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In a hideous suite at the Sheraton Hotel in Taif, Saudi Arabia, in 1980, I was woken at two in the morning by King Khalid’s personal aide, with grave news: the King had heard on the BBC that the ITV film Death of a Princess had been rebroadcast, and the King was angry.
I was there...
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