Abdullah II of Jordan
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Abdullah II is the 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 traditionally r
Abdullah in 2025
Prince Abdullah (age 2) and Prince Faisal with their parents, King Hussein and Princess Muna, in 1964
Abdullah, age 11, during a 1973 visit to the Royal Jordanian Air Force headquarters
Abdullah welcomed by US Secretary of Defense William Cohen during his first visit to the United States as king in 1999
Hashemites
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The Hashemites, officially the House of Hashim, are the royal family of Jordan, which they have ruled since 1921, and were the royal family of the kingdoms of Hejaz, Syria, and Iraq. The family had ru
Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca (1853–1931), the founder of the modern dynasty
King Faisal I of Iraq and King Ali of Hejaz
The family tree of the Hashemite dynasty
The sons of Hussein: Ali, Abdullah and Faisal, in the mid-1920s