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Malaysiakini: Why did you marry him (Kelantan prince Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra)?
Manohara: Well, the whole marriage process was complicated. It was not what you would call a “usual marriage”. Initially, I met him as a normal friend. We met at a dinner party, he did not even introduce himself to me.
(Later) it was just a kind of thing where you drop by ... and we go to have dinner, not just us but together with our friends.
One day in August 2008, he called us up and said: “Why don't you guys come down to KL, I'll introduce you to my parents.” So I was like, “Sure why not? I can go visit Kelantan as well, it would be a nice experience”.
So when we arrived - we were there for a couple of days - I met his parents and they said the mufti said on the 26th, the prince and I had to get married, and I laughed because I thought that it was a joke.
So we went to Kelantan just to look around, suddenly I was asked by Raja Perempuan (Muhammad Fakhry's mother) whether I was ready for the marriage on 26th. I told her I cannot do that - I did not agree to the marriage, my father did not agree, and I did not think my mother would agree to it.
“I have a family in Indonesia, and you have to do this properly. I am not going to marry the prince just like that.” And then the Raja said: “Look, we have already sent out all the invitations, we have already set up a venue, if you do not do this, it will be a huge embarrassment for the whole royal family.”
Frankly speaking - and this may sound a bit rude - I did not care what they had done to prepare for the wedding ceremony. So I still rejected the marriage.
Then on the wedding day - it was four o'clock in the morning - they told me that they were going to get beheaded if I did not agree to the marriage. And they said that I could go back to Jakarta and they could do this in a proper way and I could take as much time I wanted to get used to this marriage.
Then the wedding ceremony went on and I (hoped to go) back to Jakarta.
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Manohara: Well, the whole marriage process was complicated. It was not what you would call a “usual marriage”. Initially, I met him as a normal friend. We met at a dinner party, he did not even introduce himself to me.
(Later) it was just a kind of thing where you drop by ... and we go to have dinner, not just us but together with our friends.
One day in August 2008, he called us up and said: “Why don't you guys come down to KL, I'll introduce you to my parents.” So I was like, “Sure why not? I can go visit Kelantan as well, it would be a nice experience”.
So when we arrived - we were there for a couple of days - I met his parents and they said the mufti said on the 26th, the prince and I had to get married, and I laughed because I thought that it was a joke.
So we went to Kelantan just to look around, suddenly I was asked by Raja Perempuan (Muhammad Fakhry's mother) whether I was ready for the marriage on 26th. I told her I cannot do that - I did not agree to the marriage, my father did not agree, and I did not think my mother would agree to it.
“I have a family in Indonesia, and you have to do this properly. I am not going to marry the prince just like that.” And then the Raja said: “Look, we have already sent out all the invitations, we have already set up a venue, if you do not do this, it will be a huge embarrassment for the whole royal family.”
Frankly speaking - and this may sound a bit rude - I did not care what they had done to prepare for the wedding ceremony. So I still rejected the marriage.
Then on the wedding day - it was four o'clock in the morning - they told me that they were going to get beheaded if I did not agree to the marriage. And they said that I could go back to Jakarta and they could do this in a proper way and I could take as much time I wanted to get used to this marriage.
Then the wedding ceremony went on and I (hoped to go) back to Jakarta.
(Source: Mkini - Support Mkini - Subscribe to Mkini!)
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