Love is in the air… but in her new movie, screenwriter Jemima Khan asks What’s Love Got To Do With It? as she explores a subject very close to my heart: arranged marriages.
My parents’ nuptials were arranged in Kashmir in the 1960s. When my mum told me her relatives chose my dad because of his family’s reputation – and that she only met him on her wedding day – I was horrified.
But that was way back. Arranged marriages have evolved and are more sophisticated now. They are not just confined to South Asian culture, either. They have even been a tradition within our own Royal Family.
