Timeline of events in lives of Dubai ruler’s daughters and ex-wife

From alleged abduction of daughters to hacking ex-wife's phone, family affairs of Sheikh Mohammed over 20 years

• The walls are closing in on me': the hacking of Princess Haya

Princess Shamsa, then 19, is abducted from the streets of Cambridge, it is alleged by staff working for her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, and forced to return to the United Arab Emirates. The Guardian is the first to report in December 2001 that detectives are examining Shamsa's kidnapping by agents of her father.