Once I Was A Princess: Jacqueline Gillespie

The author was once Lady Yasmin, seventeen year old wife of Prince Bahrin, firstborn son to the Sultan of Terengganu. She was brought to live in the royal palace compound in the oil-rich Malaysian state. Her only duty was to please her husband in all ways possible. A fairy tale romance to begin with, her life became a nightmare of Islamic superstition, isolation, rejection, betrayal and abuse. She escaped at the age of twenty two and the Prince exacted the ultimate revenge: the kidnapping of her children.