The most talked-about wedding of the year was unpleasant for the Nayars as they were heckled by their sons and apparently shown disrespect at every step of the way. “I believe it was expressly done on Elizabeth's orders," 66-year-old Vinod Nayar painfully recalls.

"I once thought Liz was a lovely, unspoiled woman, but now I see that she is a very hard person. It was important for her to get celebrity faces there. That's what the Hello! deal was about. She was fulfilling her contractual obligation," he added.

Vinod says his wife and he were "publicly humiliated and treated like social outcasts" for what he thinks was a mere £2 million magazine deal.

Liz refused to wear a £35,000 diamond and ruby necklace that was a wedding gift from Vinod. It is Hindu tradition that a father-in-law welcomes the new bride into his home as the head of the family. Vinod was denied this privilege and was pushed away by his son Nikhil, who threatened to call in security guards if he did not go away.

"Everyone seems to know that there was a huge bust-up. But certain people have maliciously decided to make my wife Joanne the scapegoat. They say that she had a fight with Liz because she was trying to hog the limelight," Vinod said, adding the whole issue was wrongly perceived by the media when in fact it was he who was humiliated.

Vinod was also upset by Liz's refusal to wear his wedding gift, "I was deeply upset. She opted to wear a necklace that Arun's mother had loaned to Valentina for her wedding to him. I thought this was in very poor taste, and that she should have something new," he explained.

Joanne felt her husband had been victimized, "I was brought up as the daughter of an Army officer who was awarded the Burma Star. And I have kept the principles I was brought up with. Liz and her kind are just upstarts," she said.

The final straw for Vinod was the way he was treated at the Jodhpur bash. In anger he canceled the £30,000 dinner for 250 people he had planned for the couple. "I figured that if they could treat us so shabbily, there was no guarantee they would actually come to the party I had organized in their honour," he clarified.

The Daily Mail reports that this free speaking interview has not gone down well with Liz Hurley and has almost wiped out the honeymoon glow off her face. A source told the newspaper that Liz had gone "ballistic" after hearing of the things said by her in-laws.

"She doesn’t think that they have taken into consideration how much planning went into the wedding celebrations - she was under a lot of pressure and was very, very stressed, and perhaps they misinterpreted this for rudeness," the source said. "Now, Liz has even offered to reimburse the Nayars if they feel they’re out of pocket and hopes that this will be the end of the matter."

Vinod has also decided to disown his sons and their wives declaring he has noting to do with them.

 

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