—
whether they were Palestinians, whether they were conservative
Saudis, whether they were radicals—they attached themselves to
this princess. She'd become a myth. And they identified with her,
and they kind of co-opted her to their cause. People were
discussing things with me about their private lives, about their
sexual feelings, about their political frustrations, that they'd never
discussed with me before. ...Somehow this princess was sort of
like a catalyst. And after thinking about it seriously, I thought, my
gosh, this is perhaps an even more interesting story to tell