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Dubai Media Office says reports of Crown Prince’s engagement are untrue

Dubai Crown Prince HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Dubai Crown Prince HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Dubai Crown Prince HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Online rumours that the Crown Prince of Dubai, HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, has got engaged are groundless, the Dubai government’s media department has said.

The emphatic denial came after unfounded reports of a supposed engagement to a Palestinian woman appeared on a satirical website before being picked up by a number of mainstream Arabic-language media.

Dubai Media Office later refuted the reports, issuing a statement on Twitter.

“DXBMediaOffice asserts that recent rumors on social media platforms about engagement of Dubai Crown Prince @HamdanMohammed is groundless,” read the tweet.

It had been reported that the Crown Prince was engaged to a 23-year-old woman. The story is thought to have first appeared on the World News Daily Report, a satirical online publication.

But it spread via social media and the news was quoted in several Arabic newspapers and magazines.