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The runaway princess: London court case could shed light on a power struggle in the Middle East
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Sheikh Maktoum’s divorce to expose secrets of UAE ruler’s house, says insider
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Sheikh Mohammed and Princess Haya say court case concerns their children
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It doesn’t help to be a princess in the Gulf
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Dubai’s runaway Princess Haya is the least of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid’s problems
Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is in a league of his own. His approach to governing the emirate – he functioned more as a corporate chief executive with a knack for investing than as an oil monarch presiding over a tribal polity of loyalists turned citizens – made him an exception in…
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The Fairy Tale Is Over for Dubai’s Royal Family
Sheikh Mohammed’s wife has fled her home—and that may just be the beginning of his troubles. Everything about the story of Haya bint al-Hussein has always been remarkable. The half-sister of the current Jordanian king, Princess Haya has long been the most publicly visible and widely known of the six wives of Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh…
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The power struggle surrounding the UAE’s latest runaway princess
Legal battle lines have been drawn up for a court case in London at the end of this month in which unprecedented revelations are expected to be made about one of the most powerful monarchies in the Middle East. The case, involving the ruler of Dubai and his sixth wife, comes with some extraordinary chapters…
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Silks join campaign over missing Dubai princess
Two senior barristers have joined a legal campaign seeking the release of a Middle Eastern princess who was allegedly abducted on the orders of her father. The disappearance of Princess Latifa al-Maktoum, the daughter of the ruler of Dubai, has been linked to the decision of her stepmother, Princess Haya bint al-Hussein, to seek sanctuary…
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Inside story: Princess Haya’s divorce and the Gulf royals caught between two worlds
Headlines have a way of coming back to haunt you. Two years ago, in an interview with the society magazine, Tatler, the glamorous Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein, wife of the billionaire Emir of Dubai, was hailed as “changing the way women are perceived in the Middle East”. Alongside a picture of the 45-year-old Jordanian-born princess…
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Gulf states’ ruling families spill their dirty secrets in London