The thing with Rania is that there is always an emphasis on her style rather than any substance she offers - if any which is the point of this thread I guess.
No matter how many charities or rights organizations Rania is a part of, so long as she is part of them in only a cursory manner, the focus paid by the media will always be to the designer clothes she wears, how beautiful she is and what a young queen she is. Unlike the other present reigning queens who have been in their roles for decades, and before that as Crown Princesses, Rania has not established herself yet. Nor does it seem she cares to or intends to.
When you think of some of the other Queens, you can immediately think of charities they are affiliated with or especially devoted to, such as Queen Silvia with her children's charities or Queen Margrethe and her art patronages, or Princess Diana to AIDS charities and Queen Noor to landmines. Even more startling is that some of the Crown Princesses who have been part of their royal families for roughly the same amount of time as Rania has been Queen have been able to establishe their own charitable mandates: Princess Laurentien with her literacy charities or Crown Princess Mette-Marit with her AIDS charities. But no such charity immediately comes to mind when one thinks of Rania. (Unless Prada is a charity now.)
In another thread someone asked what Rania needs to do to change the perception of herself as being merely a designer clothes queen. I think what she needs to do is to embrace a charity or a cause in a major way. She needs to bring as much attention to an organization as Princess Diana did to landmines in the last few months of her life. With her physical looks and her youth, Rania can no doubt capture public attention on this organization or this issue and really support it and try to bring solutions to the matter. Until she can be seen to be really fighting for something, championing some cause and putting 100% of herself behind it, instead of just showing up at events here and there, she will never be more than style which drastically lacks substance.
I don't know if Rania has it in her to do this though. I think she is a smart woman but I don't think she is that committed to her role as Queen in the way that some of the other queens and princesses are. I think she likes the title, the prestige and the big palaces and perks that go with the role but to get out there and perform royal engagements day in and day out the way Queen Elizabeth does, I simply don't see her doing that. Rania will perform the role so long as she is financially reimbursed in a fair manner, whether that means actual dollars or in clothes and purses. If royals were stripped of their civil salary, their palaces and those chauffered cars, but asked to stay on and represent their countries, I couldn't see Rania staying in it for the long haul. I could see the likes of Sofia and Silvia (those who have also married into their roles) staying on and representing Spain and Sweden but Rania, no. As soon as the perks are gone and cache of being a Queen are gone, Rania would be the first to bail.
