Hussein of Jordan
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Hussein bin Talal was King of Jordan from 1952 until his death in 1999. A member of the Hashemite dynasty, he is regarded as a 40th-generation descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Hussein in 1997
Hussein (age six) and his mother, Zein al-Sharaf, 1941
Hussein (age eleven) seen behind his grandfather King Abdullah I after the independence of Jordan was declared, 25 May 1946.
King Hussein in royal ceremonial dress, 1953
Princess Muna Al Hussein
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Princess Muna Al Hussein is the mother of Abdullah II of Jordan. She was the second wife of King Hussein; the couple divorced on 21 December 1972. She is British by birth.
Hussein of Jordan
…child together, a son, Hussein. They divorced in 1987. She remarried in 1988 to Sayyid Mohammed Al-Saleh; they have two sons, Talal and Abdul-Hamid. Toni Avril Gardiner (born in 1941), on 25 May 1961. They met when she was working in a secretarial capacity on the sets of the film Lawrence of Arabia. An award-winning…
Muna in 1964 with her sons, Abdullah II and Faisal