[Rummyfan]

Ah, progress. BBC used this photo in its story about the newfound travel rights Saudi women have gained. Here was BBC's caption: "The move now puts women on an equal footing to men with regard to travel rights." Looks very equal, doesn't it?

[Rummyfan]

Abdul-Rahman's mother was said to be Ibn Saud's favorite among his 22 wives - or, at any rate, one of the favorites. Top Five certainly. She also had the highest status, because she bore him more boys - seven - than any other other missus. They're known as the Sudairi Seven or, alternatively, the Magnificent Seven. She also gave him seven daughters. They're known as the seven blackout curtains standing over in the corner. This splendidly fertile lady's name was Hussa bint Ahmed, and she was Ibn Saud's cousin once removed and then, if I'm counting correctly, his eighth wife. But she's a bit like the Grover Cleveland of the House of Saud - in that he's counted as the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, and she's the eighth wife and also either the tenth or eleventh. He first married her when he was 38 and she was 13. But he divorced her and then remarried her. In between their marriages she was married to his brother, but Ibn Saud was a sentimental lad and never got over his child-bride-turned-sister-in-law, so he ordered his brother to divorce her.

I've always thought they were in-bred but this is a case of reality being stranger than fiction.

[Karma_Sherab]

Check out the ankles on the lead one!!!

[tbw2]

But is the she allowed to walk to the store or airport without a male escort?

[Graybeard58]

Check out the sexy white shoes on that chick!