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The inside story of the Dubai princess who fled from her billionaire father

Two years ago, Princess Latifa staged an escape from her repressed life in Dubai. It failed and she hasn’t been seen in public since. When we got in the car on the day of our escape, I turned to Latifa and said, ‘We’re like Thelma and Louise,’ says Tiina Jauhiainen, with a small smile at…

February 22, 2020
“You’re Essentially a Prisoner”: Why Do Dubai’s Princesses Keep Trying to Escape?

First Princess Latifa tried to flee by boat and almost made it to India—before being sent back. Then Princess Haya, Sheikh Mohammed’s “public wife,” refused to return from England. Now the sheikh is battling her in court over their children. Amid the fine horses competing in this year’s Royal Ascot, the red-coated postilions driving the…

February 20, 2020
Ivanka Trump’s latest Dubai trip proves misogyny has powerful Western enablers

The first daughter’s participation helps to camouflage this fact with public bromides about “girl power” and business stories about women entrepreneurs. The Trump administration last weekend sent Ivanka Trump, its senior and nominally most feminist presidential adviser, to Dubai to headline a two-day Global Women’s Forum called “The Power of Influence.” In her keynote address,…

February 19, 2020
Randa al-Banna interview: ‘Our baby is now in her forties. The emir still won’t let me near’

The first wife of Dubai’s ruler says she was kicked out of the country when her marriage ended in the 1970s — and hasn’t seen her daughter since. When Randa al-Banna met the prince, she had no idea who he was. It was 1972, she was 16 years old and she had just been expelled…

December 22, 2019
Truth about Sheikh Maktoum’s missing princesses Latifa and Shamsa could be revealed in his High Court fight with Princess Haya

The High Court battle between Princess Haya and Dubai’s billionaire ruler could unlock the truth about two of his children who vanished and are allegedly imprisoned in his Gulf state.

November 14, 2019
Could this court case unlock the mystery of Dubai’s missing princesses Latifa and Shamsa?

To the outside world, Princess Latifa of Dubai appeared to live a life of unbridled luxury. Whether it was skydiving over one of the world’s most scenic deserts or filming the exotic pets that ran free in her mother’s palace, she always appeared smiling, happy and carefree, at least on social media. Yet in February…

November 14, 2019
Princess Haya attends hearing in London family court

A London court has started a closed hearing on a case brought by Dubai Princess Haya against her husband, Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum. The Oxford-educated princess had sought protection in the UK.

November 12, 2019
Princess Haya in court for London hearing in legal battle with Dubai’s ruler

Princess Haya bint al-Hussein, the estranged wife of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, appeared in a British court on Tuesday for the latest hearing in the couple’s legal battle over the welfare of their children.

November 12, 2019
“You’re Essentially a Prisoner”: Why Do Dubai’s Princesses Keep Trying to Escape?

First Princess Latifa tried to flee by boat and almost made it to India—before being sent back. Then Princess Haya, Sheikh Mohammed’s “public wife,” refused to return from England. Now the sheikh is battling her in court over their children.

November 11, 2019
Runaway Princess Haya is made envoy

A princess battling the ruler of Dubai over the custody of their two children has been made a senior diplomat at the Jordanian embassy in London. Princess Haya bint al-Hussein, 45, the sister of King Abdullah of Jordan, returned to the family division of the High Court yesterday for a preliminary hearing before a full…

October 30, 2019

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