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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A UK court awarded <keyword id="12273473" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="princess-haya" source="Orion">Princess Haya</keyword> $734 million Sunday in her divorce from Sheikh Mohammed.</li><li>Haya fled to the UK in 2019 after learning Mohammed was accused of imprisoning one of his daughters.</li></ul>Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum must pay a £554 million ($734 million) settlement to his ex-wife Princess Haya, <a href="https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2021/94.html">a UK judge ruled</a>.Haya and Mohammed, the emir of <keyword id="6354539" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dubai" source="Orion">Dubai</keyword>, separated in 2019 after he learned she was having an affair with Russell Flowers, her British bodyguard, the court heard during proceedings.She fled to the UK that year with the two children, now 14 and 9, she shared with Mohammed after learning he was accused of imprisoning one of his other children, <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-latifa-escape-dubai-friend-interview-2019-7">Princess Latifa</a>, because she tried to escape.After Haya left, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/princess-haya-dubai-flees-husband-sheik-al-maktoum-2019-7">Mohammed published a poem</a> titled "Affection in Your Eyes" in which he wrote, "We have an ailment that no medicine can cure."As part of the settlement, Justice Philip Moor ruled that Mohammed must pay Haya £251 million within three months and that he must set up an education fund worth £3 million for the children.Moor said Mohammed must pay £13.6 million for Haya's jewelry, £1 million for haute-couture clothing, £1 million for cars, and £5 million for racehorses.The ruling by Moor also laid bare the extent of the couple's wealth and said Haya tried to bribe her security staff to keep her affair secret from her husband.The judgment said that in her attempt to stop her husband finding out about Flowers, Haya paid bribes to "blackmailers" in her security staff who threatened to leak the affair to her husband.To fund the payments, Haya took $9.3 million from the bank accounts of one of her children, the judgment said."I was scared, and that was the money available in that account," she previously told the court. The security staffers who the judgment said received the payoffs were identified as Mr. A, Mr. B, and Mr. C.The judgment said Mr. A received $3.3 million, while Mr. B and Mr. C shared $5.9 million."These individuals had blackmailed HRH over an affair she had with one of these four people," the judge wrote. "Nobody should be blackmailed and HRH must have been very frightened at this point."The judgment also shed light on the vast wealth that both parties had access to. It said:<ul><li>While married, Haya and Mohammed spent £2 million on strawberries in one summer.</li><li>Their two children had an allowance of £10 million each per year. </li><li>While married, Haya was given an £83 million annual allowance.</li><li>In court proceedings, Haya asked the court to help her retrieve €74 million ($83 million) worth of clothing and £20 million worth of jewelry that Mohammed had in his possession.</li></ul>

UK court orders Sheikh Mohammed to pay $734 million divorce settlement to Princess Haya, who fled in 2019 after he was accused of imprisoning his daughter

Mobile phone numbers belonging to <keyword id="1861561" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Princess-Haya">Princess Haya</keyword> bint al-Hussein of Dubai, her closest aides, advisers and friends, were being entered into a computer system operated by agents of the emirate of Dubai, one of the clients of spyware manufacturer <keyword id="3598670" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="NSO-Group">NSO Group</keyword>, <keyword id="115220" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-Guardian">The Guardian</keyword> reported. Closest aides and friends of the emir's ex-wife also began to appear on the database as she moved to the UK. As her plane touched down in April 2019, Princess <keyword id="279365" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Haya">Haya</keyword>, who was accompanied by her two children, might have hoped she was beyond the reach of her ex-husband, the emir of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum. The phone numbers of Haya, and eight of her close associates, appear in a dataset believed to indicate people of interest to a government client of <keyword id="2501810" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="NSO">NSO</keyword>. That data has been obtained by Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International, and analysed by media organisations around the world, including the Guardian. The numbers in the leaked records include those of Haya's personal assistant, senior staff at her private security firm, and even one of the lawyers advising her in her custody dispute with Sheikh Mohammed. The Guardian reported her relationship with Sheikh Mohammed, which had been cordial, began to deteriorate following a highly public and unsuccessful escape attempt by another of his children, Princess <keyword id="922104" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Latifa">Latifa</keyword>. Haya, according to the judgment, began making inquiries about Latifa's welfare, but subsequently began to experience a "progressively more hostile climate" from the sheikh and his advisers. Trusted staff members were dismissed without her approval, and Haya and her representative were ejected from the ruler's court - "a huge public slap in the face", she said. She also discovered that Sheikh Mohammed had divorced her under sharia law on February 7, 2019, the anniversary of her father's death, without telling her first, the report said. A few weeks later, the judgment described how she claimed Sheikh Mohammed phoned her directly. "I have received bad news about you," he said, making an ambiguous reference to her relationship with one of her bodyguards, "I am starting to doubt you." Haya told the court that the call "terrified" her. The report said anonymous, threatening notes, and even firearms, were left in her bedroom, she claims. On March 11, 2019, a helicopter landed outside her house, and a pilot emerged and informed her that he had come to transport a single passenger to Awir, a UAE desert prison. Haya attempted to defuse the situation by laughing it off as a joke, while one of her children clung to her leg in terror, and the pilot eventually left. (Sheikh Mohammed told the court the incident was "simply a mistake".) The report added that by this stage Haya had resolved that her position was "wholly unsafe and untenable", and in April 2019, she arrived in the UK with her two children. She claims that the following month, Sheikh Mohammed told her directly: "You and the children will never be safe in England." The Guardian said shortly before Haya arrived in London, and continuing into at least the summer of 2019, the phone numbers of people around her began to appear on the database seen by the <keyword id="6389936" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="pegasus">Pegasus</keyword> project. Among them were Martin Smith, the CEO of <keyword id="57758" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Quest">Quest</keyword>, which had for several years provided Haya with her private security. The firm's director of investigations was on the list, as was Shimon Cohen, a public relations expert and a communications adviser to Quest. John Gosden, a horse racing trainer and a friend of Haya, confirmed a number in the dataset belonged to him, but declined to comment. Also appearing in the list were phone numbers belonging to one of Haya's aides, and even a lawyer at a London firm of solicitors advising Haya. The firm declined to comment, but asked the Pegasus project consortium not to identify the aide or the lawyer, the report said. 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Princess Latifa and Princess Haya named in Pegasus data hack

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="7105858" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Princess-Latifa">Princess Latifa</keyword> tried to flee <keyword id="6354539" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dubai">Dubai</keyword> in 2018 but was caught and subsequently vanished.</li><li>A video of her emerged in February in which she said she was being held hostage by her family.</li><li>A photo posted to Instagram Monday by a Dubai teacher showed Latifa at an airport in Madrid, Spain. </li></ul>A photo posted to Instagram on Monday appears to show a Dubai princess <a href="https://www.insider.com/dubai-princess-latifa-says-family-holding-hostage-2021-2">who says she was being imprisoned by her family</a> embarking on a "European holiday."Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, the daughter of Dubai's ruler <keyword id="348909" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Sheikh-Mohammed">Sheikh Mohammed</keyword> bin Rashid al-Maktoum, tried to flee Dubai by boat in February 2018 but was intercepted off the coast of India.Nothing was heard from Latifa until February this year, when <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-middle-east-56084768">the BBC published a video</a> of her in which she said was being held "hostage" by her family in Dubai in a villa that "has been converted into a jail."The United Nations has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/20/release-dubai-princess-latifa-un-experts-tell-united-arab-emirates">called for her release</a>, with spokesperson Marta Hurtado <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/uae-has-failed-to-show-proof-that-princess-latifa-is-alive-says-un#:~:text=1%20month%20old-,UAE%20has%20failed%20to%20show%20proof,Latifa%20is%20alive%2C%20says%20UN&amp;text=The%20UN%20says%20the%20United,late%202018%20%E2%80%93%20is%20still%20alive.ive.">saying in April </a>that the United Arab Emirates had failed to provide proof that she was still alive.However, a photo posted to Instagram Monday by a person <a href="https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-middle-east-dubai-europe-spain-6203392896d12b3cb97521137266ea30">identified by the Associated Press</a> as former Royal Navy member Sioned Taylor shows Latifa at Madrid's Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport.Taylor is currently a teacher based in Dubai, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kidnapped-dubai-princess-latifa-on-holiday-in-spain-pkp7bn0xd">The Times of London reported</a>.In response to a comment under the Monday post that asked after Latifa's wellbeing, Taylor replied: "She is great."Read more: <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-latifa-escape-dubai-friend-interview-2019-7">Princess Latifa of Dubai tried to flee the royal family, but got caught and dragged back. Here's how her doomed escape went down, according to the friend who fled with her.</a>Last month, Taylor also posted <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-latifa-photo-of-dubai-princess-suggests-she-is-alive-2021-5">two photos of Latifa taken at a mall in Dubai</a> with another woman.Sources told <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/camera-is-lying-in-pictures-of-dubai-princess-latifa-bint-mohammed-al-maktoum-cvgk7t2lb">The Times</a> at the time that the photos were clearly staged and that Latifa knew the women before she tried to flee."They have been ordered to take those photos and not to talk about it," the person said, per The Times. Insider has contacted the Dubai Media Office and the campaign to free Latifa for comment.

Photo shows a Dubai princess who claims she's being held hostage by her family on a 'European holiday' in Spain

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A photo of <keyword id="7105858" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Princess-Latifa">Princess Latifa</keyword> in a <keyword id="6354539" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dubai">Dubai</keyword> mall suggests that she is alive, <keyword id="106434" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Sky-News">Sky News</keyword> reported.</li><li>This is the first sighting of her since the release of videos in which she claimed her family was holding her hostage.</li><li>Last month, a UN spokesperson had said that the <keyword id="6358356" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="uae">UAE</keyword> had failed to provide compelling proof that she was still alive.</li></ul>A photo of Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, the daughter of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, appears to show that she is alive, according to <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/princess-latifa-image-appears-to-show-her-alive-in-mall-in-dubai-12313567">Sky News.</a>This is the first sighting of the Dubai princess since videos were released by BBC Panorama of her claiming that she was being held hostage against her will in a "villa prison" under constant police surveillance, <a href="https://www.insider.com/dubai-princess-latifa-says-family-holding-hostage-2021-2">Insider's Julie Gerstein</a> reported.It would also be the first time that Princess Latifa has been seen in public since late 2018, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/uae-has-failed-to-show-proof-that-princess-latifa-is-alive-says-un#:~:text=1%20month%20old-,UAE%20has%20failed%20to%20show%20proof,Latifa%20is%20alive%2C%20says%20UN&amp;text=The%20UN%20says%20the%20United,late%202018%20%E2%80%93%20is%20still%20alive.ive.">The Guardian</a> said.There were concerns in the <keyword id="6356001" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="international">international</keyword> community that Princess Latifa was dead, a claim her family has repeatedly refuted. In April, Marta Hurtado, a United Nations spokesperson, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/uae-has-failed-to-show-proof-that-princess-latifa-is-alive-says-un#:~:text=1%20month%20old-,UAE%20has%20failed%20to%20show%20proof,Latifa%20is%20alive%2C%20says%20UN&amp;text=The%20UN%20says%20the%20United,late%202018%20%E2%80%93%20is%20still%20alive.ive.">said </a>that the United Arab Emirates had failed to provide compelling proof that she was still alive.But the image, obtained by Sky <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">News</keyword>, appears to have been taken at the mall of the Emirates in Dubai at some time during the COVID-19 pandemic, the media outlet said.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-university-set-to-open-uae-abu-dhabi-2020-8">Inside the world's first AI-focused university in Abu Dhabi, which opens in January 2021 and will offer all students full scholarships</a>The photograph posted two days ago to Instagram includes face masks on the table. This suggests that the image was taken since the outbreak of the coronavirus, Sky News said.David Haigh, the co-founder of the Free Latifa campaign and Detained International, told the media outlet: "We confirm that there have been several potentially significant and positive developments in the campaign."We do not intend to comment further at this stage. A further statement will be issued at the appropriate time".Princess Latifa made headlines around the world when the BBC released secretly-recorded videos.In 2018, the Emirati royal failed to escape Dubai after claiming that her father was the "most evil person" she'd ever met, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/princess-sheikha-latifa-planed-7-year-escape-from-uae-dubai-report-2018-12?_ga=2.129961932.1580035817.1621497726-1552578624.1611402583">Insider previously reported</a>.She was caught and sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison. The princess claimed in the February videos that she was being guarded by police officers, unable to leave her home, and was being held "hostage" by her family.

New photo suggests Princess Latifa is alive. This is the first sighting of the Dubai princess since videos emerged of her claiming she was being held hostage.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The Queen accepted racehorses from Sheikh Mohammed, the Emir of <keyword id="6354539" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dubai">Dubai</keyword>, The Times reported.</li><li>The Sheikh is accused of imprisoning his daughter, <keyword id="7105858" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Princess-Latifa">Princess Latifa</keyword>, after she tried to escape.</li><li>One of his wives, Princess Haya, said she fled Dubai for London after learning of Latifa's plight.</li></ul>Queen Elizabeth II accepted gifts from the ruler of Dubai in the wake of allegations that he abducted and tortured his daughter, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/queen-has-accepted-racehorses-from-ruler-of-dubai-even-after-his-wife-princess-haya-fled-to-london-n6fskwlj9">The Times of London reported Sunday.</a>Buckingham Palace received nine racehorses from Godolphin Racing, a stable owned by <keyword id="1465490" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Sheikh-Mohammed-bin-Rashid-al-Maktoum">Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum</keyword>, from April 2019, The Times said. That same month, the Sheikh's youngest wife, Princess Haya, had <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-haya-dubai-flees-husband-sheik-al-maktoum-2019-7">fled Dubai for London with her children</a>, saying she feared for her life after hearing allegations that her husband had tortured and imprisoned Princess Latifa, one of his other children.Insider contacted Buckingham Palace and the government of Dubai for comment about the gifts.<div type="image" title="princess haya epsom" height="1000" width="2000" msid="81274414" hostid="261"></div>The Queen and Sheikh Mohammed have been close for decades, bonding over a shared love of horse racing.However, the relationship came under scrutiny after it was claimed that Sheikh Mohammed abused his daughter and threatened his wife. In February 2018, one of the Sheikh's children, Princess Latifa, <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-latifa-escape-dubai-friend-interview-2019-7">fled Dubai by boat with the help of her martial arts instructor</a> and a self-styled former French spy. Emirati commandos captured their boat off the coast of India, and Latifa was returned to Dubai. <a href="https://freelatifa.com/full-length-latifa-video/">In a pre-recorded video released after her capture</a>, Latifa said she escaped because she had been beaten and tortured on her father's orders.In February 2021, a number of new videos of Latifa were shared with the BBC. In the videos, <a href="https://www.insider.com/dubai-princess-latifa-says-family-holding-hostage-2021-2">Latifa said she was still being detained</a> in a "villa prison" by police as a result of her escape attempt.<div type="image" title="Princess Lartifa" height="768" width="1536" msid="81274415" hostid="261"></div>The fallout from the escape saw Princess Haya flee Dubai for the UK with the two children she shared with the Sheikh.The princess sued for custody of her children upon arrival in London, and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48843168">said she feared for her life</a> after realizing that he had imprisoned Princess Latifa. She said that the Sheikh had threatened her, saying "you and the children will never be safe in England," in May 2019.The UK High Court said <a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Al-M-Factfinding-APPROVED-Judgment-111219-for-publication.pdf">in a fact-finding judgment</a> released in March 2020 that Sheikh Mohammed was responsible for abducting Latifa."I have found that he continues to maintain a regime whereby both of these two young women are deprived of their liberty," the judge said in the ruling.In response, Sheikh Mohammed <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-dubai-court-sheikh/dubai-ruler-sheikh-mohammed-says-uk-court-ruling-was-one-sided-idUSKBN20S298">said</a>: "As a head of government, I was not able to participate in the court's fact-finding process. This has resulted in the release of a 'fact-finding' judgment which inevitably only tells one side of the story."Following the ruling, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/queen-shuns-dubai-ruler-sheikh-mohammed-hwhvtd8fz">The Times of London reported</a> that the Queen planned to distance herself from the Sheikh.The abduction of Latifa was not the first time that the Sheikh has been accused of mistreating his children. In 2000, Sheikha Shamsa, Latifa's sister, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/dec/15/jamiewilson.stuartmillar">fled her family's English country estate in a Range Rover</a> when she was 18.She was caught and sent to Dubai.

The Queen accepted several horses from the ruler of Dubai after he was accused of kidnapping his daughter

<ul class="summary-list"><li>After two years of near silence, new videos of <keyword id="7105858" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Princess-Latifa">Princess Latifa</keyword> of <keyword id="6354539" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dubai">Dubai</keyword> have emerged.</li><li>The princess claims she's being kept against her will in a "villa prison" in Dubai.</li><li>Latifa tried to escape in 2018, but was captured by Indian commandos and returned to Dubai.</li></ul>Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, the daughter of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, says she's being held "hostage" by her family and fears for her life.In a newly-released series of videos recorded in secret over <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56075528">seven months</a> and shared with BBC Panorama, the princess said that her family has held her against her will in a "villa prison" under constant police surveillance. Latifa first tried to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/princess-sheikha-latifa-planed-7-year-escape-from-uae-dubai-report-2018-12">escape Dubai</a> in 2018. She and her friend Tiina Jauhiainen, a Finnish capoeria instructor, fled over the <keyword id="6354870" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="United-Arab-Emirates">United Arab Emirates</keyword> border into Oman, and attempted to sail a small inflatable boat into international waters.But her plan was thwarted when a group of Indian commandos overtook the vessel and held her at gunpoint. She was sent back to Dubai and held in solitary confinement.Latifa had previously tried to leave Dubai in 2002, when she was 18, in an attempt to help her missing sister <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/05/kidnapping-case-what-happened-to-sheikh-mohammeds-daughters">Shamsa</a>. Shamsa had been living in London but was kidnapped off the street in 2000, by men who were believed to be working for her father. Latifa was caught, though, and sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison.In a video made before her attempted escape in 2018, Latifa said her father was "the most evil person I've ever met in my life. He's pure evil. There is nothing good in him." Your Website Title Now, she says, she's guarded by seven police and not permitted to go beyond the walls of the villa. "Every day, I'm worried about my safety in my life. I don't really know if I'm going to survive this situation," Latifa said, according to a transcript provided by the British human rights lawyer David Haigh, who leads the <a href="https://freelatifa.com/">campaign to free her</a>.Haigh told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/world/middleeast/sheikha-latifa-video-dubai.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur=cur">The New York Times</a> the videos came to him via Jauhiainen, who said the slow trickle of videos from the princess had dried up toward the end of 2020, prompting her to want to release them.A year after Latifa's failed escape, one of Sheikh Mohammed's wives, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/princess-haya-hires-baroness-shackelton-divorce-emir-dubai-2019-7">Princess Haya of Jordan</a>, fled to London and began a custody battle with the sheikh over the couple's two children. In addition to serving as the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed is also the vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.He is one of the richest men in the world and occasionally socializes with the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56075528">British royal family</a>, but has received low marks for the <a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/united-arab-emirates">country's human rights record</a>. Messages to the government of Dubai and to David Haigh were not immediately returned.

A Dubai princess says she's being held hostage by her family following an attempted escape

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Two of Dubai's princesses tried to flee the country, seeking freedom from their controlling father.</li><li>They were both tranquilized and detained, according to sources and their own writings cited by <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/08/the-fugitive-princesses-of-dubai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New Yorker.</a></li></ul>Dubai princesses who tried to escape the country were tranquilized and imprisoned for long periods after they were caught, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/08/the-fugitive-princesses-of-dubai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to a new report from The New Yorker.</a>The report detailed the escape attempts of two daughters of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum: Princesses Latifa and Shamsa. The report was based on interviews with people involved and looked at the communications of Latifa before and after her multiple escape attempts.Shamsa tried to escape her family while they were staying at her father's estate the UK in 2000, but she was caught by Emirati men, brought back to the estate and returned to Dubai, the report said. She continued her efforts to flee when she was back in Dubai, seeking the help of UK authorities.When the UK media reported the case, Shamsa lost any outside contact and was put under heavy sedation, the report said.She was later imprisoned, the report said, and Latifa wrote that Shamsa came back from prison as "only a shell of her former self, with all the will power tortured out of her."She said her sister was left "like a zombie" after she was given tranquilizers and antidepressants.Shamsa tried to kill herself three times while in prison, including by trying to set fire to her own cell, the report said.Latifa said that when her sister first came back from prison she was so used to the dark that she couldn't properly open her eyes and had to be led around by hand.Latifa later wrote to one of her helpers, saying of Shamsa that "They give her sedatives as well as psychiatric drugs every single day."Shamsa has not been seen in public since her escape attempt, a span of more than 20 years.Latifa also made multiple attempts to leave the country, and wrote that freedom was "something worth dying for."The New Yorker detailed an attempt she made in 2002, when she crept out of her mother's house at 16, in the first time she was outside alone in her life.She was caught in her attempt to travel to neighboring Oman, taken home, and beaten, the report said.She was then brought to a desert prison, and beaten for five hours, according to her writings cited by The New Yorker. She was beaten again, and ultimately kept in prison for 13 months.She was brought home in July 2003, where, after a week, she exploded with rage and demanded to see Shamsa, she wrote.Latifa said she was then tranquilized and locked up for two more years.Latifa also said she was tranquilized during her escape attempt in 2018, when she was taken from a ship that she was trying to use to flee. She said she was returned home by helicopter and then a private jet.She wrote that when she was detained after being caught that she was given tranquilizers three times — the third after the first two doses appeared to have no effect.She wrote: "I want them to be embarrassed that it took the navy, several warships, armed commandos, 3 tranquilizer injections and an hour long struggle to put an unarmed pint-sized woman on a jet."Latifa has been seen in public a few times since, saying in statements that she is now independent, and wants privacy.The people who tried to help her escape told The New Yorker that they worried she is under duress. The New Yorker noted that she wrote before her 2018 escape attempt that "There will never be a conclusion where 'Latifa is happily with her UAE family' never."The wife of the Dubai leader's brother, Sheikha Bouchra bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, was also tranquilized, the report said.Her son said that she was kidnapped onto her husband's private jet at the UK's Farnborough Airport in 2000, though UK police said that the situation was just a misunderstanding between family members, The New Yorker reported.A source close to the Dubai royal family told The New Yorker: "They made her house prisoner, and they would just keep drugging her with tranquilizers to say that she's crazy."Dubai denies kidnapping or mistreating any of the women.A UK court adjudicating the divorce of Sheikh Mohammed from his wife <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-dubai-court-idUKKBN20S23C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> in 2021 that he kidnapped his two daughters and forcibly returned them to Dubai.

Dubai princesses who tried to escape their controlling father were tranquilized after they were caught, report says

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Princess Haya, the wife of Dubai Emir Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum, has fled, reportedly stricken by new chilling details about the fate of a runaway princess captured last year.&#xa0;</li><li>The princess is hiding out at her Kensington Palace Gardens townhouse in London, and is beginning divorce proceedings, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48843168">the BBC reported.&#xa0;</a></li><li>In February 2018, Princess Latifa, one of al-Maktoum's 23 daughters fled to India by yacht, but was caught by Emirati commandos are returned. She has not been heard from since.&#xa0;</li><li><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48843168">According to the BBC,</a> Princess Haya learnt "disturbing facts" about Princess Latifa's capture, and decided to flee to London, bringing her two children with her.&#xa0;</li><li><a href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul>The wife of Dubai Emir Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum has fled the country and is hiding in London, reportedly driven away by chilling details about the <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-sheikha-latifa-planed-7-year-escape-from-uae-dubai-report-2018-12">capture of a princess who tried to flee in 2018</a>.Princess Haya bint al-Hussein fled to her $107 million town house in Kensington Palace Gardens in mid-June. She is now bringing a case for divorce against her husband, the vice president of the United Arab Emirates, sources close to the princess <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48843168">told the BBC.</a>&#xa0;She has brought her son Zayed, aged 7, and daughter Al Jalila, aged 11, to London with her, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ruler-of-dubai-condemns-his-runaway-wife-princess-haya-on-instagramin-a-poem">the Daily Beast reported.</a>That the princess had escaped the royal household was first alleged by senior Jordanian journalist Osama Fawzi <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jqVcBbi61A">on his YouTube channel</a> on June 22.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>A spokesman for the UAE government told Business Insider: "The UAE government does not intend to comment on allegations about individuals' private lives."Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sheikh-mohammed-bin-rashid-al-maktoum-helps-cornish-village-buy-church-2017-6?r=US&amp;IR=T">This was the email that convinced the billionaire Emir of Dubai to rescue a community centre in a rural British village</a>According to the BBC, Princess Haya, the daughter of King Hussein of Jordan, fled after learning details about the disappearance of one of her husband's 23 daughters last year.Princess Latifa reportedly spent seven years planning her escape from Dubai, <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-sheikha-latifa-planed-7-year-escape-from-uae-dubai-report-2018-12">enlisting the help of a former French spy, her Finnish martial arts teacher, and an escape boat flying a US flag</a>&#xa0;to deter pursuers.The princess, aged 32 at the time, got within touching distance of Goa, 1,200 miles away on India's west coast, but was <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bshk6s">chased down by Emirati commandos and returned to Dubai in March 2018</a>.She has not been heard from since, with activists fearing she has been jailed indefinitely.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dubai-gender-balance-award-2018-winners-are-all-men-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">Dubai held a 'gender balance' awards, and every single winner is a man</a>In December 2018, the Emirati embassy in London <a href="https://twitter.com/UAEEmbassyUK/status/1070702035971043328">assured well wishers in a statement</a> that Princess Latifa was alive, and "safe in Dubai."Before she fled Princess Latifa made a video detailing alleged abuse and trauma at the hands of her 69-year-old father. She entrusted the tape to her lawyer, who was instructed to release it if her escape attempt went wrong,Radha Stirling, the CEO of Detained in Dubai, an advocacy group campaigning for Princess Latifa's cause, <a href="http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/stirling-och-partners/pressreleases/radha-stirling-statement-on-asylum-bid-of-princess-haya-2892873">said in a statement on Monday</a>:"Princess Haya has every reason to fear the consequences if she were to be sent back to Dubai. She surely knows, as Latifa knew, that asylum provides her the only safe route out of the royal palace.""If she was abused, she could not go to the police; if she wanted a divorce, she could not go to the courts."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sheikh-mohammed-bin-rashid-al-maktoum-orders-shake-up-of-city-management-2016-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">Dubai's ruler sacked 9 senior officials because they weren't at work at 7:30 in the morning</a>Sheik al-Maktoum is well known as an amateur poet, and released a mysterious poem this week which alluded to his wife's escape.A line <a href="https://sheikhmohammed.ae/en-us/Poetry">in "Affection in Your Eyes" reads</a>: "We have an ailment that no medicine can cure, No experts in herbs can remedy this."Another of the Sheik 's daughters, Sheikha Shamsa, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/dec/15/jamiewilson.stuartmillar">fled the family's English country estate in a Range Rover in 2000</a> when she was 18.She was caught, and sent to Dubai.<div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-border-facilities-concentration-camps-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cages-2019-6">Why the US border facilities are 'concentration camps,' according to historians</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

The wife of the Emir of Dubai has run away to London, reportedly after learning disturbing details about a failed escape attempt by another princess

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A UK judge ordered Sheikh Mohammed of <keyword id="6354539" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dubai" source="Orion">Dubai</keyword> to pay a $679 million divorce settlement to his ex-wife.</li><li>Princess Haya had filed for divorce in London, known as "the divorce capital of the world."</li></ul>When a British judge last year <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-haya-wins-734m-settlement-divorce-sheikh-mohammed-flee-2021-12">ordered Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum</a>, the emir of Dubai, to pay a £554 million ($679 million) divorce settlement to his former wife, Princess Haya, it was believed to be the largest ever divorce settlement secured in the UK. It also reaffirmed London's status as the de facto "divorce capital of the world," at least for the rich and famous.The UK court system is indeed the go-to destination for wives of the super-wealthy looking to divorce, mainly due to a legal tradition which is more favorable than most to the financially weaker party. Multiple spouses have secured multi-million pound payouts — sometime amounting to 50% of their husband's assets — by taking advantage of the system which affords judges a huge amount of discretion. <div type="image" title="Queen Elizabeth II (R) and Princess Haya in Windsor, Berkshire." height="1000" width="2000" msid="88437908" hostid="261"></div>This is a result of the a landmark judgment in 2000 where the concept of the "equal sharing" of assets became the norm. The often-cited case — "<a href="https://www.stowefamilylaw.co.uk/blog/2009/12/29/white-v-white/">White v White</a>" — concerns Martin White and Pamela White, farmers from Somerset who filed for divorce in 1994.After years of wrangling, the court found that Mrs. White was entitled to 40% of the couple's £4.6 million ($5.6 million) assets, even though most of them were in Mr. White's name.While the couple were not super-rich, the precedent they set has had huge ramifications.In the case of the sheikh, believed to be a multi-billionaire, British Justice Philip Moor ruled in November 2021 that he must recompense his ex-wife Haya for her possessions, including: £13.6 million ($16.6 million) for Haya's jewelry; £1 million ($1.2 million) for haute-couture clothing; £1 million ($1.2 million) for cars; and £5 million ($6.1 million) for racehorses.Haya had sued for divorce and custody of her two children <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/princess-haya-dubai-flees-husband-sheik-al-maktoum-2019-7?r=US&amp;IR=T">after escaping</a> to the UK in 2019.As Mark Harper, a divorce lawyer at Hughes Fowler Carruthers, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2015/feb/24/divorce-rich-husband-london-english-law">told The Guardian in 2015</a>: "If you're the person with the money then most people will move heaven and earth to avoid a divorce in England because the law is much more generous to, typically, the wife, the person without the money."<div type="image" title="uk high court royal courts of justice" height="642" width="1285" msid="88437910" hostid="261"></div>London has been the scene of some of the financial elite's messiest and most expensive divorces.In 2014, the British investor <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/executive-pay-chris-hohn-pays-himself-270-million-2017-12?r=US&amp;IR=T">Sir Christopher Hohn</a> was told to pay £337 million — nearly half of his £700 million fortune — to his American wife, Jamie Cooper-Hohn.Even though Hohn earned the money himself, the court ruled that his business was conducted in "partnership" with his wife, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11258436/Sir-Chris-Hohns-wife-awarded-337-million-in-divorce-cash-fight.html">The Daily Telegraph reported</a>.In 2017, the Russian oligarch <a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-divorce-akhmedov/ex-wife-of-russian-billionaire-secures-first-sliver-of-572-mln-divorce-bill-idUKKBN1OC2NS">Farkhad Akhmedov was told to surrender £453 million</a> — about 40% of his fortune — to his wife Tatiana. And in an <a href="https://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed115866">anonymous 2013 divorce case known as "M v M,"</a> a judge declared that 50% of a Russian man's £107 million fortune should go to his Russian ex-wife, who had filed for divorce in London. Ayesha Vardag, a divorce lawyer, told The Guardian that the UK is a fantastic jurisdiction for wives seeking divorce.She spoke to the newspaper after representing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/06/laura-ashley-boss-to-pay-ex-wife-divorce-settlement-of-64m">Pauline Chai, a Malaysian model, in her divorce from the fashion tycoon Khoo Kay Pen</a>, a case in which Chai won £64 million.Vardag said: "The principle that there is no discrimination between breadwinner and homemaker is the cornerstone of why the English jurisdiction is seen as a particularly fair one for the financially weaker spouse."Lawyers for Khoo <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2013/08/22/divorce-tourism-london-is-still-the-top-destination/#2f7c3107515c">told the court</a> that his case had enhanced "the ill-gotten reputation of this country for being the divorce capital of the world."Vardag, one of London's most revered divorce lawyers, <a href="https://time.com/5037316/britain-divorce-london-capital-ayesha-vardag/">told Time magazine</a> in 2018 that the reason so many wives have a legal argument for pursuing divorce in England is that London property is a prized asset for the super-rich.This means the couple has assets over which a UK court can exert authority.The UK court system is also favorable for the weaker party as longstanding pre-marriage assets — <a href="https://www.ramsdens.co.uk/blog/sharing-non-matrimonial-assets-rare-white-leopard">like inheritance or property bought before the wedding</a> — is treated the same way as assets gained after marriage. <a href="https://www.divorcenet.com/states/nationwide/property_division_by_state">This is not the case in many US states.</a>Haya and Mohammed separated in 2019 after he learned she was having affair with her British bodyguard, the court heard. She fled to the UK that year with her children after learning he was accused of imprisoning one of his other children, <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-latifa-escape-dubai-friend-interview-2019-7">Princess Latifa</a>, because she tried to escape.

How London became the divorce capital of the world for the mega-rich

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">GettyQueen Elizabeth II (R) and Princess Haya in Windsor, England.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Princess Haya has hired a lawyer to British royalty to represent her in her divorce from husband the Emir and Sheik of Dubai, a source tells Business Insider.</li><li>Princess Haya fled to London in June, reportedly after learning chilling details about the <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-sheikha-latifa-planed-7-year-escape-from-uae-dubai-report-2018-12">failed escape of Princess Latifa</a>, one of Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum's 23 children.</li><li>She is now divorcing the Sheik, and has hired Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia, of law firm Payne Hicks Beach, to advocate for her. </li><li>Shackleton represented Prince Charles during his divorce from Princess Diana Spencer in 1996, and is now a solicitor to Princes William and Harry.</li><li>Lady Helen Ward, from the law firm Stewart's, will represent Sheik Mohammed, legal sources told Business Insider.</li><li><a href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit INSIDER'S homepage for more stories. </a></li></ul>Princess Haya of Jordan has enlisted the expertise of Baroness Shackleton, a lawyer frequently used by the British royal family, to litigate divorce proceedings against her husband, the Emir of Dubai, a colleague for the lawyer told Business Insider.Princess Haya fled to London this month. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48843168">According to the BBC</a>, she left after learning <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/princess-haya-dubai-flees-husband-sheik-al-maktoum-2019-7?r=US&amp;IR=T">worrying details</a> of the <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-sheikha-latifa-planed-7-year-escape-from-uae-dubai-report-2018-12">2018 disappearance of Princess Latifa</a>, one of husband Emir Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum's 23 children.She is now divorcing him at the High Court in London. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48843168">The BBC, citing sources close to Haya</a>, said she is "afraid for her life."David Haigh, a lawyer for Latifa, told Business Insider that Haya has enlisted Shackleton to handle the case. She is currently a solicitor to Princes Harry and William, and has substantial experience of high-stakes divorce cases.The Times of London <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/royal-lawyer-baroness-shackleton-advising-on-dubai-split-5s3zcb0k7">also reported Shackleton's involvement</a>, citing unnamed "legal sources."Former clients include Prince Charles, in his 1996 divorce of Princess Diana, and Paul McCartney in his 2008 divorce of Heather Mills.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">ReutersJordanian Princess Haya bint al-Hussein (L) and husband Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum at Royal Ascot, England.</div></div></div>Shackleton has yet to respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.A source close to Sheik Mohammed told Business Insider that divorce lawyer Lady Helen Ward, of the firm Stewart's, is to represent the Sheik during legal proceedings.The case will be heard by Justice Moor at the High Court, which sits at London's Royal Courts of Justice. Hearings are scheduled for July 30 and July 31.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">PHBBaroness Shackleton.</div></div></div>According to a Wednesday report by <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7209203/Dubai-rulers-wife-Princess-Haya-planned-escape-husband-LIED-imprisoning-elder-daughter.html">MailOnline</a>, citing sources close to Haya, the prompt for her departure from Dubai was finding out that Latifa tried to run away.The outlet said that Sheik Mohammed had told Haya that Latifa was kidnapped as part of an extortion attempt, rather than fleeing of her own free will.A BBC documentary last year detailed <a href="https://www.insider.com/princess-sheikha-latifa-planed-7-year-escape-from-uae-dubai-report-2018-12">how Latifa spent seven years</a> planning the escape.Read more:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dubai-gender-balance-award-2018-winners-are-all-men-2019-1?r=US&amp;IR=T"> Dubai held a 'gender balance' awards, and every single winner is a man</a>The documentary details how Emirati commandos caught up with Princess Haya just off the coast of Goa, India, in April, a fortnight after she fled.She was returned to Dubai, and has not been heard from in public since. In December, the Emirati Embassy in London <a href="https://twitter.com/UAEEmbassyUK/status/1070702035971043328">said in a statement</a> that she was alive and "safe in Dubai."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">United Arab Emirates Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation via APIn this Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018 photo, released on Monday, Dec. 24, 2018, by the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, a daughter of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, left, meets Mary Robinson, a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president of Ireland, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.</div></div></div>Before her escape Princess Latifa <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN7OEFyNUkQ">made a video to be released if her escape failed</a>. In it Latifa said she was fleeing physical and psychological abuse at the hands of her father. Haigh, the lawyer for Latifa, told Business Insider that Haya's lawsuit will draw attention back onto the human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE.)"It's good news for Latifa, as it's thrown what happened to her into a court which isn't corrupt," he said. "That's good news for anyone who has been abused in the UAE."Shackleton represented Prince Charles during his split from Princess Diana Spencer in 1996, and represented Prince Andrew, Duke of York, during his divorce with Sarah, Duchess of York, the same year.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed United Arab Emirates' Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum attends the closing session of the GCC summit, in Sakhir, south of Manama, December 25, 2012.</div></div></div>She also represented Beatles star Paul McCartney as he divorced Heather Mills in 2008. Sheikh Mohammed, also an amateur poet, released a mysterious verse this week that appears to allude to Princess Haya's escape to London.A line <a href="https://sheikhmohammed.ae/en-us/Poetry">in "Affection in Your Eyes" reads</a>: "We have an ailment that no medicine can cure / No experts in herbs can remedy this."Princess Haya is also suing for custody of the children she shares with Sheik Mohammed: Zayed, 7, and daughter Al Jalila, 11, <a href="https://time.com/5619647/princess-haya-dubai-sheikh-mohammed-al-maktoum-protection-london/">Time magazine reported.</a>Another of his daughters, Sheikha Shamsa, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/dec/15/jamiewilson.stuartmillar">fled the family's English country estate in a Range Rover in 2000</a> when she was 18, her friends told The Guardian. She was caught and sent to Dubai. Radha Stirling, the CEO of Detained in Dubai, an advocacy group campaigning for Latifa, <a href="http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/stirling-och-partners/pressreleases/radha-stirling-statement-on-asylum-bid-of-princess-haya-2892873">said in a statement on Monday</a>: "Princess Haya has every reason to fear the consequences if she were to be sent back to Dubai. She surely knows, as Latifa knew, that asylum provides her the only safe route out of the royal palace."Stirling added: "If she was abused, she could not go to the police; if she wanted a divorce, she could not go to the courts."The Emirati embassy in London told Business Insider: "This is a private family matter and not one which the UAE government would involve itself in or comment on." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-border-facilities-concentration-camps-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cages-2019-6">Why the US border facilities are 'concentration camps,' according to historians</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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