TEENAGE princess Manohara Odelia Pinot is crushed. Her claims of being sexually and physically ravaged by her Kelantan prince husband have turned out to be a stardust-sprinkled illusion.

The twitchily restless 17-year old received more bad news yesterday when the High Court ruled that she and her fugitive mother Daisy Fajarina would have to pay Tengku Temenggong Kelantan Tengku Muhammad Fakhry for defaming him.

They failed to prove their allegations against Tengku Fakhry, 31, by not attending court and engaging new lawyers in his RM105 million defamation suit.

The court allowed Tengku Fakhry to enter judgment in default against mother and daughter. It will ascertain damages later.

On Oct 29, the court gave Manohara and her mother until yesterday to appoint new lawyers or risk having a judgment in default entered against them. Then, Messrs Fakrul Hisham Abdullah and Associates withdrew as their solicitors on record.

Tengku Fakhry’s lawyer Mohd Haaziq Pillay said: “They had their chance. Now, my client feels vindicated. The defendants have been given the opportunity to appear in court with evidence to support their allegations. But until today, they have not turned up. Money is not the issue for my client. This is about his dignity and reputation.”

The past few days have been torrid for Manohara, a well-known socialite in Indonesia, whose relationship with her mother, sources say, got strained recently.

Then, menacing Daisy got hospitalised this week, not because of the consequences of edgy relationship with her daughter, but apparently to avoid the police.

Jakarta police are looking for her in connection with a report by the owner of Stock House Butik, Sooni Ismono, alleging more than RM250,000 embezzlement by Daisy. The owner claimed that the deal involved high fashion leather handbags that Daisy was to source from Europe while she was in France in 2003.

Things got worse two days ago when Syariah lawyers — Mohd Faiz Adnan and Roshdan Sujak Rafie — pulled out from representing Manohara and Daisy in two cases in the Syariah High and Lower Courts in Kota Baru.

It will get worse on Sunday when the court hears Tengku Fakhry’s demands that the pair return a loan of about RM1 million and that Manohara stays loyal to him.

Manohara has taken a huge risk. By not returning to her husband and executing her duties as a wife, as stipulated by Islamic law and as a princess, she stands to lose her title of Cik Puan Temenggong and all material rights.

No reason was stated but it was learnt that these lawyers, too, did not get the cooperation of mother and daughter, similar to another legal firm that withdrew from representing them in the RM105 million defamation suit.

Their lawyers were frustrated that the information they received from Manohara and her mother was “just hearsay”.

Even, the medical report stating that Manohara had suffered severe beatings at the hands of Tengku Fakhry was not produced.

The out-of-control malevolence of Daisy, who many blame for leading Manohara astray, had stoked anger among Indonesians who cried for justice.

Daisy has been sentenced to 18 months’ jail in absentia in France for submitting her adopted daughter Shaliha to undignified working conditions and assault, dating back to 1998 and remains a fugitive.

Manohara’s biological father American George Manz had described Daisy as an “evil mother” and asked her to free the former teen model from her “wickedness”.

Over the past few months, public opinion has dramatically shifted in this high-society scandal with Manohara and Daisy unable to prove their allegations against Tengku Fakhry.

Comments posted on the Malay Mail online indicate that many, making neat connections between an “evil mother” and the plight of a princess, want to see a happy ending to this saga with the prince and princess reuniting.

For those of a sunny disposition, the scandal did provide some entertaining interludes, particularly claims by businessman Datuk Kadar Shah that he was the “negotiator” in the marital dispute.

Kadar Shah had also stated that he had helped Manohara to flee from her “abusive” husband from Singapore on May 31 when the couple was in the republic to visit the Sultan of Kelantan at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital.