The Princess and the Villain

Based on a true story, The Princess and the Villain tells of how one of Britain's most wanted men, came to become personal bodyguard to Princess Jarmina, a Middle-Eastern princess and one of the wealthiest and most heavily protected women of the world. It also tells how these two opposites came to have a passionate affair (behind closed doors and without the knowledge of the other members of the royal family) and plotted to run away to start a new life together in New York. A remarkable novel giving powerful insights into London's exciting and dangerous crime world of the sixties and seventies, and the extraordinary private world of the super-rich Arab royals. Filled with humorous incidents, it brilliantly describes what happened when two people from such opposite backgrounds came together and attempted to escape from their pasts.