Portrait of Sayyid Majid, Sultan of Zanzibar, by Hurrichund Chintamon, 1860s. These plans never came to fruition and eventually Emily was reconciled with her family, returning to Zanzibar for visits in 18. To alleviate these problems she published a book Memoirs of an Arabian Princess which is believed to be the first known autobiography of an Arab woman and covers her life in Zanzibar from 1850 to 1865.Īfter the death of her husband, Emily found her herself caught up in the colonial plans of Otto von Bismarck, who wanted to seize Zanzibar for Germany and allegedly intended to place Emily’s son Rudolph in charge there as Sultan. She faced financial difficulites as she had been cut off from her own inheritance by her brother and was not permitted to inherit her husband’s estates. Tragedy struck in 1870 when Rudolph was killed in an accident leaving Emily a widow with three young children.
Just prior to their marriage in May 1867 she took on the name Emily and for the rest of her life was known as Emily Ruete. Once in Aden, Salme converted to Christianity and remained there until Rudolph could join her. Shortly after her pregnancy became apparent, her brother Majid proposed she take a trip to Mecca, which Salme believed was an attempt to have her killed and so she fled to Aden with the help of Captain Pasley of HMS Highflyer. She fell in love with Ruete and became pregnant by him. Following her brother Majid’s victory and her brother Barghash’s exile to Bombay she moved to Stone Town in the mid-1860s where she became acquainted with her neighbour, a German merchant named Rudolph Heinrich Ruete. Following the death of her father in 1856 and her mother in 1859, she became involved in the struggles between her brothers Majid and Barghash for the Sultanship of Zanzibar. Salme was born in Zanzibar in 1844 and had spent her early youth living in her father’s palaces outside Stone Town. Sayyida Salme bin Said, from Memoirs of an Arabian Princess The Princess had fled Zanzibar in fear of her life and had obtained passage to Aden on the British vessel HMS Highflyer. (Mar.In a letter of 2 January 1867 William Lockyer Merewether, Political Resident in Aden, recounted to his friend Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, a recent incident involving Sayyida Salme bin Said, sister of Sayyid Majid bin Said Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar. Dodd's delightful story should gain glowing reviews from her growing horde of fans. Evangeline soon learns that she's destined to fulfill a prophesy and marry the prince, whether she wants to or not. When she tries to explain who she really is, nobody will believe her, including the gorgeous prince.
Evangeline goes along with the prince's declaration and finds herself in the middle of a war, and in mortal peril. When a handsome man claiming to be Prince Danior sees her, he insists she is the runaway princess of Serephinia-his betrothed. Everyone is awed by her aloofness and poise, convinced that she must be of royal lineage. She travels abroad and masquerades as a ""lady of mystery"" at a Spanish resort. When English orphan Evangeline Scoffield comes into an unexpected inheritance, she decides to spend the money on an adventure. Dodd (A Well Favored Gentleman) transports readers into another enticing place and time, in this Regency with an inventive plot and sparkling characters.
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