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Hafsa Bint Bani Hani

Hafsa Bint Bani Hani Al Maktoum, born on 29 April 1988, currently lives in Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean. She is one of the princesses from the Royal Family of Dubai. Her father is Rashid Al Maktoum who passed away in 2005 and her mother is Alia Bint Khalifa. She left the Emirate of Dubai at the age of 17, after her father’s death to never come back after being into the guardianship of her uncle but was brought back in 2010 after being kidnapped. Prior to her kidnapping, she was engaged to one of her cousins, got married in 2008 which ended badly before she filed for divorce in 2010, which eventually led to her kidnapping.

The kidnapping made a buzz on the media around the world, which made her withdraw all her complaints against her father’s family to remain anonymous. She was found in a very bad shape, blood all around her head and body, and she was in a coma for 5 days. Her state was deemed critical and her recovery shocked the Dubai world. For 2 years, she stayed inside the house, never to be seen in public, suffering from the trauma. She eventually ran away from her family to come to Mauritius and start a new life under a different name.