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King Hussein and Queen Dina at their wedding on 19 April 1955 at Raghadan Palace King Hussein and Princess Muna with their sons Prince Abdullah and Prince Faisal in 1964 Hussein preparing to fly a de Havilland Vampire aircraft, 1 January 1955. King Hussein was less than seventeen years old, and unmarried, when he came to the throne of Jordan in ...
Hussein, King of Jordan, died at 11:43 on 7 February 1999 at the King Hussein Medical Center in Amman, at the age of 63. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Abdullah. Hussein's state funeral took place in Amman on 8 February 1999. The funeral was the largest gathering of royalty and world leaders since 1995.
Black September (Arabic: أيلول الأسود Aylūl al-ʾAswad), also known as the Jordanian Civil War, [9] was an armed conflict between Jordan, led by King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), led by chairman Yasser Arafat. The main phase of the fighting took place between 16 and 27 September 1970, though certain ...
The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived on Thursday at the royal wedding of Jordan’s Crown Prince Al Hussein and Saudi Arabian architect Rajwa Al Saif.. On 1 June, King Abdullah’s eldest son ...
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.
Here, see all the best photos from the nuptials of Rajwa Al Saif and Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan. They married in a glamorous royal wedding in Amman, Jordan.
Rajwa, 30, was born in Riyadh hailing from a prominent and wealthy Saudi Arabian family loosely related to the country’s current ruler, King Salman. Hussein, 30, was named crown prince in 2004 ...
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.