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Isobel Margaret Smith

Born 2nd March 1969 in Kingston - On - Thames, Surrey.

1st Wife of Saif Al-Islam Gadaffi

(Married 1987, and re-registered the Cairo Marriage Documents in Paris in 2000).

Daughter of Duncan Cochrane Smith - Ministry of Defence with a lab working on the design of Nuclear Submarines, from Fife in Scotland.

Daughter of Joan Hyde, who was daughter of James Hyde (War Office with Churchill specialising in the Far East namely the Phillipines, Indonesia and China).

Neice of Kathleen and Michael Simons, the latter Vetinary to HRH Queen Elizabeth II and various racecourses including Epsom Racecourse. Kathleen was the first women Vet in the World and, and Author under the Alias Katlyn Barber. (My Three Legged Friends and Other Animals In a Vets Life).

Kate speicalised first of all in small animals, then larger farm animals, leading to a position with the Minsitry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in charge of the entire South, from the Headquarters in London and out in the Field. Managing Contagious Diseases including Foulpest, BSE and Avian Bird Flu etc. Kate had two daughters, Louise and Susan Simons, and the entire family are very equestrian. Isobel inherited the girls' family pony, and was hacking out accross the South Downs with the larger horses and riders from the age of 6. Fearlessly.

Isobel was presented to then Prince Charles on the Hunting Field of the Meynell and South Staffs Hunt when she was Sweet 16. On a four year old thoroughbred racehorse she had bought, which needed red ribbons in his tail, but was sought ofther for Point to Pointing by one of the sons of the Master. Charlie Prince.

Isobel had by this time had much experience in the equestrian field incluing training racehorses for Barry Morgan of Dunstall Hall Staffordshire, and backing and bringing on competition horses at John Goodwin International at Wychnor Park. By 14 she had backed her first competition horse, and had him going off both rains from walk to canter and back again, within 15 minutes. The yard hosted events, and was frequented by Jennie Lorriston Clarke, most of the British Showjumpers and Eventers, as well as International Speicalists in subjects such as Horse Whispering (Sven from Sweden stayed at the yard regularly). Isobel was a Marshall on the Sheriff's Ride, Lichfield with the rest of the staff and guests of John Goodwin by the age of 15.

Soon afterwards she was presented to the son of the late Muammer Gadaffi, Saif Al-Islam Gadaffi at a Party by the Royal Family, along with many other girls, as Muammer Gadaffi had expressed an interest in finding a suitable match for Saif while he was training with his brother Muhammed at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy.

Muhammed, Saif's brother liked Isobel as she wasn't fooled by Ghislaine Maxwell or the louche behviour of Prince Andrew.

The couple soon started courting on their own during the day, Isobel staying in a Convent with Nuns (Isobels' mother thought this was a good idea due to her age, and had done this herself when she started Midwifery in the 1950's), or with family friends in Worcester Park or over at Hampton Wick. Isobel's father had kept a four masted schooner at Tuffs Boatyard at Hampton Wick named "Bertha of Ibiza" when he liased with Charles Mc Clendon CIA for MI6. Charles had another boat named Mahe, and the two men worked as Spooks in the 1960's and 1970's as well as desiging and building (parts for the Royal Barge as well as Nuclear Subs, plus sailing about the world on "Nuclear Submarines - (Salvage when there were accidents, and tracking).

Isobel's mother wanted "Independence", in her career and was working as the world's first female Medical Rep for Satra in a Global Position - Europe. She'd taken a sabbatical from Midwifery and spent time at Mont Sinai Hospital in New York specialising in nursing ain the Brain Surgery and Iron Lung Departments consecutively. THere she met Jack Merwis from S. Africa who ran the hospital in Suweto for the black population on his return there. As well as traveling with her frriends, skiing at Lake Placid and holidaying on the British Virgin Islands (where notoriiouslyh her VISA ran out). There was no chance of getting a mortgage without a husband, and so she bought a houseboat, which was moored up on Swan Island on the River Thames. There she met Isobel's father, living on one of the schooners getting divorced from his first wife in Hampstead.

Joan loved to travel and seont time in Sardinia with 9 friends in the mid 1950's, got a musician signed up at EMI London, who married one of her friends and who later became PA to the Agha Khan. Shah Karim al-Husayni