How do you solve a problem like Maria? Putin's little-known daughter 'flees Holland with her boyfriend' after Dutch fury grows at Russian links to MH17 disaster

The 29-year-old elder daughter of Vladmir Putin faced calls for her to be deported from the country where she is reported to live with her Dutch partner Jorrit Faassen, 34, an executive for a Russian consultancy firm. He owns a two-storey penthouse (top right) APARTMENT at the top of a luxury high-security block in Voorschoten. The face of Maria Putin - if it is her in the pictures widely published today- (bottom right) will be a revelation to most Russians who have never seen their president, who first came to power in the Kremlin on the final day of 1999, properly pictured with his two daughters by ex-wife Lyudmila, except as children (centre and left).