The charm of brazen bimbos - or courageous heroines with irresistable life force?
Is he a cad? Or is it just love, overwhelming, passionate, fascinating and endlessly amusing love? Britain’s former Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray left his wife and children for this woman, who is now telling her story in a one-woman show that will open in London in January, and in interviews with the press that he writes about on his blog, here, as follows: “Good interview with Nadira in the Sunday Times today. It is brilliant that she now gets to tell her own story, and it certainly opens up a huge raft of questions. Apparently there are some great photos in the newspaper, which they haven’t put on the net…” In another post, Murray wrote: “She reveals some things about me I would perhaps not have voluntered myself, but then that’s freedom of speech!”
The Sunday Times wrote that “Instead of the comfortable life in the West he promised, she became the target of a smear campaign started after Murray criticised the British government for using intelligence obtained by torture in Uzbekistan. ‘The government was using me as a cheap way of discrediting Craig’, she said. ‘I was described as a bimbo, a prostitute, “stupidly beautiful” by journalists. In fact I have a degree. I was supporting my family’. Not only was the relationship between the 22-year-old dancer and portly 48-year-old diplomat splashed across the tabloids but Murray lost his job and the couple ended up in a cramped rented flat in Shepherd’s Bush…” (See “Ambassador’s belly dancer stages her life“, here. )
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I thought he was looking for a quiet life………………..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=502501&in_page_id=1879
Apparently he was living a quiet life at one point, while she was out trying to earn a living… This is a great line: “Pretending seems to excite so many men…” Then, almost every cliche in the books: “I was penniless, thousands of miles from home and my lover Craig Murray, Britain’s former Ambassador to Uzbekistan, had been fired by the Foreign Office and told he had just six months to live… all we had eaten for weeks was toast. Craig retreated into a world of his own as he wrestled with what was left of his future and I felt neglected…I had then bought a transparent black dress, sexy underwear and some black platform shoes which made me fabulously tall.”
This is really making me laugh…
“Being good in life hadn’t helped, so I thought I might as well be bad. It was a business move…”
And, then this:
“If there is one thing my life has taught me it is that no matter what you plan and what you think you have earned and what you deserve, it probably won’t work out that way”…
Wonder what she would be doing if His Excellency had stayed under the radar and accepted the post in Copenhagen. She would have made the diplomatic circuit…………
…even more lively than the American wife of the former Swiss diplomat, who liked to pose in cowboy hats, and get involved in business…