confined to a palace in Saudi Arabia

""Princess Al-Sudairi's lavish foreign trips have even proved too much for King Abdullah, who confined her to a palace in the oil-rich state in 2009 after she left a trail of unpaid bills across Europe. But the ex-wife of Nayef ben Abdel Aziz, the former Saudi Crown Prince, who died weeks after the Paris incident, escaped and headed for France. Princess Maha has a history of frustrating foreign police forces.""