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by Susan Flantzer © Unofficial Royalty
Image by © Genevieve Chauvel/Sygma/Corbis
King Hussein inom of Jordan and Lisa Halaby, known as Queen Noor al-Hussein after her marriage, were married on June 15, , at Zahran Palace in Amman, Jordan, the home of Queen Mother Zein, the mother of King Hussein, and the traditional site of Jordanian royal marriages.
King Hussein&#;s Background
King Hussein in ; Photo Credit &#; By Willem van dem Poll &#; Nationaal Archief, CC BY-SA , ?curid=
Hussein bin Talal was born November 14, , in Amman, Jordan, the eldest son of the future King Talal bin Abdullah and Zein al-Sharaf Talal. At the time, Hussein’s grandfather was the Emir of Transjordan, becoming Abdullah I, the first King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan in (the name was later changed to simply ‘Jordan’). Hussein began his education in Amman, after which he attended Victoria College in Alexandria, Egypt. He then attended the Harrow School in England before enrolling in the Ro
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Jordan’s royal rift entangles an American-born queen
At age 27, she married a king. By 47, sooner than she had thought possible, she was a royal widow.
Now, more than two decades later, Jordan’s Queen Noor — the American-born, Princeton-educated former Lisa Halaby — is caught up in a palace drama surrounding her eldest son, the prince she had hoped would eventually follow his charismatic father, the late King Hussein, onto the throne of the Hashemite Kingdom.
Whether lifted from Shakespeare or next up in the video-streaming queue, the story’s plotline seems oddly familiar: the traumatic circumstances of a royal death reverberating down through the years, family tensions simmering quietly for a generation before bursting into full view.
Add in a succession shakeup, a onetime outsider’s complicated relationship with her adopted homeland, the long memories of watchful courtiers — plus a dash of international intrigue and some convoluted Middle Eastern politics.
And at the center
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Queen Noor of Jordan
Queen Dowager of Jordan
Noor Al Hussein (Arabic: نور الحسين; born Lisa Najeeb Halaby; August 23, )[1] is an American-born Jordanian philanthropist and activist who is the fourth wife and widow of King Hussein of Jordan. She was Queen of Jordan from their marriage on June 15, , until Hussein's death on February 7,
Noor is the longest-standing member of the Board of Commissioners of the International Commission on Missing Persons. As of , she is president of the United World Colleges movement and an advocate of the anti-nuclear weapons proliferation campaign Global Zero. In , Queen Noor received Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award for her public service.[2]
Family and early life
[edit]Queen Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby[3] in Washington, D.C., U.S., the eldest child of Najeeb Halaby (–) and Doris Carlquist (–). Her paternal family is Syrian; her maternal family is Swedish American.[4] Her father wa