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The Runaway Princesses of Dubai
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai rules one of the world’s richest city-states–and prides himself on being progressive. So why do women from his family keep fleeing? The Royal Courts of Justice, a massive Victorian Gothic structure on the Strand in the heart of London built in the 1870s, is not typically the…
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Israeli spyware tool ‘used to trace fugitive Princess Latifa’
A spyware tool developed by an Israeli security company might have been used to trace an Emirati princess who tried to flee her father’s kingdom. Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum was recaptured by commandos in a yacht off the coast of India. She fled from Dubai with Tiina Jauhiainen, a fitness instructor she had become…
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Data leak raises new questions over capture of Princess Latifa
Listings of phones belonging to royal and her friends coincide with her dramatic escape from Dubai and eventual recapture. For a few days Princess Latifa had dared to think she could relax. An extraordinary plan to escape from a father she said had once ordered her “constant torture” was looking as if it might work,…
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A princess raced to escape Dubai’s powerful ruler. Then her phone appeared on the list.
In the days before commandos dragged Princess Latifa from her getaway yacht in the Indian Ocean, her number was added to a list that included targets of a powerful spyware, a new investigation shows. The princess had been careful, so she left her phone in the cafe’s bathroom. She’d seen what her father could do…
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FBI ‘duped into helping sheikh seize daughter in yacht raid’
The FBI was tricked into helping the ruler of Dubai abduct his daughter from a yacht as she tried to escape his control, it has been claimed. Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum was seized by Indian army commandos off the coast of Goa in March 2018. She claimed to have been held prisoner by her…
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How the FBI played a role in the capture of Princess Latifa of Dubai
On a yacht in the Indian Ocean, heavily armed commandos seized the princess. “Shoot me here! Don’t take me back!” Princess Latifa – whose full name is Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum – screamed during the raid in March 2018 as the armed men bound her wrists. They had been sent by her father, the billionaire…
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‘Kidnapped’ Princess Latifa pictured at Madrid airport
Friends of a Dubai princess who claimed to have been kidnapped and held captive by her billionaire father are suspending a campaign to free her after a photograph appeared to show her on holiday in Spain with a British teacher. Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, the daughter of the ruler of Dubai, appeared in the…
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Has Dubai’s Missing Princess Latifa Surfaced for Good?
In 2018, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum tried to flee Dubai by boat. Her father is Dubai’s ruler, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, and the dramatic plan to sail across the Indian Ocean was scuttled when soldiers detained her and brought her back to Dubai. Latifa then went troublingly quiet, eventually prompting a United Nations…
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Dubai ruler’s Kildare stud receives €225,000 in state grants
A stud farm in Kildare owned by Dubai’s billionaire ruler received more than €225,000 in state grants last year. Godolphin Ireland, owned by the Al Maktoum family, received the third largest agricultural subsidy of 2020, according to data published by the Department of Agriculture. It received €222,277 in direct farm payments under the common agriculture…
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Camera ‘is lying’ in pictures of Dubai princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum
Two British women who published photographs of nights out with a missing Dubai princess were ordered to do so, a source close to her has claimed, raising fresh fears for the 35-year-old’s health. Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, daughter of Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed, claimed in videos leaked to the media in February that she…