Daily Mail

Jane Johnson gave up her life in the UK to marry a Berber tribesman

Can you imagine giving up everything you know to move to a different country…on another continent…to marry a man who doesn’t live like a Westerner? I’m cool with all three parts of that statement, but not even I can imagine pulling a move like Jane Johnson‘s. The Sultan’s Wife author moved to the mountains of northern Morocco to marry a Berber tribesman. Though Berbers aren’t barbarians (though, literally translated, the word means just that), I just can’t picture myself riding a camel to work, covering myself up (no V-neck T-shirts? I wouldn’t last a week!) or living in a country where drinking isn’t a socially accepted custom. God knows how an English woman is managing the latter. Though I personally wouldn’t make this personally trek for love, Jane did — and found her happy ending. This is her story. more…