“Every day I am amazed by the things he does,” she told Emirates Woman magazine in 2016. “Every single day I thank god that I am lucky enough to be close to him.”But cracks appeared to show last year when Sheikha Latifa, one of Sheikh Mohammed’s daughters, tried to flee the country. In a video that spread worldwide, the 33-year-old princess claimed she and her family “did not have freedom of choice” in their lives, and that she had been subjected to abuse.