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Teen letter lays bare anguish of Shamsa Al Maktoum, the Dubai princess who vanished into thin air
A previously unseen note from the emir’s daughter gives a fresh insight into her attempt to escape his suffocating rule
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The runaway princess: London court case could shed light on a power struggle in the Middle East
A London court case could shed light on a power struggle in the Middle East … and reveal why the wife of Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed is seeking asylum in the UK
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Sheikh Maktoum’s divorce to expose secrets of UAE ruler’s house, says insider
An Insider in Dubai’s royal family has broken his silence to tell how Sheikh Maktoum’s multi-million pound divorce battle with his estranged wife Princess Haya in the British courts will expose secrets of the UAE ruler.
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‘I Won’t Rest Until She’s Free’
Tiina Jauhiainen tried to help her best friend, Emirati Princess Latifa, escape from her stifling existence as the daughter of Dubai’s ruler. But in a dramatic intervention at sea, the princess was captured and returned to the UAE. A year later, Tiina is campaigning for her freedom, reports Radhika Sanghani
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It doesn’t help to be a princess in the Gulf
Saudi Arabia, a regional ally of the UAE, is infamous for the treatment of its female population.
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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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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
With the unexplained death of the crown prince of Sharjah and the impending divorce of Dubai’s ruling couple, the secretive Arab dynasties are in the spotlight