Last June, the heir to the throne of Jordan, Hussein bin Al Abdullahcelebrated his luxurious wedding with the Saudi architect Rajwa Al Seif. And just a few days ago announced that he and his wife are expecting their first child, that will come into the world this summer – although the sex of the creature is still unknown. “The Royal Hashemite Court extends its sincere congratulations to Their Majesties King Abdullah II and Queen Rania Al Abdullah on this occasion, and wishes Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Al Hussein and Princess Rajwa good health and joy as they welcome her baby,” they explained in a statement.
Rajwa turns 30 today and he also does so at the sweetest moment. Rania from Jordan adores her daughter-in-law and, about to be a grandmother, He wanted to publicly congratulate the princess. He has shared a story of her with a picture of her and has written, “Happy birthday to our dear Rawja!” The queen has shared the photograph that her son has published to congratulate her wife, the prince has dedicated some beautiful words to her. “May God continue to bless and nourish the bond between us. Happy birthday Rajwa!” wrote the heir.
Rania congratulates her daughter-in-law on Instagram.
Little is actually known about how the princes’ love story began. “I met Rajwa through an old friend from school.. I consider myself lucky because it is not every day that you meet someone like Rajwa,” Hussein said in an interview with Vogue Arabia. More information has emerged about Rajwa’s biography, who was born in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, and This April 28, blow out 30 candles. The young woman graduated with a degree in Architecture from Syracuse University in New York in 2017, and then obtained a degree in Visual Communication from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. For her part, Hussein has a degree from Georgetown University (Washington DC) and from the prestigious Sandhurst military academy (England), which Princes William and Harry of England also attended.
In August 2022, the couple announced their engagement, which took place at the bride’s family home in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. Their wedding, in which members of royalty from all over the world paraded, was held in a tent set up in the gardens of the Zahran Palace in Amman. The prince’s parents, Queen Rania and King Abdullah II, were also married there in 1993. It should be remembered that the latter is the son of Hussein I of Jordan, who reigned for almost half a century in the country and initially arranged that the heir to the Hashemite throne was his brother, Prince Hassan.
dynastic tension
In January 1999, just two weeks before dying from cancer, Hussein I changed his mind and named his son Abdullah as such. The latter was sworn in as king before Parliament in February 1999 and, just a few days later, made the Palestinian Rania his queen—the widow Noor from Jordan He left for the United States the next day. As soon as he had the opportunity, Abdullah II approved a royal decree naming his 18-year-old half-brother, Hamzeh, crown prince, favorite son of the late king and his stepmother, Noor. But after a while Rania asserted the scoop on the blood rights of her first offspringHussein, who was designated the new heir to the throne—which further cooled the already distant relationship between the current kings and Noor.
Dynastic tension reached its peak in 2021date on which The attempted coup d’état by Prince Hamzah, former heir to the throne, took place, who said that he had acted this way because he was dissatisfied with the country’s political line. Queen Noor, angry after the arrest of her son, who has since remained under guarded house arrest, took to the social network
The waters calmed down a bit with Rajwa’s wedding, who at that time found more than just a life partner. “A Royal Decree has been issued to grant the title of Her Royal Highness Princess Rajwa Al Hussein to Miss Rajwa Khalid Alseif, on the occasion of her marriage to His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein #Jordan,” he published through his profile on social networks of the royal Hashemite court. Since Prince Hussein is the heir to the throne of Jordan, Princess Rajwa will one day be queen—although the title she holds is not ‘crown princess’.
In common with Rania
It seems that Rajwa and Rania have a good relationship. In addition to physical beauty, Rajwa shares with her mother-in-law a taste for Western luxury brands and a certain ambitious nature.. It remains to be seen if, like she has done, she also dedicates herself to social works and is encouraged to defend women’s rights in a country where, until a few years ago, article 308 of the Penal Code obliged victims of violations to marry her attacker to ‘protect’ her family’s honor.
For now, Rajwa He is grieving the death of his father, Khaled., president and CEO of Al Seif group, one of the main Saudi construction companies, died last February. Both her husband and she have maintained a low profile recently, which is also explained by the fact that the Jordanian royal family reduced its official agenda due to the war in Gaza.
