Lulu Skidmore volunteered to take on the whole project. She had been an enthusiastic horsewoman all her life, had worked on a stud farm in South Africa, and had earned a degree in animal science from the University of London. She was independent and self-confident, with an adventurous streak. Everybody knows everything about horses. If I were you, I'd go into camels.
Nobody knows a thing about camels.
You could be the queen of the field. Sheikh Mohammed's chief veterinary adviser, Ahmed Mustansir Billah, agreed to give it a try. The thought of working as a woman in an Arab culture did not bother Skidmore, and her hard work and obvious skill seem to have quelled any objections. Sheikh Mohammed himself underwrote her doctoral dissertation. Her first decree as queen was to allow the camels to sit in her presence.