Princess Latifa’s representatives released a statement saying the meeting was held “to assert her right to a private life, following persistent media speculation about her”.
The statement continued: “Latifa would like to make clear that she is living as she wishes, that she is travelling as she wishes, that she is perfectly well and that she would like the media to allow her to live in peace.”
The daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai’s billionaire ruler, Princess Latifa lived a life of cloistered luxury in the UAE. That was until she fled aboard a yacht in February 2018, accompanied by a Finnish fitness instructor she befriended through capoeira classes and Hervé Jaubert, a French captain who said he once worked for French intelligence.
