The Runaway Princesses, Episode 1: Sisters

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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As sex workers flee Sheikh Mohammed’s U.K. estate bruised and weeping, no one is held to account. British authorities look the other way after one of the sheikh’s own daughters tries to escape.

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0:00.0	Just a note that you can get all four episodes of the Runaway Princesses, add free right now at New Yorker.com slash Dark.
0:08.8	Hi, it's Madeline Barron. As you may know, the In the Dark team joined the New Yorker in Conde Nast a few months ago.
0:15.0	Since then, we've been hard at work on season 3 of In the Dark.
0:18.0	It's a big one, and I can't wait for you to hear it.
0:21.0	Season 3 will be out later this year.
0:24.3	And we're also working with our new colleagues
0:26.3	to develop some of the New Yorkers most ambitious reporting
0:29.0	into podcasts.
0:30.4	I'm really excited to bring you our first collaboration today. Here it is.
0:36.0	Hello, my name is Littif al-Machtum. I was born in December 5, 1985. My father is the Prime Minister of UAE and the ruler of
0:48.4	Dubai, Muhammad Rashid Saeed and Magtum. In February of 2018 a
0:54.0	a princess from the royal family in Dubai
0:57.2	sneaked over to a friend's apartment and recorded a video.
1:01.1	I'm making this video because it could be the last video I make.
1:09.6	It was part of a secret plan that took her years to put together to escape from Dubai. The plan involved
1:16.4	an inflatable dinghy and jet skis and a yacht secretly waiting out in the Indian Ocean.
1:23.0	Princess Latifah left her video with friends.
1:25.0	She told them to release it if something went wrong.
1:28.0	And if you are watching this video, it's not such a good thing.
1:32.0	Either I'm dead or I'm in a very very bad
1:35.8	situation
1:38.8	she said I don't know what's happening outside. I hear gun shots men and then we just heard nothing. It was just a complete blank.
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