When it comes to Dubai, many people may think of the scene of gold everywhere. After the popularity of the "Dubai garbage pick-up" passage, the wealthy Arab country also attracted more attention. But everything that looks good to outsiders may also be another person's siege.
Princess Haya of Dubai is a case in point. After marrying into the Dubai royal family and giving birth to a son and a daughter for the king, she finally chose to flee.
In 2019, Princess Haya fled with her two children, first to Germany to seek asylum, and then to the United Kingdom. After gaining a foothold, he filed for divorce from the King of Dubai, and the two fought a long lawsuit for this. When she fled, she also took 31 million pounds, which translates into 270 million yuan.
Wealth secured her and her children's future lives, but the greater support that enabled her to escape the Dubai royal family and settle in the UK came from her mother's family, the Jordanian royal family.
Free Jordanian Princess
Princess Haya has a beautiful legendary experience, but it is not the story of "ugly ducklings turning into white swans". Before marrying into the Dubai royal family and becoming Princess Haya, she was the favored princess of the Jordanian royal family and had a noble status.
Haya was born to the third wife of the King of Dubai, but this did not affect her position in the royal family. Because of the unexpected death of her mother in the air crash, the young Haya received more pampering.
Born into the royal family, Haya enjoys a lot of freedom, and the royal family does not restrain her in many ways.
Because of this, Haya became the freest princess in Jordan. As a woman, she can also learn equestrianism and football, and even represented her country at the Sydney Olympics.
At the Olympics, she also became the first Arab woman to serve as a flag bearer. In the Arab region, the status of women was not high, but the princess was given the same freedom as men.
The royal family also respected her decision when it came to marriage choices.
In 2004, Haya chose the person with whom he would spend his life, 55-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed of Dubai. She was only thirty years old at the time, but she was obsessed with this man who was in her twenties.
The other also has royal status, but the marriage is not a product of politics, haya and Muhammad after many encounters, and decided to enter the marriage.
But after 15 years of marriage, she suddenly realized that marrying into the Dubai royal family also meant that she had lost some of her right to choose.
The princess who fled
As a typical combination of old husband and young wife, after marriage, Haya did enjoy the favor of Crown Prince Muhammad.
In Dubai, women's status is difficult to guarantee, and even the princess is not allowed to show her face. Like Muhammad's cousin, she has not appeared for more than a decade after marrying into the royal family. Only because the princess had to abide by the rules, Muhammad never allowed her to come out to participate in the event.
Her new wife, Haya, was privileged to accompany the crown prince frequently to events without having to wear the traditional costumes of Arab women and wrap herself tightly from head to toe. It can be said that the freedom that Haya enjoyed before marriage was still continued after marriage.
It can be seen that after marrying into the Royal Family of Dubai, Muhammad did not have too many conservative requirements for the princess. In this regard, Haya has also said many times that she is lucky to marry the Crown Prince of Dubai and is grateful for her husband's respect for her.
But as her children grew older, Princess Haya finally realized that something was wrong.
After her marriage, Princess Haya gave birth to a son and a daughter, and was also clearly favored among the many children of the crown prince. But when Haya's daughter reached the age of eleven, Muhammad offered to marry her politically.
This notice made Haya completely unacceptable, and she personally fled the political marriage, let alone accept that her daughter would become a victim of politics.
An angry and sad Princess Haya argues with the Crown Prince, but she sadly finds that her husband ignores her opinion on the matter.
It was only at this moment that the princess realized that the rights and freedoms she enjoyed did not include making decisions about the marriage of her children.
But Haya, who was born free, could never accept the fact that her daughter had to be forced into marriage. After much persuasion to no avail, she thought of fleeing.
In 2019, after getting ready, Princess Haya fled the Dubai royal family with her two children and boarded a plane to Germany. But it wasn't until it landed in Germany that it was discovered that the country did not choose to protect them.
Forced to do so, Haya took her children to England.
This time, Haya and the child won asylum in Britain, as the Jordanian royal family also intervened.
Upon learning that his sister had fled to England with her child, the King of Jordan immediately appointed Haya as a staff member of the Jordanian Embassy in England, so that Haya had a legal status in Britain, and even the Royal Family of Dubai could not intervene.
The powerful maternal brother is also the reason why Haya dared to escape. Although she is married into the Royal Family of Dubai, her mother's family is also a royal family, and with the support of her brothers, once she can settle in the UK, there is nothing to worry about.
Once she had established herself in Britain and moved to a very safe place to live, Haya began to appoint lawyers to file a divorce with the Crown Prince of Dubai.
After the crown prince used her daughter as a political bargaining chip, Princess Haya was also completely disappointed and decided to end her marriage.
After receiving Haya's divorce notice, Muhammad was at first confident, seemingly believing that the fleeing princess would have no chance of winning. But this divorce lawsuit is very difficult, after all, the crown prince still has a "handle" in his hands.
While Haya was still in the Dubai royal family, she experienced the escape of two princesses, but was invariably captured by Muhammad.
In the divorce lawsuit, Muhammad was so indisputable that even throwing dirty water at Princess Haya would not help, and in the end he lost the company, and Haya and her children were truly free.
Under the oppression of women by the Royal Family of Dubai, there have been princesses and princesses who have tried to flee for many years, but the only one who succeeded in the operation was Princess Haya.
Her escape was to save her children, and she must have been fully prepared. After watching the many failed escapes of his predecessors, Haya summed up the experience and won hope for himself.
What's more, there is a powerful mother-in-law behind her. The members of the Jordanian royal family are very fond of Haya, and they will not sit idly by in the face of Haya's pleas for help. Haya's brother is the King of Jordan, and with such a maternal brother, he also has the confidence to confront the Royal Family of Dubai.
The 270 million she took away for freedom was enough to secure her and her children's future lives. The princess loves freedom and wisdom, and her escape is also a kind of self-redemption.
The Crown Prince of Dubai's cage, even if it was covered with gold, could not keep her after all.