Most women are the not the daughter and sister of kings. |
The best! She vets them, ahem, personally! |
She also had the balls to sleep with her bodyguard. Most men would be at least mildly unhappy if their wives enjoy the hired help. |
He has lots of kids so he probably has his favorites and the heir already selected and its so public now its not as simple as what he did to the other daughters. |
The senior wife. The consort. The real deal. |
And the mother of the future sheikh. She's not going anywhere. |
He'd have to kidnap them. That's not as easy as it sounds, especially from the UK. And there would be significant political consequences. |
The kids will get to him themselves when they run out of money or decide they'd like a piece. |
But he already did that. He kidnapped his first daughter from Cambridge and there were no consequences. |
The first daughters mother is a nobody. Haya has a much higher profile and is friends with British royalty. |
True, but that was in 2000. There was an investigation opened, but nothing came of it. Now you have a second daughter kidnapped, a high-profile divorce case with a damning ruling against the Sheikh, finding that he kidnapped both of the other daughters and conducted a campaign of abuse against Haya. The judge even implicated the British Foreign Office in withholding information about Shamsa's case. I have no doubt he has the resources at hand, but it'd be hard to ever restore that diplomatic relationship. He can bide his time and lure the kids back when they are older. |
The kids will come voluntarily when they want to get their inheritance. Although with thirty children, there may not be much to collect. |
Doesn’t matter. If he wants them back, he will get them back. Britain can huff and puff all they want but at the end of the day, they’ll do nothing. Those kids are Emirati citizens, not British citizens. |
Haya has diplomatic accreditation in the UK through the Jordanian Embassy, which extends to her children. She is not some random Emirati expat. The first Vanity Fair article linked earlier points out that Dubai, while rich, is dependent on bringing in tourist and expat dollars. It's not like kidnapping his own kids is going to tank Dubai or something, but all that mixing freely with royalty and the elites? Not if you get Ronan Farrow or the like on your case, not to mention the diplomatic fallout. |
None of that matters. Dubai has not been impacted by what he’s done thus far. Taking back two more of his children won’t change a thing about tourism. The people who eat up the Ronan Farrow articles are not the ones flying to Dubai to begin with. |