The bodyguard of Princess Haya, at the Dubai Emir's divorce center

Princess Haya Bint Husein, daughter of the late Hussein of Jordan and wife of Mohamed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Emir of Dubai, made headlines in the British media in recent weeks after the announcement of her request for Divorce and Leak Court of London. Today, the Daily Mail has revealed the identity of whoever, according to him, is at the center of these decisions: Russell Flowers, a 36-year-old British infantryman and princess bodyguard.

Last year, Flowers, a soldier of the Royal Regiment of the Princess of Wales, was photographed with Princess Haya during the annual visit of the Dubai royal family to Ascot with her son and the Emir, seven years old. Since then, the bodyguard has been more discreet, especially after rumors that the emir began to suspect their "intimate relationships". As the British portal now says, this relationship was an open secret within the security team of the Royal Family of the Arabian Peninsula, to which Flowers has belonged 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.

Specifically, Flowers watches over the safety of the princess and her two children at Dalham Hall Stud, Dubai's Emir's Manor located in Newmarket, England. According to the British newspaper, Haya of Jordan would have come to buy a house and entertain it with expensive gifts, such as a Range Rover with a custom license plate, a rifle of some kind. about 55,000 euros or a suit for Saville Row. In addition, the princess asked her to accompany her in her travels and, although for security reasons, she sometimes had to be supervised by two bodyguards, she often insisted that she be left alone with him.

"There were times when I was with two bodyguards, but then she was throwing a, or Flowers told the other that it was not necessary, "according to a source close to the environment of the princess who quotes the Daily mail. "When the bodyguard in question explained to the princess that it violated the security protocol, she fired it."

Since then, for the first time in years, she did not attend her annual meeting in Ascot last month, where she and her husband have been regulars since 2004, the comings and goings of the Jordanian princess have triggered the investigations of British tabloids. Until last week, after a publication in The GuardianIt was learned that he was in London, where the newspaper reports that he fled with his two children – Jalila, 11, and Zayed, seven – for a total of $ 39. about 35 million euros. A graduate in Political Science, Philosophy and Economics from the Oxford University in the United Kingdom and at the University of Oxford, she is a recognized rider in equestrian circuits, is part of International Olympic Committee and has been a goodwill ambbadador for the global program. United Nations for Food.

Sheik Mohamed, 69, and Princess Haya, 45, met at the World Equestrian Games in Jerez in 2002, and two years later, they were married. The half-sister of the king of Jordan thus became "the young woman of the emir", according to the terminology dubaití, who had already contracted previous marriages. Tabloids such as The Sun echoed poems allegedly published by Sheikh Mohamed on his Instagram page before being erased from the network. "A fatal arrow pierced my heart and made me mad," reads one of the verses. "Let the past go: soften your heart, forgive my mistakes and reward my good deeds." The intended reconciliation message does not seem to have worked for the moment.