An Arab ambassador called off his wedding after discovering his wife-to-be, who had worn a face-covering veil whenever they met, was bearded and cross-eyed, the Gulf News reported.
The envoy had only met the woman a few times, during which she was kept under wraps behind a niqab, or face-covering veil, the paper said.
After the marriage contract was signed, the ambassador attempted to kiss his bride-to-be, upon which he discovered she had facial hair and was cross-eyed, it said.
The ambassador told an Islamic Sharia court in the United Arab Emirates that he was tricked into the marriage as the woman’s mother had shown his own mother pictures of her sister instead of her, the report said.
He sued for the contract to be annulled and also demanded the woman pay him 500,000 dirhams (US$136,000, NT$4.37 million) for clothes, jewelry and other gifts he had bought for her.
The court annulled the contract but rejected the ambassador’s demand for compensation.
The report did not identify the ambassador nor give any further details.(AFP)
海灣新聞報報導,一名阿拉伯大使發現每次和他見面都蒙著面紗的準新娘原來有鬍子又斜視後,取消了婚禮。
報導指出,這名大使只見過他的準新娘幾次面,但她總是戴著面紗蒙住臉龐。
報導說,簽完結婚證書後,這名大使試圖親吻準新娘,就在這個時候,他發現她臉上長了鬍子,眼睛還斜視。
這位大使在阿拉伯聯合大公國的伊斯蘭教法庭上表示,他是被拐成親的,女方母親之前拿給他母親看的是她姊妹的照片,而非準新娘的照片。
他請求法院宣告這份契約無效,並要求女方償付他五十萬迪拉姆(十三萬六千美元、新台幣四百三十七萬元)的治裝、珠寶和其他贈禮費用。
法院宣告該契約無效,但駁回他的賠償要求。
該報導並未透露這名大使的身份及進一步細節。
(法新社╱翻譯:袁星塵)
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