Princess Haya’s crazy rich Dubai life – before her US$728 million divorce settlement, the Jordanian royal owned 400 racehorses, a US$85 million designer wardrobe and hung out with Queen Elizabeth
- The Jordanian princess will get a whopping US$728 million settlement from her billionaire ex-husband, making the split one of the most expensive divorces in history
- The Dubai royals’ children had an allowance exceeding the inheritances of Bill and Melinda Gates’ children, and the couple once spent US$3 million on strawberries
In one of the most expensive divorces in history, the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, was ordered to pay his ex-wife, Princess Haya bint al-Hussein, about US$728 million by a UK court earlier this month.
The current vice-president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) tied the knot with Princess Haya, who was his sixth wife (second official wife), in 2004, and got divorced in 2019.
The settlement has ended the lingering legal battle between the 72-year-old ruler of the emirate of Dubai and his 47-year-old former wife.
So what does the jaw-dropping settlement include? The court has awarded Princess Haya almost US$7 million for nine weeks of foreign holidays a year, two weeks in the UK, and also three weekends in Jordan and three weekends away in the UK, reports The Guardian. It also includes security costs up to the year 2068, which is more than 45 years away. An amount of about US$2.2 million has been allocated for a kitchen extension, security upgrades and a pizza oven to be built at the London home in which the princess currently lives in with her two children.
Speaking of her current home, the daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan resides between two mansions – a US$135 million mansion in London’s Kensington Palace and a 12-bedroom country home near Egham in Surrey, according to The Daily Mail.
With that whopping divorce settlement, we’re interested in finding out more about Princess Haya’s extravagant lifestyle in Dubai before she fled to the UK in 2019. Here’s a closer look at what life with unlimited money looked like for the Dubai royal before the split.
1. “Limitless” access to money, including yachts and private jets
No doubt Princess Haya, the daughter of King Hussein of Jordan and his third wife Queen Alia, enjoyed an extravagant life long before her marriage to the ruler of Dubai. After her marriage to Sheikh Mohammed, Princess Haya and her children had “limitless” access to money, her lawyer told the judge in the settlement case. She also had access to a 400 million pound yacht (roughly US$540 million), luxurious mansions and a fleet of privates planes at her disposal.