Brit’s new father-in-law is Osama bin Laden

When an eccentric British granny revealed she had taken a new husband, it wasn’t that she is a quarter-century older that raised eyebrows.

It wasn’t that Jane Felix-Browne lives in a village in northwestern England and he lives in Saudi Arabia.

It wasn’t even that it’s her sixth marriage, or that he already has a wife.

It was the identity of her new father-in-law: Osama bin Laden.

“I hope people don’t judge me too harshly. I married the son, not the father,” Jane Felix-Browne, 51, told the Times of London.

But as to his name, “I won’t be using it myself.”

The extraordinary tale of Felix-Browne’s marriage to Omar bin Laden, the terror chief’s fourth son, took Britain by storm Wednesday just as al-Qaida issued a new threat against London.

Felix-Browne said her new husband had nothing to do with terrorism.

“I just married the man I met and fell in love with – to me he is just Omar,” she said. “His heart is pure. He is pious, quiet, a true gentleman, and he is my best friend.”

Felix-Browne, a parish official in the village of Moulton in Cheshire, said the couple met in Egypt last September, riding horses around the pyramids of Giza.

A former interior designer who decorated airplane cabins, Felix-Browne was in Egypt for experimental treatment of her multiple sclerosis, while Omar, 27, was there on vacation. Omar, one of at least 17 children fathered by bin Laden, is a scrap-metal dealer in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he already has a wife.

She proposed. He said yes. They wed soon after. The London Sun printed their marriage certificate.

Then they both went home. They haven’t seen each other since. She said they talk on the phone for “up to 15 hours a day.”

“I find it very difficult to live without him, and I know he does too. But really we have the most normal life possible,” she said.

Omar bin Laden claims to have last seen his father in Afghanistan in 2000.

“He misses his father,” she said. “Omar doesn’t know if it was his father who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks,” she said.

Felix-Browne, whose first marriage was at 16 to a Saudi man in London, says she thinks she met her now-father-in-law at a party in the 1970s. She’d be interested to meet him again, she said.

“You know, the newspapers say he did it and certain newspapers say they don’t know, so that is one question I would ask: ‘Did you do it?’ Because I don’t know,” she said.