The fairy-tale story of Meriam Al-Khalifa, a member of the Gulf state of Bahrain's royal family, and US Marine Jason Johnson, who risked his career over their illicit love affair, became the subject of a television movie. But five years on, the union is headed to the courts after the Bahraini bride filed for divorce in the town known for its quickie marriages and even quicker dissolutions, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. It was what she wanted," Johnson told the paper of the couple's recent filing for divorce. The pair met in 1999 when career military man Johnson was stationed in Bahrain. But his life changed when he met the beautiful teenage princess and the pair fell in love.
