Where there is a court, there is a fight, as was the case in ancient times, and it is the same in modern times.
Although there are very few modern countries that have inherited the monarchy, there are many tricks in the palace fights of various countries, such as the "rebellion" of The British MeganHari, the absurdity of the Thai king, the restlessness of the harem, the rebellion of Japanese princesses and the divorce of Lao Lai...
In addition to these are more familiar to everyone, in fact, there is another country's court battles that are also sensational in the world, that is, the Royal Family of Dubai.
Under the extreme rule of Sheikh Mohammed, the current sheikh of Dubai, his hordes of wives and concubines, daughters and princesses and other royal women seem to be rich and wealthy, but in fact they are just living in a cage made of gold, and once they try to escape control, they will be doomed.
Three years ago, Sheikh Mohammed's sixth and youngest wife, Princess Haya, fled to Britain with her two young children.
How could her controlling chief husband tolerate her "disobedience," and the two sides began a long and costly war in the family court in London.
Three years on, the drama of the Dubai court battle is not over, or the horrific control of Sheikh Muhammad over his ex-wife and children is far from over.
He proved to Princess Haya with facts that no matter where she fled, she could not turn over the palm of his hand.
On the left is Haya and on the right is the chief
The real "she escapes, he chases" is not the Mary Sue's domineering president novel, but a life-threatening reality horror story.
Recently, the High Court of London found that the Sheikh of Dubai had ordered the eavesdropping of the mobile phones of his ex-wife Princess Haya and her lawyers, as well as the acquisition of a mansion near his ex-wife to monitor snooping!
The judge ruled that Princess Haya had good reason to fear that her ex-husband would snatch the child away, after all, he had done the same thing many times...
In June 2000, Sheikh Mohammed's daughter, Princess Shamsa, 19, was on holiday with her family in England and found an opportunity to escape the suffocation of Dubai, staying with friends for a few weeks in her London apartment.
But how did a young girl who had just come of age fight over a powerful ruler, and one day afterward, she mysteriously disappeared directly from the streets of Cambridge.
That was the last time friends saw her, and for more than 20 years she never appeared in the public eye, and no one knew how she was, not even whether she was alive or dead.
In 2002, Shamsa's 16-year-old sister, Princess Ratifa, also planned an escape, but was captured at the border.
For more than three years thereafter, she was tortured to the fullest, without any preferential treatment for being a princess, and her ruler father wanted her to pay the price for "disobedience".
So she endured more than three years of solitary confinement, constant beatings, torture, and physical and mental damage.
In 2018, the 32-year-old Ratifa fled again, and before she escaped, she made a 39-minute video to let the truth about the abuse, imprisonment and beating of her and her sister by the authoritarian father, and the whole world was blown up by this shocking royal scandal!
Unfortunately, the truth could not help her escape, this time, she disappeared again, apparently arrested again, and was also not heard from for several years.
Both of them were the daughters of Sheikh Muhammad, and the third to escape was one of his wives, Princess Haya.
Princess Haya is the daughter of the former King of Jordan and the half-sister of the current King, she graduated from Oxford University in the United Kingdom, received a Western education, to put it bluntly, noble birth, strong financial resources and strength is the basis for Princess Haya to continue to fight with the ex-husband of the Dubai chief.
In 2004, Princess Haya married Sheikh Mohammed and became his sixth wife.
Here I would like to say that there are at least six official wives of the Dubai chief, and there are more informal ones, the real three palaces and six courtyards.
Princess Haya was more dignified among them, and she was well adapted to the life of this political marriage, often attending various events with Sheikh Muhammad.
In more than ten years of marriage, he and the chief had a son, a daughter and two children.
But as the children grew older, the relationship between the two gradually became tense, and finally princess Haya felt that her life was threatened, and the chief unilaterally divorced her.
What went wrong that would make two people fall apart so decisively?
There are two main reasons, the first of which is that Princess Haya cheated on her personal bodyguard around 2017!
Although the chief himself had countless wives, he could not tolerate his wife's cheating, and the logic was very simple, in his opinion, the wife was just his possession, a beautiful appendage, how could he betray the master?
I can three palaces and six courtyards, you can't "red mandarin duck belly pocket"!
Good guys, the painting style suddenly changed into the Dubai version of "The Biography of Zhen Huan"...
However, he was also wearing a green hat, and although the Chief of Dubai was also angry to explode, he did not vomit blood and coma, nor did he get angry enough to split his wife's five horses.
He just felt that he couldn't hang on to his face, wanted to teach her a lesson, and didn't really want to kill her mouth.
But coincidentally, Princess Haya discovered the big secret that the Dubai royal family tried to hide at this stall - the truth about the disappearance of the two princesses before.
The version she had always believed was that her husband had fooled her into saying that the princesses had been "rescued" and lived with the family in peace.
But the truth she discovered was far from "living in peace", and the princesses who were captured were imprisoned, beaten, and abused to the point of physical and mental damage.
In this case, it is difficult for her not to empathize with these tragic situations to herself and her young daughter.
And for the chief, it was nothing if a wife was unfaithful, but it was hard not to be alert when the unfaithful wife discovered his dirty secret.
The best way to keep a person from revealing secrets is to keep her from opening her mouth.
So the chief began to instruct his agents to launch a campaign of intimidation against Princess Haya, in order to make her afraid and then shut up.
Twice a gun was placed on her pillow.
A helicopter landed outside her home and threatened to transfer her to a remote desert prison.
When a collective ruler implies or even expresses dissatisfaction with a member, then the whole group begins to target that member.
So Haya began to feel the malice and exclusion from the whole extended family, the chief's long-term intimidation played a role, and Princess Haya was already like a bird of fright at that time, afraid of the day when the knife on her head fell and took her life.
She had to escape, and in April 2019, Princess Haya fled to the UK with her two children.
But Britain is not a safe house, and in the face of a powerful ruler who is friendly with Britain, the British authorities cannot stand up to protect the fugitive Princess Harvey, and the problem can only be solved in court as much as possible.
So the Chief and Princess Harvey embarked on what may be the most expensive custody dispute over child custody in British history.
Yes, their legal battle has nothing to do with divorce or finances, it revolves around their two children, and in 2019 Mohammed asked the children to return to Dubai, fighting the first battle between them in the High Court in London.
A series of hearings were held in private because the royal Mishnah scandal was something the chief tried so hard to hide.
But he was also less able to control the British courts, and after the lifting of reporting restrictions, a large number of shocking and terrifying details were exposed!
Princess Haya's numerous allegations against the sheikh, including kidnapping, imprisoning her two daughters, and threatening her ex-wife to fear her life were accepted by the judge.
Princess Haya won the battle, but Sheikh did not give up, and it was his style to eavesdrop, monitor, and approach threats everywhere.
After the first court battle, the second round of hearings was also held privately, but after the British media recently applied, the judge allowed the details of the case to be made public, and the darker and more shocking process was exposed.
In July 2020, Sheikh's agents hacked the cell phones of Princess Haya and her lawyers and staff with military-grade spyware.
In August, Princess Haya's lawyer received a reminder from two of her peers that you might have been eavesdropped.
Princess Haya and her lawyer
One of the little gossip to be inserted here is that one of the lawyers who sent a message to Princess Haya in time was called Cheri Blair.
She is currently working as a consultant for a secret Israeli company, the one that makes military-grade spyware, and it is because of her authority that she first discovered that Princess Haya had been eavesdropped.
Cheri Blair also has an identity, is the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the irony comes, and it is said that it was Tony Blair's then-government that stopped the criminal investigation into the disappearance of the daughter of the Dubai sheikh in the United Kingdom in 2000, leaving the truth buried for nearly 20 years.
This, of course, is the operation of the chief, who really does everything in order to be able to control these "escaped women".
Kidnappings with guns in the streets, injections of tranquilizers, use of financial power to interfere with investigations, military-level telephone eavesdropping...
Last December, the chief's agents even tried to buy property near Princess Haya's house.
The President of the Family Chamber of the High Court said,
"In this case, it only takes a moment to snatch a child from a garden or a country lane. It seems perfectly reasonable in my opinion to need to prevent the father (the chief) or his men from approaching the house of the mother (Princess Haya). ”
So the court immediately arranged to build a 100-meter exclusion zone around Haya's house, and set up a 1,000-foot no-fly zone above it to prevent the Sheikh from sending people to grab the children by helicopter.
On the left is the house that the chief wants to buy, and on the right is the current residence of Princess Haya
Sheikh's pressing forced Princess Haya to the point of suffocation, and even though she had escaped from Dubai, she was still being watched everywhere, but she could not retreat because she had to protect her children, especially her own daughter.
If the sheikh had been allowed to snatch the child, the son might not have been there, the daughter, who is only 13 years old this year, is likely to be forced to make a marriage contract, and worse, the fate of the two runaway princesses is a lesson for her daughter.
When she fled to the UK in 2019, she applied for a compulsory marriage protection order and a no harassment order related to their daughter. But apparently, that's not enough.
The two princesses who escaped, Shamsa, have disappeared since she was kidnapped in 2000.
As for Latifa, it wasn't until May of this year that a photo of her and two other women appeared on public social platforms that people knew she wasn't dead.
Since then, there has been a lot of evidence that Ratifa has appeared in public places in Dubai, Spain, Iceland and other places, and she seems to be free, but she should not have escaped surveillance, because her mobile phone has also been tracked.
The "freedom" that was bought for 20 years and two bloody escapes was clearly not the future that Princess Haya envisioned for her young daughter.
But what she had to contend with was an authoritarian ruler, who did all the bad deeds of Sheikh Muhammad without being punished accordingly, especially since he was a friend of the Queen of England, and the UAE and The United Kingdom worked closely together, and any verdict against the chief was at best humiliating to him, but it would never prevent him from doing anything he wanted to do.
Fortunately, Princess Haya herself is also strong, hoping that she can escape the nightmare and protect her daughter from repeating the nightmares of other princesses in Dubai...