Princess Haya and Dubai ruler begin London court battle

princess Haier Dubai ruler and wife begin London Court battle the ruler of Dubai one of the most high-profile leaders in the Middle East and his estranged wife are beginning a court battle in London over the welfare of their children Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum's wife Princess Haya bint Al Hussein is the third female member of his court to run away from the United Arab Emirates News taken from BBC all clips may not represent the story watch to become bilingual as this video is specially made for English learners this month she was reported to be in hiding in London in fear for her life the UK court case centers around their children with whom she fled Princess Haya who was born in Jordan and educated at private schools in Britain is an Olympic equestrian and the half-sister of the current Jordanian ruler King Abdullah the second she married Sheikh Muhammad in 2004 becoming his sixth and junior wife the 70 year old Sheikh who is the billionaire owner of Godolphin horse racing stables reportedly has 23 children by different wives princess Haier initially fled to Germany to try and seek asylum there but it emerged this month that she was living in central London specifically in an 85 million pounds 107 million dollars town house in Kensington Palace Gardens it's believed that Princess Haya will want to stay in the UK however if her husband demands her return to Dubai this could cause a diplomatic headache for Britain which has close ties to the United Arab Emirates UAE after she flared shape Mohammed wrote an angry poem accusing an unnamed woman of betrayal and treachery and posted it on his Instagram page why is princess Haier said to have run away sources close to the princess said earlier this month that she had recently discovered disturbing facts about the mysterious return to Dubai last year of Shaker Latifah one of Sheikh Mohammed's daughters Shekar Latifah had escaped the UAE by sea with the help of a Frenchman but was intercepted by armed men off the coast of India she was then returned to Dubai at the time Princess Haya defended Dubai reputation over the incident claiming that she Aquila Tifa had been vulnerable to exploitation and was now safe in Dubai human rights advocates said she was abducted against her will however later sources alleged that Princess Haya had become aware of new information related to the case and as a result came under increasing pressure from her husband's extended family the following biography taken from Wikipedia Princess Haya bint Hussein was born on the 3rd of May 1974 she is the daughter of King Hussein of Jordan and his third wife Queen Alia and the half-sister of King Abdullah the second she married the ruler of the emirate of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in 2004 becoming his sixth and junior wife she is known internationally as princess hire of Jordan he had her graduation from Oxford University in England she is an accomplished equestrian representing Jordan at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney she is the two-term president of the International Federation for equestrian sports in addition she engages in a variety of charitable activities in June 2019 it was reported that she had left her husband and fled Dubai with her children and was seeking asylum in the United Kingdom she was born in Amman the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan she has a younger brother Prince Ali bin Hussein and younger sister Abby Irma hisen however her sister was adopted after her biological mother was killed by a plane crash at the Palestinian refugee camp in Amman at that time she was three years old her father died from complications related to non-hodgkins lymphoma in 1999 leaving the crown to her half-brother king abdullah ii she was educated in the United Kingdom where she attended badminton school for girls in Bristol bryanston school in Dorset and later sand Hilda's College Oxford University from which she graduated with a BA Honours degree in philosophy politics and economics on the 10th of April 2004 Princess Haya Wed Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum the vice-president prime minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai the marriage ceremony was held at Alba Rocca palace in Amman on the 2nd of December 2007 in Dubai Princess Haya gave birth to her first child Shekar gelila bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum the baby's birth coincided with the United Arab Emirates 36 celebration of its National Day on the 7th of January 2012 she gave birth to her second child Sheikh Zayed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum on the 30th of June 2019 news reports stated that Princess Haya left Dubai with her children's aid and gelila and with 31 million pounds and was in fear for her life she is reported to have applied for asylum in Germany and the British newspaper The Times reported that she had been escorted by a German diplomat to Germany according to multiple news reports Sheikh al maktoum allegedly posted a poem on Instagram in Arabic and English accusing his wife of treachery and betrayal The Times also stated that she was now living with her two children in a mansion near Kensington Palace worth about 85 million pounds has sought asylum in the United Kingdom and is asking for a divorce and preparing for a legal battle in the High Court on the 5th of july 2019 Princess Haya was sued in the United Kingdom's High Court of Justice by her husband petitioning for custody of their children princess Haier began horse riding internationally when she was 13 in 1992 she took the bronze medal in individual jumping at the 7th pan Arab games in Damascus Syria and in 1993 was named Jordans athlete of the Year Princess Haya was the first woman to represent her native Jordan in international equestrian sport and the only woman to win a medal in the pan Arab equestrian games having trained for several years in Ireland and Germany she qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney Australia representing Jordan in show jumping where she was also her country's flag bearer in 2007 Princess Haya became a member of the International Olympic Committee IOC and in 2010 became an appointee to the io C's International Relations Committee and has also served on the IOC athletes and culture and Olympic education commissions on the 7th of June 2008 new approach a three-year-old colt owned by Princess Haya trained in Ireland by Jim Bolger and written by Kevin Manning won the Derby stakes on the 25th of October 2008 her three-year-old colt ravens pass won the $5,000,000 Breeders Cup Classic after being named the European champion two-year-old in 2007 and winning the 2008 Epsom Derby new approach was retired at the end of the 2008 racing season in 2009 due to her contribution to the equine world she was made the first patron of retraining of racehorses Princess Haya serves as president of the International Jordanian athletes cultural Association which she founded to provide athletes with needed national incentive and support Princess Haya participated in the 2002 Fei World Equestrian Games at Jerez de la Frontera in Spain and represented Jordan at the Fei General Assembly on several occasions she was elected president of the International Federation for equestrian sports Fei in 2006 for an initial four-year term in the Fei is first contested presidential race in 2010 she became the first sitting Fei president to be challenged in a reelection bed she succeeded however in winning a second and final four-year term receiving 75% of the vote to soundly defeat her two European rivals nonetheless during the fbi's campaign to eliminate doping and horse abuse in equestrian sport Princess highers husband and stepson were both convicted by the FBI in 2009 for serious doping violations princess higher-seeded presidential powers - a senior colleague for the FEI disciplinary processes on the matter she later complained that the issue would be used to injure and damage the reputations of myself and my family Princess Haya frequently appeared along with her husband but royal asket the Epsom Derby and other highlights of the English equestrian calendar both are reported to be friendly with Queen Elizabeth the second princess higher is the first Arab and first woman to become goodwill ambassador for the United Nations World Food Programme and UN Secretary General Ban ki-moon appointed her a UN messenger of peace in 2007 she founded tea kiye tea O'Malley to earth the first Arab NGO dedicated to overcoming local hunger in her native Jordan which provides food assistance and employment opportunities to thousands of poor families in November 2012 tea kiye tea O'Malley announced a campaign to quadruple the number of its beneficiaries to reach 20,000 families living under the food poverty line aiming to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals on hunger by 2015 t ki y et omalley to her is intended to expand to reach all Jordanian families with insufficient income to meet basic food needs in addition dar abu abdullah da and ture announced a strategic partnership for a parallel jobs creation program to help to of beneficiaries become more self-sufficient Princess Haya chairs Dubai's international humanitarian City which is the world's largest operational Centre for the delivery of aid both in emergencies and for long-term development 10 UN agencies and nearly 40 non-government organizations are members of the IHC which has supported relief efforts all over the globe including for Syrian refugees affected by civil war for East Africans during the last drought in Pakistan during the 2009 floods and to Afghanistan and Yemen the IHC has also hosted UN an NGO staff evacuated during emergencies and civil unrest Princess Haya was an ambassador for the World Food Programme 2005 to 2007 and then appointed a UN messenger of peace in July 2007 by Secretary General Ban ki-moon she was a founding member of former secretary-general Kofi Annan's global humanitarian forum based in Geneva and writes editorials and articles on hunger nutrition in the UN sustainable development goals which have appeared in the London time's la Figaro The Globe and Mail and la república in August 2012 she supported the 2012 United Nations world humanitarian day in Dubai under her patronage Dubai has twice hosted the global meeting of the World Food Programme and is increasingly a center for United Nations and regional meetings on development and humanitarian aid relief and charitable programs in Jordan have also benefited from the support of the princess's consort Sheikh Mohammed specifically the King Hussein Cancer Foundation the Haier cultural center and lead reading nation campaign princess hire and Tracy Edwards meeting in 2017 Princess Haya has followed in her father's footsteps in giving her support to the charitable foundation anything is possible set up in the name of King Hussein to advance education for girls including the project the Maidan factor established by Sailor Tracy Edwards with the relaunch of her yacht Maidan in 2018 she is a member of the honorary board of the International Paralympic Committee on the 26th of September 2014 she was awarded officer of the National order of the Legion of Honour which is Frances highest distinction and the 22nd of January 2015 she was also awarded hunger hero by UN World Food Programme in Davos Switzerland please subscribe to my channel thanks for watching

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Length: 12min 24sec (744 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 30 2019