of adultery in Saudi Arabia; she and her lover were sentenced to death on the explicit instructions of her grandfather, Prince Muhammad, who was a senior member of the royal family, for the alleged dishonour she brought on her clan and defying a royal order calling for her to marry a man selected by the family, and were subject to public execution. Western media criticized the event as a violation of women's rights. A British TV channel presented a dramatized documentary, Death of a Princess, which was based on this incident. The broadcast hurt Saudi–UK relations significantly. Following the execution, segregation of women became more severe, and the religious police also began patrolling bazaars, shopping malls and any other place where men and women might happen to meet. When Prince Muhammad was later asked if the two deaths were necessary, he said, "It was enough for me that they were in the same room together". Wealth Prince Muhammad owned various business interests. He had considerable wealth which was based on his share of the sales of crude oil. In the early 1980s his daily share was half a million barrels of oil. Views Prince Muhammad objected to King Abdulaziz's appointment of his eldest son, Saud, as crown prince. He sent a letter to his father stating his negative views about Prince Saud's capacity to rule the state. Following the announcement that Prince Khalid was chosen as crown prince on 29 March 1965 Radio Mecca reported a statement by Prince Muhammad: "I would rather stay away from positions and titles." Prince Muhammad later stated that he would not be a good king if he would have been chosen as the king. Prince Muhammad led the conservative members of the royal family. They did not support the fast modernization of the society witnessed at the end of the 1970s and thought that modernization and the presence of too many foreign workers in the country would lead to the erosion of traditional Muslim values. Personal life Muhammad bin Abdulaziz married five times to women linked to the Al Saud family. One of them was his cousin Sara, daughter of his father's brother Saad bin Abdul Rahman. Prince Muhammad also had concubines. In 1945 he allegedly had an extramarital affair with an Arab-American woman in the US, and although he denied the reports, the incident caused a conflict between Prince Muhammad and the future