SAudi princess tried to skip out on a scottish hotel owing $5mil. How the heck do you run up a bill that high without someone noticing?

http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/princess-tried-to-evade-5m-hotel-charge-1-2336923


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Published on Monday 4 June 2012 02:02 A SAUDI princess has been caught trying to sneak out of a luxury Paris hotel with her entourage of 60 staff because she couldn’t pay her £5 million bill. Maha Al-Sudairi attempted the 3:30am escape from the five-star Shangri-La hotel after being “cut off” by Saudi King Abdullah for overspending. But hotel staff called police, who prevented her loading scores of suitcases into a fleet of limousines in the street outside early last Friday morning. Princess Sudairi was confined to a palace in the Middle Eastern state by the king last year after leaving behind a trail of unpaid bills across Europe in 2009. But the wayward wife of Saudi Crown Prince and deputy prime minister Nayef ben Abdel Aziz skipped to France last December. She checked into an entire 41-room floor of the Shangri-La Hotel on 23 December. Since then she has dodged demands from the hotel to settle her ballooning bill, French daily Le Parisien reported. She had also run up huge bills at luxury boutiques, the paper said. Police said they would be asking the Saudi embassy in Paris to help settle her accounts, but were unable to arrest her as she has diplomatic immunity.

SOB

Paris Scotland, or Paris France?

When I was in Scotland a few years ago, the hotels were nowhere near as expensive as that.....

This is the sort of thing that happens when you make friends with evil dictators.

freediver wrote on Jun 4^th, 2012 at 7:29pm:

Paris Scotland, or Paris France?

Paris, South-eastern Scotland...

freediver wrote on Jun 4^th, 2012 at 7:29pm:

Paris Scotland, or Paris France?

Well I thought I saw it said Scotland somewhere but cant find anything now. Of course that was your only comment though.

We are just lucky our royals dont do this huh? Or maybe they do but we just pay the bills.

SOB

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jun 5^th, 2012 at 6:26am:

freediver wrote on Jun 4th, 2012 at 7:29pm: Paris Scotland, or Paris France? Well I thought I saw it said Scotland somewhere but cant find anything now. Of course that was your only comment though. We are just lucky our royals dont do this huh? Or maybe they do but we just pay the bills. SOB

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Queen to Get a $2m Aussie Party TAXPAYERS will spend nearly $2 million to entertain the Queen, world leaders and delegates attending the opening ceremony of the CHOGM talks later this month. Government tender documents confirm Australians have already been handed a bill for $21 million to stage the talks, a cost expected to nearly triple to $58 million. http://royalsvisitaustralia.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/queen-to-get-2m-aussie-party.html

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...Taxpayers, who have spent over a million dollars to provide flights, security and luxury accommodation for the Queen and her courtiers during her previous visits, would pick up the tab. The Queen's 1992 visit, when then Prime Minister Paul Keating sparked an international headlines as "The Lizard of Oz" for placing his arm around Her Majesty, cost Australians $1,292,684. The Queen's 21-day visit to Australia for the Bicentenary celebrations in 1988 cost $1,341,597... http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/australia-trip-for-queen-but-forget-will/story-fn6bmg6l-1225996685434

Wrong royals falah. These are the saudi royals that are playing up in scotland.

SOB

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jun 5^th, 2012 at 10:05am:

Wrong royals falah. These are the saudi royals that are playing up in scotland. [France]

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jun 5^th, 2012 at 6:26am:

We are just lucky our royals dont do this huh? Or maybe they do but we just pay the bills.

Wouldn't this be normal practice for a visiting head of state regardless of who they were?

Frances wrote on Jun 5^th, 2012 at 10:39am:

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jun 5th, 2012 at 6:26am: We are just lucky our royals dont do this huh? Or maybe they do but we just pay the bills. Wouldn't this be normal practice for a visiting head of state regardless of who they were?

yeah but $5mil in hotel bills? Even thomson didnt do that.

SOB

Looks to me as if it was a private visit rather than an official one.  And I don't think that she could be considered a head of state.

We, at least are more prudent; a couple of years ago it was suggested that Prince Charles come for a visit. The reaction was Charlie was welcome but dont bring Camilla because we're having a drought and we cant afford the oats...