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Caption: Dame Violet Dickson of Lincolnshire, England was the wife of British Political Agent to Kuwait HRP Dickson. They met in France after WWI. They moved to Kuwait in 1929 after living in Bahrain and Iraq. She quickly adopted many aspects of Kuwait's way of life without compromising her British identity.
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Caption: Violet did not keep to herself and socialized with the Kuwaitis, even babysitting her Kuwaiti neighbors son. Many sought her advice to their problems, and her circle of friends were mainly natives. She quickly picked up the language and the simple way of life. She was regarded as 'family' and one of the people rather than a foreign guest.
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Caption: After the passing of her husband. Dame Violet decided that she will stay in Kuwait and did not wish to relocate back to England. The Emir of Kuwait at the time bought the house she was living in from the landlord snd handed the deed to her explaining that "you are a part of this country's family" and a mother figure to many.
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Caption: Dame Violet even made friends with the nomadic women of the desert and would make the effort to go see them in the desert, not just when they come in to the city.
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Caption: A rare interview with Dame Violet on Kuwaiti television in the 1960's recalling life in Kuwait long ago ◻️
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Caption: A respectable term for the elders in the Arab world is to call someone "om- (that person's eldest son or daughter) which means "mother of-" or Abu "father of" and after her first son, Saud, who she named after the Kuwaiti raised Saudi King,people called her Om-Saud.
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Caption: She remained in Kuwait until 1990 when she was flown to England to receive medical treatment. Later that year Saddam invaded Kuwait and she heard the news on her deathbed. She did not live to see Kuwait liberated. Her old Kuwaiti mud house that she never left even after the oil boom is a cultural center today that honors her.
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