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Princess Shamsa fled her father Sheikh Mohammed's �75million estate and was kidnapped weeks

later before being flown back to the United Arab Emirates, it is claimed.

A Dubai princess has been tortured, jailed and drugged in the years since she tried to

run away from the Emirati royal family, it is claimed.

Sheikha Shamsa Al Maktoum has attempted suicide three times while locked away from the world,

according to a woman who has worked with Dubai's royals.

Princess Shamsa hasn't been seen in public since 2000 - the year she allegedly ran away

from her father Sheikh Mohammed's �75million estate near Clobham in Surrey.

It is claimed she was kidnapped from a street in Cambridge just weeks later and flown back

to the United Arab Emirates on a private jet.

Shamsa was just 18 when she took a black Range Rover and drove it to the edge of the estate

in July 2000.

She abandoned the car and slipped through a fence on foot.

It was claimed she was desperate to flee a restrictive life and was unhappy after her

father - now aged 70 and one of the world's richest men - told her she would not be allowed

to attend university.

The royal family's search for her ended two months later when she was allegedly kidnapped

and taken back to Dubai.

The following March, a woman claiming to be Shamsa called Cambridgeshire Police saying

she had been abducted.

However, an investigation stalled.

Ms Jauhiainen claims Shamsa, now 37, has been tortured, jailed and drugged, and has attempted

suicide three times.

The Finnish woman was hired to give Shamsa�s sister, Princess Latifa, capoeira lessons

in 2001, and later tried to help her escape.

She claimed to News.com.au that Shamsa was "kidnapped" in the UK and "forcibly taken"

back to the UAE where she was jailed for eight years.

Ms Jauhiainen claims Latifa told her that Shamsa's feet were beaten with wooden canes,

and she was imprisoned again two years ago after attempting to contact Cambridgeshire

police and British media.

Ms Jauhiainen said: "She was locked up in a room in her mother�s house ... she has

been (kept) drugged up."

She claims she saw Princess Shamsa twice - first at the royal family's private sporting complex

in 2001.

Ms Jauhiainen said: "She seemed dazed and very unhappy. She looked uncomfortable and

sad and she was waiting for her PT to arrive. She looked very, very unwell.

�The second time I saw her was at (another) sister�s wedding in 2016. Shamsa had lost

so much weight that she was unrecognisable, she looked like an anorexic, extremely skinny

and Latifah told me that she had actually stopped eating. She is like a zombie.�

Ms Jauhiainen claims Latifa told her that Shamsa had attempted suicide three times.

In a video recorded before Latifa fled Dubai in 2018, she claimed both she and Shamsa had

been tortured.

She said: �Basically one guy was holding me while the other guy was beating me and

they did that repeatedly.

"The next time I was tortured it was for five hours and I was pulled from the bed, driven

to another location in the palace and they tortured me.�

Last month, a cousin claimed Shamsa had written a letter saying she wanted to run away just

months before she vanished.

Ms Jauhiainen and Latifa became friends and took up skydiving together.

As they grew closer, Latifa began to reveal how she had been treated horribly by her family,

claiming she had spent more than three years in jail and been beaten after she failed to

escape in Dubai in 2002 when she was 16, Ms Jauhiainen claims.

Ms Jauhiainen tried to help Latifa escape in March 2018 when they drove across the border

to Oman, travelled almost 25 miles by jet ski and inflatable boat to former French navy

officer Herve Jaubert's yacht in international waters.

Latifa, 33, had tried to escape on the yacht but was allegedly recaptured by Emirati and

Indian soldiers who stormed the vessel as it approached the coast of Goa, India.

She claimed in a video last year that she and her older sister had been held prisoner

after trying to escape years earlier.

Ms Jauhiainen spent two weeks in jail in Dubai and has since launched the Free Latifa campaign.

Earlier this week, Princess Haya, the estranged wife of Sheikh Mohammed, asked a UK court

for a forced marriage protection order.

Last month, Haya, 45, was reported to be in hiding in London and was said to be in fear

of her life.

She has asked for wardship of her children, who left the UAE with her, and as a forced

marriage protection order and a non-molestation order.

The full hearing of the dispute will be heard in London on November 11.