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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 Hashemites, who have been the reigning royal family of Jordan since 1921, and is considered a 41st-generation direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
A choral hymn was then sung, and then the newly crowned king and queen listened to a second sermon and the reading of the Gospel, which brought the service to an end. [25] In 1660 the coronation ritual was replaced with a ceremony of anointing: the new king would arrive at the coronation site already wearing the crown, and he was then anointed ...
Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein (Arabic: عبد الله الأول بن الحسين, romanized: ʿAbd Allāh al-Awwal bin al-Ḥusayn, 2 February 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the ruler of Jordan from 11 April 1921 until his assassination in 1951.
In Spain, since his abdication, Juan Carlos has usually been referred to as the rey emérito ('king emeritus') by the press. [1] [2] Juan Carlos is the son of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, and grandson of Alfonso XIII, the last king of Spain before the abolition of the monarchy in 1931 and the subsequent declaration of the Second Spanish ...
In Spain, the Visigothic king Sisenand was crowned in 631, and in 672, Wamba was the first occidental king to be anointed as well, by the archbishop of Toledo. Two prayers for the coronation of Byzantine emperors are found in the Byzantine Archieratikon (Slavonic: Chinovnik ).
Fahd was Hassa's second son; his elder half-brother Abdullah bin Muhammad was his mother's only son from her previous marriage to Prince Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman, Fahd's paternal uncle. [ 9 ] Fahd's education took place at the Princes' School in Riyadh, a school established by King Abdulaziz specifically for the education of members of the ...
More than 700 guests are expected to attend the coronation, including Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Bahrain King Hamad Isa al Khalifa. The ceremony will be followed by a royal banquet later ...
21 April 1509 (King) 11 June 1509 (Queen) marriage: Sunday, 24 June 1509: William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury [b] Anne Boleyn- article: 28 May 1533 marriage: Sunday, 1 June 1533: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury Edward VI - article [c] 28 January 1547: Sunday, 20 February 1547 Mary I - article [d] 19 July 1553: Sunday, 1 October 1553