She appeared to be a homeless down-and-out when she was discovered slumped next to railings with a suitcase and possessions lying nearby – while a three-year-old child in her care played perilously close to a busy road.
Shocking video footage captured by a passerby showed the shoeless woman collapsed on the pavement of a smart residential street in west London. Close by was an unconscious man lying on the doorstep of a Victorian townhouse.
Astonishingly the ‘vagrant’ turned out to be Mahrah Al Nahyan – a member of the fabulously rich Abu Dhabi royal family estimated to be worth £250billion.
Her identity was revealed this week
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