Louise Callaghan
Appearances
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 4
The United Arab Emirates is one of Britain's closest allies in the Gulf, and particularly Dubai.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 4
The relationship between Dubai and the UK is business, business, business. It is money. It is the millions of pounds that every year flow from one country to the other.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 4
The leaked information is coming from both sides.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 4
So Haya's... narrative that she's building up is that she didn't understand how bad everything was in the later months of 2018 after Mary Robinson's lunch visit then she started figuring out that oh wait something actually something really bad is happening with Latifah now a lot of people who've known her who I've spoken to have questioned that series of events I mean Haya is
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 4
By all accounts, very intelligent. She's very clued in. Knows lots of people within the family as well. She's not separated from the kind of inner workings of the dynasty. She knew all of it.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 2
And I think, to be honest, to me that really speaks to how some of the women in the family are seen. They could be kind of interchangeable.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 2
The impression that I got is that she just sounds desperate to be believed. She really sounds like she's been gaslit for just an incredibly long time and is trying to forestall the claims that her family is going to make about her when she escapes or when the video comes out.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 2
When more details started coming out, then I think the reaction was just one of absolute shock. The idea that he could have done this, that Sheikh Mohammed ordered a bunch of Emirati commandos and Indian commandos to go and pluck her right off it and then just brought her home.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 2
There's been this kind of constant battle of narratives going on between Hervé and other people around Atifa.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 2
The initial response was nothing from the royal family. At first, they just didn't say anything at all.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 2
My name is Louise Callaghan and I'm the Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times of London.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 2
If you are watching this video, it's not such a good thing. I remember I was watching it on my phone and at first I just thought it was a hoax. All my father cares about is his reputation.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 2
They don't care. Royal families, particularly in the Arab world, are not interested in having people poke about in their personal affairs. The idea of someone in the family coming out and saying something like this, it was just unimaginable, completely. We'd never heard anything like that before.