She should have a fairytale life, surrounded by luxury and attention, and instead she found herself undergoing a nightmare imprisonment, under the strict control of the police.
Princess Latifa, daughter of the Emir of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, launches a new disturbing appeal on the conditions in which her father-master, as well as one of the richest men on the planet, has forced her to stay for years.
And it does so through a series of videos shot with a smartphone in secret and made to arrive on the Panorama program of the British BBC TV.
"I am in a villa and this house has been transformed into a prison, all the windows are barred, I cannot open them, there are five police officers outside the house and two inside", the 35-year-old sheikh's words. who says she locked herself in the bathroom to record her SOS messages, the only place she can do it without getting caught.
In another recording, published online on the BBC news site, the emir's first bed daughter, and the protagonist years ago of a daring attempt to escape by sea ended with the capture by the command units sent by her father up off the Indian coast, she is accused of having even been "drugged" on that occasion, only to be taken back to her gilded prison.
In the last video she appears even more distressed: "I don't know what they want to do with me - she adds - the situation gets worse every day, I'm really tired of all this".
The sending of secret messages for help was then interrupted and some friends of the princess delivered the videos to the broadcaster and asked for the intervention of the United Nations.
For some time, the Emirati authorities have said that Latifa is safe with her family.
A rumor of his bipolar disorder had also been spread, which turned out to be false.
Several public figures have taken the fate of the captive princess to heart.
Like former UN high commissioner and former Irish president, Mary Robinson, who described Latifa as a "troubled young woman" after meeting her in 2018 and now says she was "horribly deceived" by the emir's family.
He called for international action to establish the current conditions and the exact location of the 35-year-old, who tried to escape from her father-master twice without success: as a teenager in 2002 and then in 2018. This is just the 'last of the problems for the powerful emir of Dubai, who however counts on alliances and billionaire interests with the West.