Akilah
Aristocracy
- Joined
- May 5, 2004
- Messages
- 203
I am sorry to say this, but Princess Haya and her husband are not very impressive as a couple. When I look at them in pictures I say to myself, "This could be you and your father." It appears to me in every picture, when CP Mohammed looks at her, his expression is that of nurturing affection between father and daughter. I know that there has already been comparsion of their relationship to that of father and daugher, but I have chosen to put any statements aside, and the question of age, and look at the couple in the photographs posted in this thread and others on the internet, and I have came up with my own conclusion. I am aware that I will never know (as in the case of many of you) the really ends and outs of their relationship, but I must question the nature of their relationship: What does a 55 year old man (aside from is faith/religion allowing him to have up to four wives) want with a woman (aside from the fact she is Oxford educated with three degrees under her belt with two honorary Masters from Oxford (note: I may be wrong on the two honorary Master degrees) who is shy of some three years of being the age of his oldest daughter. I know that the Arab world is different from that of the Western world in many ways. I can also accept the fact that love (if it relly exists) can transcend age/time and many other factors. Yet, there is something I find strange about those how approve or accept the relationship between the two constenting adults (maybe that is the answer for accepting her relationship, but is it a good enough answer...no...maybe...yes...alright... Is it my place to question?)--the idea that the love of horses is a common thread that may have brought them together and may continue to bond them. But is horses enough, I think not. Yet, Everyone is entitled to their own opinion in the matter (because why would I be typing this and you reading this but anyway). Although many of you may disagre with what I am about to say I will any way. I believe this marriage is of very little substance and that is O.K. beacuse Princess Haya made the chose to marry this man. However, she is not alone in making this decision beacause it takes two to sign a Nikah. I feel dishearten to know that a man of his age would have entertained such a notion to marry a women who could be mistaken for his daughter, and parading all over Europe, UAE, and the Middle East with her on his arm. Now wait. I know many of you will say you know very littlele about the Arab world because if you did you would know this or you would know that, but you see even I a woman of the western world knows that even in America or Western Europe if a man could get away with having two wives with one of them young enough to be her daughter he would in a heartbeat (the point if he he could get away with it). Yet, it is troubling to know a young women like P. Haya who has been educated, lived, and dated in the western world who expected being the other women as she has now become. You see while in Europe P. Haya would have never associated herself with a married man. Yet, I find it surprising that she would tramps around Ireland and Western Europe with CP Mohammed before it was announced they were married (if it were true they were married a year before sign the Nikah in Amman) ,so openly, as the other women. I think that is when I lost respect for a women I find to be articulate, intelligent, sound, beautiful, and phenomenal. Yet, in the end, I wish her luck in her new endeavor as wife to the Crown Prince of Dubaii. I only hope it is all she expects it to be and much more.