AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - British grandmother married Osama bin Laden's son after a two-week courtship — and their saga still isn't over
A five-times-divorced British grandmother proposed to Osama bin Laden's fourth son two weeks after meeting him on horseback in Egypt, launching a two-decade odyssey of denied visas, exile, and controversy that continues today. Jane Felix-Browne was 51 years old, a parish councillor in the small English village of Moulton in Cheshire, population roughly 2,400, when […] The post British grandmother married Osama bin Laden's son after a two-week courtship — and their saga still isn't over appeared first on American Almanac .
A five-times-divorced British grandmother proposed to Osama bin Laden's fourth son two weeks after meeting him on horseback in Egypt, launching a two-decade odyssey of denied visas, exile, and controversy that continues today. Jane Felix-Browne was 51 years old, a parish councillor in the small English village of Moulton in Cheshire, population roughly 2,400, when she traveled to Giza, Egypt, for a horse-riding trip about twenty years ago. Omar Bin Laden was 26, a scrap metal dealer and the son of the most wanted man on the planet. Three days after they met in the saddle, Omar told her who his father was. Two weeks later, she proposed. By September 2006 they were married, and by the following spring they had formalized the union with…Open