What usually comes to mind when referring to "exotic princesses"? Snow White? Or Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday?
The word "princess", for many girls, is a word for beauty, meaning beautiful and dignified, and seems to encompass many beautiful visions in life.
However, real life tells us that not all princesses in this world can maintain decency and nobility.
One
"Go to Dubai to pick up garbage", this is a joke that has become popular on the Internet in recent years, because Dubai is a country famous for being rich, so many netizens usually say such a sentence when expressing their yearning for wealth.
As the saying goes, the honey of Ru, the arsenic of The Other. Some people yearn for this rich place, and some people are desperate to try to escape from here.
At the end of 2021, in order to get rid of the Dubai royal family, Princess Haya of Dubai will not hesitate to take a pair of children to flee the United Kingdom, even if she may face the siege and interception of agents in her sleep, but Princess Haya is at all costs.
The end result is now known, with the intervention of her mother-in-law, the Jordanian Royal Family, the British finally divorced Princess Haya and the Dubai chief and received 5.54 pounds (about 4.68 billion yuan) as post-divorce alimony.
Compared with Princess Haya, who has a strong mother's backing, Princess Ratifa, who also wants to escape from the Royal Family of Dubai, can be called ill-fated, several escapes have been recovered, as a princess of a country, she actually lived a life of seclusion and seclusion, and even was once treated as a madman, which is completely unrelated to the "noble" and "elegant" in people's brains, but this is the real daily life of Princess Ratifa.
Why is the princess miserable? This has to start with the current sheikh of Dubai, Mohammed...
Dubai is an emirate that, together with the emirates of Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Fujairah, Ajman and um Al Quwain, forms the Uae — the full name united Arab Emirates.
These Islamic countries still practice "polygamy" to this day, as is mohammed, the sheikh of Dubai, who has a total of six marriages, and Princess Ratifa is one of his more than 30 children.
In this country, princesses are not as golden as people think. First of all, she is a woman, and this gender means that she is always inferior to male in the cognitive norms of this country, and exists as a vassal of men.
The BBC once did a documentary about the Princess of Dubai, and Bergen of the Human Rights Watch Institute said that in Dubai law, women are subordinate to their husbands, who have the right to judge and dispose of all their wives' actions, and if his wife is considered "wild" by his family, then he has the right to punish her and dispose of her until she is "normal".
In 1985, Ratifa was born in the Royal Family of Dubai, her mother was a commoner woman, said to be Algerian, never appeared in the outside world, there is also a saying that Princess Ratifa is actually an illegitimate daughter, before adulthood has been raised by her aunt, Ratifa from childhood to adulthood thought that her aunt was her own mother, until her own mother came to recognize, she did not know her origins.
It is not known how Ratifa's childhood was, but it is clear that her life in the royal family was not good from her later words that she would rather die on a yacht than return to Dubai.
According to Ratifa, she lives under surveillance at all times, and if she wants to go out, she must be approved, as a woman, they must travel with a male guardian, and the father, as a country chief, obviously cannot have much time to accompany them out, in fact, Ratifa often does not see his father for several years.
Over time, the Dubai royal family is nothing less than a golden cage for Ratifa, and her life can be seen at a glance: she will always live in captivity as a pet, wait until she reaches the right age to be randomly designated to a man to complete the "personal handover", and then continue to survive as a vassal of another man.
The freedom that ordinary people have, Ratifa has not received for a day, as a princess of a country, she actually rarely even has to go out of her home, let alone travel anywhere.
In 2000, Ratifa's sister Samsa took the lead in putting her escape on the agenda, and as the first "Princess on The Run in Dubai", Samsha escaped from her residence to avoid the guards, but unfortunately, the news reached Muhammad's ears, and the enraged sheikh sent his own escort, asking them to bring Samsa back anyway.
Eventually, Princess Samsa was forcibly injected with tranquilizers by the four chieftains' guards and stuffed into the carriage to take back to the royal family.
Because of the precedent of the princess's escape, Muhammad confiscated all the passports of his daughters and sent more people to watch them.
Judging from the way Muhammad treated his daughters, he didn't look like he was raising daughters, but rather like keeping pets, keeping a group of larks that looked like gold and jade, just waiting for the right time to "hand them over".
Although her sister's escape failed, Ratifa was encouraged by her sister's actions, and she could no longer bear this place that imprisoned her freedom, and the idea of "escaping" burned in her blood every day.
When she learned that she had been promised by her father to a neighboring country an old enough to be her father's wife, she realized that she could not wait any longer.
Finally, when he was 17 years old, Ratifa practiced his escape.
Two
In fact, when Ratifa first tried to escape, she was not yet 17 years old. It was 2002, and Ratifa took advantage of his father's inattention and took a French spy on a long-distance cruise ship.
The spy is said to have written a book called Escape from Dubai, about how he escaped from Dubai in a small boat after failing his business.
Ratifa crossed the border between the UAE and Amman, but only stopped there, and like her sister, she was easily found by agents sent by her father and forcibly brought back.
If the "princess" has a bad life in Dubai, then the "princess who escaped and was caught" is hell.
Brought back, Ratifa was imprisoned by her father, and she was locked up in a residence surrounded by guards who were watching her, and the windows of her room were all crucified.
Seeing the sun and blowing the wind, the treatment that she once enjoyed, has now been all taken back, and she is like a pet in captivity in the palace, and Ratifa has nothing but a panting body that can prove that she is suffering from life.
Three years and four months, Ratifa's girlhood had survived in this cage, and when she saw the outside world again, she was already a big girl in her early twenties.
The lengthy captivity did not dampen Ratifa's determination to escape, but strengthened her will, and in 2010 she became close friends with Tinna, a Finnish fitness trainer who worked in Dubai, who decided to help her escape from Dubai.
Ratifa did not act rashly this time, she has been waiting for the right time, and even the following year, with the help of a fitness instructor, she successfully contacted a French businessman who promised to help them, and Latifa's confidence grew stronger and stronger, and her vision for the future became stronger and stronger.
On February 24, 2018, Latifa began her second escape, and after an early morning meeting with a fitness instructor, she fled to the high seas in an inflatable boat, a yacht prepared by a French businessman for the Indian coast.
As her ship sailed off the coast of the Indian Ocean, Ratifa thought she had managed to escape, but then, 5 large ships, 2 planes, and a helicopter blocked all their way, and in the next instant, more than a dozen agents appeared in front of her.
Faced with the agents who rushed to capture her, Ratifa begged him to let her go and not bring herself back, but it was obviously useless, and she suffered the same fate as her sister.
In the process, Ratifa kicked and punched the agent who came to capture her, and the other party screamed bitterly, but still had the strength to see her in the uniform and forced a tranquilizer.
This escape, Ratifa failed again, but in the failure, there were also many achievements. This achievement is that before escaping, Ratifa anticipated that she might fail again, so she recorded her encounters in recent years with her mobile phone as a video in advance.
In the video, Ratifa carefully recounts what happened to her during the three years and four months of captivity, in addition to being imprisoned, she was beaten, beaten continuously, even if there was no violent beating, she would be caught out of bed in the middle of the night, deprived of sleep, and even tortured to the point that she did not even have the strength to climb to the bathroom.
In addition, in the video, Latifa mentions her sister, who also has an escape experience.
The video was handed over in advance to a human rights organization that supported her escape, and the human rights organization that could not wait for the princess's freedom to publish the video a few days later, which instantly attracted the attention of the whole world, human rights organizations around the world were highly concerned about the safety of Princess Ratifa, media reports, interviews by reporters, accusations and doubts against the Dubai royal family were rampant for a while.
In response to outside concerns, the Dubai royal family initially adopted a non-reply attitude, but soon, under the pressure of public opinion, they replied that the two princesses had been living under the favor of their families and were very safe.
Such nonsense is obviously difficult to fool the people of the world.
After that, Mary Robinson, a former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, visited Dubai and asked to see Princess Ratifa.
It is interesting to note that Princess Ratifa was fooled in this meeting, along with Princess Haya, who became famous for her escape in 2021.
It turns out that Princess Haya has been trying to help Princess Ratifa and Princess Samsa out of trouble ever since she learned of their experiences, but her attitude quickly angers Mohammed, and a rift appears between the two, and Princess Haya is used in her efforts to rescue Princess Ratifa.
At that time, Princess Ratifa was told to meet with a foreign guest, and she was told that if she could behave normally, she would be given the opportunity to live outside for a few days, accompanied by Princess Haya.
However, the truth is that Princess Ratifa does not know Robinson's true identity, she is only told that the other party is a foreign guest, and Robinson is told that Princess Ratifa suffers from very severe bipolar disorder and cannot be stimulated, at the same time, Princess Haya really thinks that Princess Ratifa can be freed from now on.
Therefore, the three parties had lunch together under the unequal news, and Robinson did not mention the forbidden thing the whole time in order to ensure that he did not "stimulate" the princess, but only talked about the safety of vegetarian food.
It was not until Robinson was fooled away that Princess Ratifa's life returned to confinement, at this time, Princess Haya realized that the whole thing was not as simple as she thought, stimulated by this incident, Princess Haya also began to rethink the meaning of her life in Dubai, for various reasons, this is the way after Princess Haya.
Later, Princess Ratifa obtained a hard-won mobile phone through the "smuggling" of the people around her, and in her imprisoned house, there were everything that could not be locked, except for the toilet, so Princess Ratifa could only use her time in the toilet to secretly record her recent situation, and then find a way to pass it on to her close friends in batches.
After the "meeting lies", Robinson was also reprimanded by human rights organizations around the world, attacked as the "licking dog" of the Dubai government, and later Robinson apologized for this, and the BBC also made a documentary about the princess of Dubai, but this did not help The current situation of Ratifa.
She still lives in seclusion, and is likely to live forever, and perhaps, after she compromises, under her father's arrangement, marries a man who does not match her age and hobbies, and will henceforth become a vassal of another person.
Princess Salama, who was once known as the "most beautiful princess in the world", married an Arab nobleman who was more than ten years older than herself under her father's arrangement, and since then chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea.
On the surface, they are princesses of gold and jade, but in fact, their lives are like Zhang Ailing's description of "gorgeous robes crawling with lice", there is no freedom to speak of, and only obedience is left in life.
epilogue:
After seeing Princess Ratifa's experience, it is not difficult to understand Princess Haya's decision to flee. It is rumored that Mohammed had wanted him and Princess Haya's 11-year-old daughter to marry Saudi Crown Prince Salman, a brutal ascendant with a discredited reputation for sending agents to assassinate journalists, nearly twenty years older than Princess Haya's daughter.
In this way, Princess Haya is still lucky in the end, after all, she has the Jordanian royal family as a strong backing, not to mention that she successfully escaped to Britain, however, the helpless Princess Ratifa, when she will be able to escape, it is unknown.
Perhaps, that day will not be too long, after all, the drama of life is sometimes beyond people's imagination.
Author: Black Cat