Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan married Rajwa Alseif in Amman, Jordan on June 1 — all about the religious wedding and epic reception for the future King and Queen Skip to content PEOPLE ...

Hussein bin Talal was born on 14 November 1935 in Amman. He ruled over Jordan as an absolute monarch from 1953, when he was only seventeen years old, until his death in 1999 at the age of sixty-three.

Jordan's King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein and Queen Rania arrive at Westminster Abbey in central London May 6, 2023, ahead of the coronation of Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

In May 1953, almost six months before his 18th birthday, Hussein became king. At the age of 20, he steered Jordan clear of the 1956 Suez War between Egypt and an alliance of Britain, France and ...

kindly and cast their verdict for me and not against me.' It was a funeral procession like no other. First came the outpouring of grief and emotion from the ordinary Jordanians who lined the route ...

Hussein was proclaimed King of Jordan on August 11, 1952, and a Regency Council was appointed until his formal Accession to the Throne on May 2, 1953, when he assumed his constitutional powers after ...