Social media postings appear to show Dubai ruler's daughter

Sheikha Latifa, daughter of the ruler of Dubai, looks on in this undated picture obtained from social media, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Via Sioned Taylor/via REUTERS

LONDON (Reuters) - Two images of Sheikha Latifa, a daughter of the ruler of Dubai, have appeared on Instagram in recent days, three months after the BBC aired a video message in which she said she was being held captive in a barricaded villa.

The images, if verified, would mark one of the few times Latifa has been photographed in public since shortly before she mounted a failed attempt three years ago to escape her father's control by boarding a yacht to sail across the Indian Ocean.