Princess Hague has asked for the protection of British justice to prevent her daughter's forced marriage

Princess Haya, one of Dubai's Emir's wives, Mohammed Bin Rashed al-Maktum, has called for measures to protect British justice in order to prevent forced marriage from taking place. a minor girl.

The lawyers of Haya, 45, daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan and one of the 70-year-old emir's wives, asked the London court to seek protection, an order of non-communication against the emir and guardian of the children of the couple The Emir, who also holds the post of Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, asked for the children to return immediately to Dubai.

At the trial concerning his divorce, and more particularly about the future of his two children, the emir tries that the case be resolved in the emirate and not in London. But that did not succeed and the session continues. The first day, he also tried to prevent the media from entering the room, but without success. What I wanted to be a private affair has become a great soap opera that follows half of the world in which they come together power, money, violence and politics.

The public hearing revealed some of the intentions and concerns of Princess Haya, who fled Dubai last July with her children and lived in London. Later, the couple will fight for their inheritance.

After weeks hidden, the 45-year-old princess, sister of Jordan's king and the sixth wife of the emir, was seen for the first time on arrival at the courts of London, accompanied by her lawyer, Fiona Shackleton, who was previously responsible for the acts of violence. other major divorces like that of Prince Charles of England with Diana Spencer and that of Prince Andrew with Sarah Ferguson.

One of Haya's first queries was to ask the court that prevent your children from getting married in unions agreed by your husband. If the court agrees, the children of the marriage, Jalila, eleven, and Zayed, seven, will be prevented from returning to Dubai and staying with their mother. The emir has a total of 23 children of their different wives.

The princess would have left because "knew troubling facts "about the treatment of her husband's daughter, Princess Latifa, 33, who He tried to escape from Dubai. Haya escaped nine months after the March of Latifa. The young woman had, in a video, denounced the fact that she had escaped from her home and from her country because she had no freedom of movement and because some of her sisters and she – even had been victims of ill-treatment. His ship was intercepted while he was in international waters, near India, and was brought back to his home.

Latifa allegedly suffered unspeakable abuse on the part of Sheikh Mohammed and would have had no choice but to escape and Haya would have found himself in the same situation. Fortunately for her, she managed to escape, "said Radha Stirling, president of London-based organization Arrested in Dubai.

Stirling said Princess Haya "is both a victim and a witness". "We hope that she will remain safe and cooperate with international authorities to reveal the allegations of abuse committed behind the doors of the Dubai Royal Palace," he added.

The Emir of Dubai tries to discredit his wife with a supposed romance with his bodyguard, Russell Flowers, a 36-year-old British infantryman. According to this version, Haya would have fled to start a new life with this man who accompanies her these days in London.

According to some British media, this relationship It was an open secret among the security team of the royal family of the Arabian Peninsula, of which Flowers has been part for five years. When the media asked him about his close friendship with the princess for three years and about the belief that he would be named during the divorce process, he only stated that he had nothing to say about it.

A London embbady official in the United Arab Emirates told Reuters the lawsuit had taken place: "The UAE government does not intend to comment on the complaints about life private persons ". And the Dubai government's press office refused to comment "a private case being resolved in court ".