

court, the amount pales in comparison to a few other recent divorce settlements of the ultra-wealthy. While Tuesday’s settlement could be one of the largest of its kind ever awarded by a U.K. The couple once spent £2 million ($2.6 million) on strawberries in a single summer when they were married, it was revealed in court.

Haya said she was “ terrified” after a phone conversation with Mohammed about the affair, and a poem he published titled “You lived, You Died” was “ widely assumed to threaten the princess.” Surprising Fact Mohammed’s lawyer in turn said Haya’s demands were excessive and that she was using her children the sheikh had criticized her in the past for using £6.7 million from her children’s funds to pay off members of her former security team who blackmailed her after she had an affair with one of them. Since then judges have found that Mohammed subjected his former spouse to a campaign of “intimidation,” including using spyware to hack into and monitor her phone and those of her staff, and that he had abducted and imprisoned two of his daughters from a previous marriage.

Tuesday’s decision follows a lengthy court battle after Haya fled to the United Kingdom in 2019 fearing for her safety. The two married in 2004 and share a 14-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son. Mohammed is the prime minister and vice president of the United Arab Emirates Haya is the half-sister of Jordan’s King Abdullah and is the sheikh’s sixth wife.
