Louise Callahan
Appearances
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 3
So Haya is a highly, highly intelligent, very erudite, very smart, very anglicised woman.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 3
She went to boarding school in the UK and then to Oxford. She's got this love of Jilly Cooper novels, which are these kind of raunchy, Mills and Boone-style novels. She's very multilingual. She's lived in Paris for a while. Very worldly.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 3
The idea that she would marry him came as a great surprise to lots of people who knew her. Mohammed. Despite his love of horse racing and having lots of property in the UK, his whole outlook on life is very, very centred. From Dubai, her role, it appeared, was to be the face of the family. So she would appear wearing Western clothes at Ascot with him. She'd be photographed with the Queen.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 3
So at that point, there's been a lot of questions about whether Latifa's actually alive. There's a lot of people who have been desperately hoping for the UN in particular to arrange a proof of life from Latifa, get some kind of statement out for her.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 3
What we get is this weird situation where Mary Robinson rocks up in Dubai, sits down, poses for a photo with Latifa, who, you know, looks like completely blank-eyed and like there's nothing going on. And she looks scared, if anything, I think.
Infamous
Encore: Dubai's Missing Princesses I Part 3
The result of this was that the whole issue with Latifa all of a sudden just got a lot more attention.