The other day, I am drinking absinthe and watching HBO’s “Chernobyl”. The lead character reminds me of Albus Dumbledore. A quick google and yes it is Richard Harris’ 57-year-old son Jared. His mum is Joan Rees-William. Richard Harris married her in 1957, with whom she had three sons (Damian Harris, Jared Harris, and Jamie Harris). They divorced in 1969. Sir Rex Harrison was her second husband from 1971 to 1975. Rees-Williams wed Peter Aitken in 1980 and divorced in 1985. He is the cousin of her current husband, Jonathan Aitken, whom she married on 25 June 2003. Jonathan already had three daughters and one son (Alexandra Aitken, Victoria Aitken, Petrina Khashoggi, and William Aitken).
Petrina Khashoggi is Jared’s sister-in-law. Petrina Khashoggi is Aitken’s kid with Khashoggi's ex wife Soraya. Iran-Contra was a big thing when I was a kid and I know Adnan Khashoggi was implicated in the Iran–Contra affair as a key middleman in the arms-for-hostages exchange along with Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar and, in a complex series of events, was found to have borrowed money for these arms purchases from the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) with Saudi and United States backing. Dodi Fayed and Jamal Khashoggi are Adnan’s nephews.
Soraya Khashoggi was born in Leicester in 1941 as plain Sandra Daly and raised in hardship by her mother, her life was utterly transformed 20 years later when she married billionaire Saudi Arabian arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. She was whisked into a life of unimaginable privilege, festooned with diamonds and furs, waited on by legions of servants, swanning between 17 homes in his three private jets, and hobnobbing with stars such as Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra. Then, after a vicious divorce battle that made lurid headlines (she had her husband's jets impounded; he 'abducted' their five children), Soraya romanced actors such as Warren Beatty and Sammy Davis Jr, director Roman Polanski, racing driver James Hunt, Winston Churchill's namesake grandson, Tory MP Jonathan Aitken (eventually revealed to have secretly fathered her daughter Petrina) and many, many more.”
Soraya’s eldest daughter is Nabila (Noble in Arabic). The Khashoggis moved to England in 1975 to avoid conflict in the region. Her father named one of his yachts ‘Nabila’ after his daughter (1980). The super-yacht would later be featured in the James Bond movie Never Say Never Again.
Nabila and Jared Harris had acting roles in the 2001 movie Perfume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume_(2001_film).
She is a Scientologist. But the fucking Yacht is what we are here for; the Nabila. During Khashoggi's ownership, it was one of the largest yachts in the world. After Khashoggi ran into financial problems (divorce, Iran-Contra), he sold the yacht in 1988 to the Sultan of Brunei (richest man on Earth, a palace built by Dick Cheney’s Bechtel), who in turn sold her to Donald Trump for $29 million. After a refit, Trump renamed her Trump Princess. Then she was sold in 1991 to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal for $20 million ($9 million less than Trump paid for it!). The yacht's latest name, Kingdom 5KR, stems from the Prince's investment company, Kingdom Holding Company, his lucky number, and his children's initials ("K" and “R"). And: “On 4 November 2017 bin Talal and other prominent Saudis were arrested in Saudi Arabia, in a purge that the Saudi government characterized as an anti-corruption drive. The allegations against Prince Al-Waleed include money laundering, bribery, and extorting officials. Al-Waleed was released from detention on 27 January 2018, following a financial settlement of some kind, after nearly three months in detention. In March 2018 he dropped out from the World's Billionaires list.”
So just out of curiosity I check the meaning of ‘Chernobyl’: The city's name is the same as a Ukrainian name for Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort or common wormwood, a compound of Ukrainian: chórnyy, 'black' and Ukrainian: byló, 'stalk', so named in distinction to the lighter-stemmed wormwood A. absinthium.
