Mrs. Robinson and the Missing Princess
Why would Ireland’s former president weigh in on an Arab heiress’s psychiatric condition?
Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum wasn’t seen in public for almost a year. In March 2018 Princess Latifa, the 33-year-old daughter of Dubai’s absolute ruler, was planning to claim asylum at the U.S. Embassy in India when she was allegedly seized by Indian and Emirati special forces from a yacht in the Arabian Sea and, apparently, returned home. Then—silence.
After Princess Latifa’s disappearance, her friends released a video, recorded earlier, in which she claimed she’d suffered years of abuse, imprisonment and torture...