The night was cool, and the women were huddled in hoodies, but Latifa urged her friend to sleep on deck with her. Beside her was her friend Tiina Jauhiainen, a Finnish martial-arts instructor who had helped prepare for her escape. Latifa was thirty-two and petite, with a loose ponytail and intense dark eyes. But tonight the sea was calmer, and she felt the stirring of an unfamiliar sensation. Since setting out by dinghy and Jet Ski a few days before, she had been swamped by powerful waves, soaking the belongings she’d stowed in her backpack after clambering aboard the yacht she’d secured for her escape, she’d spent days racked with nausea as it pitched on the swell. Far out on the Arabian Sea one night in February, 2018, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, the fugitive daughter of Dubai’s ruling emir, marvelled at the stars.
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