Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is shown connected June 22, 2019. A British tribunal connected Tuesday ordered the ruler of Dubai to wage his ex-wife and their children astir 550 cardinal pounds ($730 million), successful 1 of the astir costly divorcement settlements successful British history. The High Court said Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum indispensable wage 251.5 cardinal pounds to his sixth wife, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, and marque ongoing payments for their children Al Jalila, 14, and Zayed, 9 underpinned by a slope warrant of 290 cardinal pounds. (Mike Egerton/PA via AP) (Mike Egerton)

LONDON – A British tribunal connected Tuesday ordered the ruler of Dubai to wage his ex-wife and their children adjacent to 550 cardinal pounds ($730 million), successful 1 of the astir costly divorcement settlements successful British history.

The High Court said Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum indispensable wage 251.5 cardinal pounds to his sixth wife, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, and marque ongoing payments for their children Al Jalila, 14, and Zayed, 9, underpinned by a slope warrant of 290 cardinal pounds.

The full magnitude the children person could beryllium much oregon little than 290 cardinal pounds, depending connected factors including however agelong they unrecorded and whether they reconcile with their father.

The colony includes 11 cardinal pounds a twelvemonth to screen information costs for Princess Haya and the children portion they are underage.

Judge Philip Moor said the household needed “water-tight security," and that “absolutely uniquely,” the main menace to them came from Sheikh Mohammed, alternatively than extracurricular sources.

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Haya, 47, fled to the U.K. successful 2019 and sought custody of her 2 children done the British courts. The princess, who is the girl of the precocious King Hussein of Jordan, said she was “terrified” of her husband, who is alleged to person ordered the forced instrumentality to the Gulf emirate of 2 of his daughters.

Sheikh Mohammed, 72, is besides the premier curate of the United Arab Emirates and a large equine breeder. The laminitis of the palmy Godolphin horse-racing stable, helium is connected affable presumption with Queen Elizabeth II.

A British household tribunal justice ruled successful October that Sheikh Mohammed had authorized the hacking of Princess Haya’s telephone during their ineligible battle. He denied cognition of the hacking.

The justice besides ruled that Sheikh Mohammed had conducted a run of fearfulness and intimidation against his estranged woman and “ordered and orchestrated” the abduction and forced instrumentality to Dubai of 2 of his big daughters: Sheikha Shamsa successful August 2000 and her sister Sheikha Latifa, successful 2002 and again successful 2018.

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