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‘Never seen again’: Dubai princess a ‘prisoner’ 20 years after failed attempt to flee
Sheikha Shamsa was 19 when she took a car and fled, but just weeks later she was found and sent back to Dubai — never to be seen again.

Daniela Elser
news.com.auJULY 6, 20195:14PM
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Shamsa al- Maktoum. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

However, she is far from the only member of her family to have made a dramatic attempt to flee their billionaire patriarch and life in Dubai.

In 2018, her half-sister Sheikha Latifa made her second attempt to flee Dubai. Then this week it was revealed the girls’ stepmother Princess Haya had fled to Londonwith her two children with the Sheik allegedly because of the treatment her stepdaughter Latifa was subjected to following her escape attempt, The Sun reports.

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Shamsa’s stepmother Princess Haya this week became the latest member of the Dubai royal family to flee.Source:Supplied

WHO IS SHEIKHA SHAMSA AL-MAKTOUM?

Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum is the billionaire leader of the UAE and is believed to have 23 children — 12 from his first and most senior wife, Sheikha Hind, four with subsidiary wives and two with Princess Haya. It is believed Shamsa’s mother was one of Sheik Mohammed’s subsidiary wives.

WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE FOR THE ROYAL KIDS IN 2000?

Sheik Mohammed is one of the biggest racehorse owners in the world and for years owned the $134 million Longcross estate in Surrey. Every summer, Sheik Mohammed and his large family and enormous retinue would descend on the estate en masse.

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Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum at this year’s Royal Ascot carnival. Picture: Chris Jackson/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

Security around the children was exhaustive. Former employees told the Guardianbodyguards and a senior member of estate staff accompanied the kids (who all had code names) every time they left the estate.

Protection officers would track where they went and stay in constant radio contact. There were regular security drills. Entry to the estate was via a guardhouse and electronic gates and there were security cameras covering the vast property.

When Shamsa would go out riding a horse, a bodyguard would be forced to follow along on a mountain bike.

SHAMSA’S DRAMATIC ESCAPE

The first clue the then 19-year-old was missing was when a black Range Rover was found abandoned by the estate’s gates in July 2000, according to the Guardian. What followed was “chaos” according to the same report, with Sheik Mohammed arriving via helicopter from his other UK country property to manage the search for the missing teen, with staff using both horses and cars to scour the area for Sheikha Shamsa. The only thing that was found was her mobile phone, which it was believed she had dumped on purpose.

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Sheikha Shamsa loved animals. Picture: SuppliedSource:News Limited

WHY DID SHE FLEE?

The short answer: freedom.

At the time news of Sheikha Shamsa’s escape broke, a friend said: “She just didn’t like authority, she didn’t want to be told what to do … She just seemed to have a Western girl’s head on her shoulders and a desire for a bit of freedom and perhaps was prepared to pursue that a bit more than the other children or girls, who all knew their place in the family.”

THE CAMBRIDGE KIDNAPPING

A woman claiming to be Sheikha Shamsa and her sister Sheikha Latifa have both alleged that one month after the escape, Sheik Mohammed’s security staff tracked the runaway royal down in August 2000 and forced her out of the country via private jet, ultimately home to Dubai.

In 2001, a woman who identified herself as Sheikha Shamsa contacted a UK solicitor and revealed details of the incident. In 2018, Sheikha Latifa posted a video in which she said of Shamsa’s ordeal: “Basically, a bunch of guys in a car drove up and grabbed her, kicking and screaming, threw her in the car.”

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Shamsa’s sister Sheikha Latifa posted a bizarre video after she tried to escape last year. Picture: YouTubeSource:YouTube

WHY DIDN’T THE POLICE DO ANYTHING?

They tried. After the woman identifying herself as Sheikha Shamsa got a message to that lawyer in 2001, he contacted police. They, in turn, started to attempt to investigate what had happened.

DCI David Beck from Cambridgeshire Police was put on the case, but his request to enter Dubai to speak to Sheikha Shamsa was denied. The Mirror has reported evidence found by DCI Beck “suggested that there may be some substance to what was being alleged”.

In December 2001, British ministers claimed Sheik Mohammed had “tried to intervene with the British government over the ongoing police investigation into the allegations”.

SO WHERE IS SHEIKHA SHAMSA NOW?

It is believed she is in Dubai. The BBC has reported Sheikha Shamsa has contacted British journalists in recent years about her situation.

Sheikha Latifa revealed in a video last year when she first saw her sister after she had been back in the UAE for eight years: “She was in a very bad state. She had to be led around by her hand. She wouldn’t open her eyes, I don’t know why. They would make her eat, then give her a bunch of pills to control her basically. The pills made her like a zombie.

“Right now she’s surrounded by nurses. They are in her room when she sleeps, they take notes of when she wakes up, when she sleeps, when she eats, what she eats, what she says, the conversation she says. These drugs control her mind, I don’t know what they are.

“And so her life is totally controlled.”

Daniela Elser is a royal expert and freelance writer with 20 years’ experience who has written for some of Australia’s best print and digital media brands.
 






¡ Qué curioso! Ellos que tanto hablan del honor, etc... y, sin embargo, la forma en que el emir toca y abraza a su hija es bastante inapropiada. Un poco excesiva, posesiva... como si se tratara de su pareja, más que de una hija. A nuestros ojos es un comportamiento algo extraño. Ignoro si es lo habitual en su cultura.



 
No veo nada inapropiado en las imágenes. Solo me llama la atención, que en todos los videos, salvo en uno, el emir lleva la corbata del mismo tono del vestido de Jallila. Haya feliz de conocerse de que sus hijos reciban la atención especial del papá.
Me pareció forzado el video donde Hamdam levanta a Zayed en la copa de Dubai.
 
Definitivamente Al Jalila y esas ropitas nunca se las ví a Sama ni a Salama. Moh la tenía consentida. Dicen, no puedo mencionar la web por reglas del foro, que hay un vídeo donde Moh va a recoger a Jalila del cole y esta corre a su encuentro feliz. No sé si ustedes sabrán.
Moh tiene hijos favoritos, obviamente, a mí Mahra me parece afortunada porque se crió con su madre y entre Grecia y UK además que la vi vestida hasta sexy. No sé de qué qué dependerá de que algunos parecen tener más libertad que otros, pero con lo que pasó supongo que Moh no va a conceder nada más a nadie.
 
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