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Meriam Al Khalifa
Meriam bint Abdullah Al-Khalifa (born 1980) is a member of the Bahraini Royal House of Al-Khalifa. She is best known for fleeing her family and native Bahrain to the United States to elope with US Marine Lance Corporal Jason Johnson, who was, at the time, stationed in Bahrain as part of a counter-terrorism unit providing security for expatriate Americans. After she was smuggled into the United States with help from Lance Corporal Johnson and being threatened with deportation by United States Customs, she was permitted to stay and apply for asylum, claiming that she feared honor violence by her family in retaliation for fleeing her country and entertaining a romantic relationship with an American. Her story was featured heavily in the American press, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, and was turned into a television movie.
==Background==
Al Khalifa is one of five daughters of ''Shaikh Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa'' a distant cousin of Bahrain's current king, properly titled as "''Emir''" ''Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa''. Meriam is properly titled as "''Shaikha''."
In January 1999, she met Lance Corporal Jason Johnson, a United States Marine and a Mormon, at an "Americanized" shopping mall in Bahrain.〔(Princess and ex-marine to divorce ), 1 December 2004, BBC News〕 They exchanged whispered phone calls and clandestine meetings until being spotted by a member of the Bahrain Royal Guard, who informed her mother of the illicit relationship. After being forced to end the relationship and forbidden to see Johnson, they continued their relationship by secretly exchanging letters through a jewelry store employee at the mall for eleven months, until Johnson's tour of duty was scheduled to end.
She and Johnson flew to the United States in November 1999 with Al Khalifa disguised as a female U.S. Marine and using fake military transfer documents, forged by Lance Corporal Johnson himself, and were married in a Las Vegas chapel on November 16, 1999, after which she settled into life as a military housewife, living in base housing at Camp Pendelton.〔(Princess-Marine marriage irrevocably over after 5 years ), Dec. 1, 2004, Deseret News〕
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