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you an amazing story we made with our
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colleague at the New Yorker, Heidi Blake. So.
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Heidi. Where. Do we start? Well
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it starts with the story of a
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princess who decided to run away. My
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name is Lucy Fun to My
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father is a prime Minister of
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you ie. and under the winner
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of the by Princess Latif. His
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father is one of the world's
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richest people. His wives and children
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live in unbelievable luxury, but the
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families rules for women can be
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suffocating and defying them can mean
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brutal punishment. Princess
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Latifah wanted to escape and February
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twenty eighteen, she sneaked over to
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a friend's apartment and recorded this
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video. So I need to make
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this video. In
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case I don't eat him. Her
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escape plan involved an inflatable dinghy
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and jet skis and a yacht
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secretly waiting out in the Indian
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Ocean. She left the video with
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friends. She told them to release
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it if anything went wrong and
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if Egypt the are watching this
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video, it's not such a good
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thing. Either I'm dead or eminent
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day. Right Jewish. That
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that? Yeah, This video gets
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will move the hell do we do
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now She said I was happening outside
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or she returns. Shorts man. Has
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nothing it was just trying to run
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throughs wouldn't suspect. And
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form of the shake. This
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say Mohammed Bin Rashid Al
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Maktoum. He transforms the by
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from a little fishing village
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oh this is and was
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them into a world power
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and the snow skyscrapers rise
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and clusters man made islands
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rise. From the see, an entire
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Neighborhoods With all this. Money comes
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tremendous power power that extends
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far beyond this one. Incredibly.
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Wealthy city because you have or two thousand
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from the see you can be for to
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be brutally we won't in order to get
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away with it. While
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seamless reporting the story. Heidi.
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Got access to things know, journalists.
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Had reported before. Letters
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Audio recordings, And
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videos made in secret by the six
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data which isa. See. Interviewed
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people who never talk. To Reporters.
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And now I've been working with the In the.team to
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make a new. Put cost the
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runaway princesses. It's.
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The story of a powerful sake
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and a daughter determined. To be funny.
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It's a story of police being told to
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stand down when they get too. Close
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to the shakes family secrets it's
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a look behind the palace was
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to answer the question. Might
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have the women and Shaikh Mohammed family. Keep
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trying to run away. The.
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