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Princess Haya bint Hussein

英国王室メンバーとアスコット競馬でよくご一緒でした。2019年にロンドンへ亡命、親権を巡って裁判を起こしたとネットで話題になっていましたが、2022年3月に勝訴していたのですね。今回の異母兄アブドラ国王の息子、皇太子の結婚式には顔を見せていないので、いろいろあるのでしょうね。

カタールのモーザ妃も正妃ではない第二夫人、自分がバレンチノを買収したほどの実業家。でも正妃ではなくても、自分が産んだ男児が現在の首長、とものすごく強運でパワフルな女性です。クレオパトラというか女王の貫禄を感じます。顔も体型も緩んでいない、たるんでいない、どのようにキープなさっているのでしょうか。

 

1974年フセイン一世前国王と3人目の妻アリア王妃の間に生まれる。オックスフォード大学セントヒルダズ・カレッジに学び、哲学・政治経済学士卒業。

2000年シドニー五輪ヨルダン代表として障害飛超競技に出場、代表選手団の旗手も務めた。

2004年4月10日にドバイ首長ムハンマド・ビン・ラーシド・アール・マクトゥームと結婚、第二夫人となり、2007年10月10日に長女アル・ジャリーラを出産した。アル・ジャリーラの誕生日はアラブ首長国連邦の祝日となっている。2012年、長男ザーイドを出産。

 

数々の馬術競技会に出場しており、2006年からは国際馬術連盟理事長に選任されている。また、国際オリンピック委員会においてアスリート委員も務める。馬主として競走馬を所有。

2008年6月所有馬ニューアプローチがイギリスのダービーステークス、同年10月にはレイヴンズパスが北米の最高賞金競走ブリーダーズカップ・クラシックを制覇している。

ムハンマドは有数の大馬主として知られており、ゴドルフィンダーレーグループといった世界各地に拠点を置く大規模な競走馬管理・生産組織を主宰している。

2009年にはムハンマドと、第一夫人の子ハムダン王太子と共に、日本中央競馬会において馬主登録を認可された最初の外国人となった。馬主欄では「H.R.H.プリンセス・ハヤ」などと表記される。サマリーズという名の馬。

 

2019年6月身の危険を感じたハヤ王女が、子どもたちを連れてドバイからイギリスに亡命を求めていたと報じられた。2019年から14歳のジャリーラと10歳のザーイドの親権をめぐりロンドンの裁判所で、訴訟を起こした。

2022年3月25日、イギリスの高等法院は、ハヤー・ビント・アル=フセイン王女に子どもたちの単独親権を認め、3年にわたる裁判が結審した。イギリスの裁判所が、ムハンマドは妻に途方もない暴力を加えていたとの判決を下し、その裁判に決着がついた。

実弟アリ王子と。

ハヤ王女もアリ王子も2004年に結婚しています。リム妃と。

ずっと仲の良い実弟アリ王子と。

鷹に目隠しをしているみたいですね。鷹狩りかしら?

高校からイギリスだったというハヤ王女と、生母が英国人の異母兄アブダラ国王は、仲良さそうでしたね。

 

 

フセイン前国王と、ハヤ王女の元夫ドバイのムハンマド首長の若い頃

たしかエリザベス女王に馬を進呈されたことがあったような。とても喜ばれたとか。

毎年アスコット競馬の常連で、アル・ジャリーラ王女がトロフィーを渡した日もありました。

弟のアリ王子と。地味な新郎新婦、アブドラ国王とラニア王妃、アリ王子と親族だけの地味な結婚のサインをする儀式の一枚です。

第二子長男が生まれた頃までは、仲良さそうでしたが。

アスコットでも正妃の産んだハムダン皇太子に説明をしているハヤ王女

ドバイ首長の正妃の産んだハムダン皇太子とアル・ジャリーラ王女

父親似のアル・ジャリーラ王女を溺愛していたドバイ首長。

イード王子

このラニア王妃とハヤ王女の表情は、ドラマのようです。

ハヤ王女は外交官的な立場もあったようですね。

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It's described as the biggest divorce case in British legal history - a settlement of more than £500m involving the billionaire ruler of Dubai and his estranged wife.

The UK's High Court on Tuesday awarded a lump sum settlement of £251.5m to Princess Haya Bint Al-Hussain - the 47-year-old daughter of Jordan's former King Hussein.

She is the youngest of six wives of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum - the multi-billionaire ruler of Dubai, prime minister of the UAE and influential horse-racing owner.

The judgment provides Princess Haya with sums to cover the cost of running two multi-million pound properties - one next to London's Kensington Palace, as well as her main residence in Egham, Surrey.

There is also provision for a substantial "security budget" as well as holidays, salaries and accommodation for both a nurse and a nanny, armoured vehicles for the family, and the cost of maintaining various ponies and pets.

It has also awarded secured payments of £5.6m-a-year to each of her two children, a 14-year-old daughter and a nine-year old son. These are to be secured with a £290m guarantee.

'In fear of her life'

This long-running court custody battle has thrown a spotlight on the normally closed world of Middle Eastern royal families.

Princess Haya fled from Dubai to Britain with her children in 2019, saying she was in fear of her life, after discovering Sheikh Mohammed had previously abducted two of his other daughters - Sheikha Latifa and Sheikha Shamsa - and rendered them back to Dubai against their will.

Sheikh Mohammed, 72, who is also a giant figure in the horse-racing world, has denied the abductions - despite a 2020 High Court judgement saying they were, in all probability, true. He published a poem called "You lived, You Died", widely assumed to threaten the princess after discovering she was having an affair with her British ex-Army bodyguard.

Princess Haya continued to receive threats after moving to Britain, with messages saying "we can reach you anywhere" and she has since spent vast sums on security for fear her children would be abducted and flown back to Dubai.


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Princess Haya fled from Dubai to Britain with her children in 2019, saying she was in fear of her life

The High Court ruled this year that Sheikh Mohammed had illegally hacked the mobile phones of Princess Haya, her bodyguards and her legal team, which includes the Tory peer Baroness Shackleton.

The hack was made using invasive spyware called Pegasus, which infects targeted phones and was produced by the Israeli firm NSO Group. Sheikh Mohammed said he had no hacked material in his possession and no surveillance had been undertaken with his express or implied authority. However, the president of the Family Division of the High Court in the UK found to the contrary.

In the divorce judgment, Mr Justice Moor, decided that, given earlier rulings, the princess and her two children were particularly vulnerable. He said they needed watertight security to ensure their continued safety in the UK. The main threat they faced was not from outside sources, he said, but from their father, a man who had access to the full weight of the state.

"There is a clear and ever-present risk to these children that is almost certain to persist until they obtain their independence," the judge said. As to Princess Haya, he added: "There will remain a clear and ever-present risk to [Princess Haya] for the remainder of her life, whether it be from [Sheikh Mohammed] or just from the normal terrorist and other threats."

The court was told of a security assessment that put the risk to Princess Haya and her children as "severe". The judge subsequently awarded funds to cover the running costs of armoured vehicles for transporting the family.


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Sheikh Mohammed, 72, is prime minister of the UAE and a giant figure in the horse-racing world

The High Court judge said he had done his best to reach a reasonable conclusion, given "the exceptional wealth and remarkable standard of living enjoyed by these children during the marriage". He said that took the case "entirely out of the ordinary".

Lawyers for Princess Haya insisted she had made no claims for her own future needs but she was criticised during court hearings for her lavish spending. Her son, for example, aged just nine, has been given three expensive cars as he was "accustomed to being given cars as gifts". This was, said the judge, a legitimate criticism.

The judgment includes evidence provided by Princess Haya that she had been blackmailed by members of her security staff over an affair she had with one of them. She made several payments to four of these staff, some of which came from her children's bank accounts. To correct this, she said she had sold jewellery to the value of over a £1m and had since had to sell more.

Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai has said heirlooms given to his former wife would be sent on to her. These included ballet shoes given to her by the world famous dancers Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. He also said he has removed the online poem ascribed to him, which the princess perceived as a threat to her life.

He said he had no intention of causing harm to the princess.