The crown prince of Dubai’s daughter, who was allegedly kidnapped by members of her father’s staff, is believed to have been staying with an Australian friend in London shortly before her alleged abduction back to her father’s palace in Dubai.

Young woman evaded perimeter guards and video cameras to slip through open gate

The teenage daughter of the billionaire Crown Prince of Dubai dodged security guards and fled from her father’s vast private estate in Surrey in a Range Rover, her friends have told the Guardian.

Ministers were last night facing calls to reveal what steps have been taken to investigate allegations made by a woman claiming to be the daughter of Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum, one of the world’s richest Arab leaders, that she was kidnapped from a street in Cambridge by members of the sheikh’s staff.