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The sons of Hussein bin Ali, the Grand Emir and Sharif of Mecca were set up as the kings of Iraq and Jordan in the aftermath of the Arab Revolt and World War I.. The Jordanian monarchy was set up in 1921, with Abdullah I becoming Emir of the Emirate of Transjordan, a post he held from 11 April 1921 until Transjordan gained independence on 25 May 1946 as the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan.
Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein [a] (born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999.He is a member of the Hashemite, who have been the reigning royal family of Jordan since 1921, and is considered a 41st-generation direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
The family tree of the Hashemite dynasty. After the war, the British devised a "Sharifian Solution" to "[make] straight all the tangle" of their various wartime commitments. [15] This proposed that three sons of Sharif Hussein would be installed as kings of newly created countries across the Middle East. [16]
Hussein bin Talal (Arabic: الحسين بن طلال, romanized: Al-Ḥusayn bin Ṭalāl; 14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was King of Jordan from 11 August 1952 until his death in 1999. As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of Jordan since 1921, Hussein was a 40th-generation direct descendant of the Islamic prophet ...
King Hussein's brother, Prince Muhammad, was the heir presumptive to the throne until the birth of Hussein's eldest son, Abdullah. Abdullah was his father's heir apparent from his birth in 1962 until 1965, when Hussein decided to appoint his 18-year-old brother Hassan as heir apparent because of the unstable situation at the time.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Princess Rajwa, wife of Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan, gave birth to a baby girl Saturday, the couple's firstborn and first grandchild of King Abdullah II, the country's ...
Muna Al Hussein was born in Chelmondiston, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Doris Elizabeth (née Sutton) and Lieutenant Colonel Walter Percy "Tony" Gardiner. She attended Bourne School in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, which was administered by the British Families Education Service for the children of British service personnel stationed overseas, where she was an A-grade field hockey player.
Catherine, Princess of Wales, was diagnosed with cancer and is currently undergoing preventative chemotherapy, she announced March 22. The former Kate Middleton and her father-in-law, King Charles ...