Queen Alia thread part 1

[Banadoora]

I've heard that King Hussein cheated on Q Noor in 1992 with a Jordanian reporter. They also said that the king went to the woman's house to ask her parents for her hands in marriage. The rumours were denied by both the king and the queen. Q Noor also mentioned this briefly in her autobiography, saying that they were false rumours. I don't know if he cheated on any of his wives. I just know that he married Q Alia within days after his divorce from Princess Muna. As for Q Dina, I haven't heard much about his marriage with her other than that it was a complete mismatch and that it was arranged.


PS. Could someone PPLLLLEEEEEAASE show me how to post pictures on here! I know that I have to attach them but I don't know how!

[salma]

Wedding of Alia Toukan and King Hussein of Jordan, December 24th 1972. This day was the birthday of Alia, she 24 years-old.

[salma]

It was in Cairo on the 25th of December 1948 that Alia Baha Uddin Toukan was born, her father being the Jordanian Ambassador to Egypt. Alia was one year old when King Hussein first saw her. The King was thirteen years old and was on his way to attend Victoria College in Egypt. He used to spend the school holidays and most of the weekends at the Ambassador’s residence where, as he told me later, he used to play with my mother and help my Grandmother Hanan Toukan babysitting her!

Alia moved with her family from one country to another as her father changed his Diplomatic appointments throughout her childhood. She attended different schools and consequently learned several languages and made many friends. As the Toukan family settled in Rome for five years, she attended the University of Loyola in Rome where she studied Political Science and graduated with a degree before moving back to Jordan. There, at a wedding of the “Maadi” family, my Father saw my Mother again after many years. She and her family arrived late at the wedding. My Father was already seated, next to His Royal Highness Sharif Zeid Bin Shaker. As she came in, he turned to ask him who she was. Sharif Zeid answered him, “That’s Alia Toukan! Baha’s daughter.” He went over to her and told her that just the thought he was, not long ago, playing with her when she was only one year old at the Jordanian Embassy in Cairo made him feel so old! As they were chatting, he was asked to open the buffet. He asked her, in turn, if she would join him. She agreed and they opened the buffet together. That incident was the start of their re-aquaintence. They kept in touch and their friendship developed throughout her father’s next appointment to New York. In NY, she attended Hunter College and graduated with a Masters Degree in Business and Public Relations, and a minor degree in Psychology. Her dream at that time was to be a diplomat like her father.

That was a dream that would come true in a way, but perhaps not the way she thought it would. After the return of the Toukan family from New York to Amman, Alia started work in “Alia Airlines” in the Public Relations Department. She had worked there for two months, when King Hussein requested her to organise the Water Ski Championships in Aqaba, which was sponsored by “Alia Airlines” (note Alia Airlines is named after King Hussein’s eldest daughter HRH Princess Alia Bint Al Hussein.) Alia, my mother, took control and organized the whole event, together with Simon Khoury,the Lebanese World Champion in Water Skiing. He was a good friend of my father, and was based in Aqaba. Six months later, King Hussein was engaged to Alia Baha Uddin Toukan. After a four-month engagement period they were married, on the 24th of December 1971,one day before my mother’s birthday. December would be our lucky month especially that HRH Prince Ali was also born in December (1975). So we have three consecutive days of celebrations in December: the 23rd, Ali’s birthday; the 24th, my parents wedding anniversary and the 25th, my mother’s birthday. It was an on going joke in our house that it was lucky my father, Abir, and I had birthdays in other months just to find a reason for celebration at a different time of the year.

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[mahawi]

Hi everybody I just wanted to add something that will show you how queen alia felt when she was a queen.

I read once a book called 'the first lady' by a famous Arabic writer named Anis mansour.
Any way, the book was about famous first ladies all over the world .in the chapter of the wife of prime minister of Canada in the seventies Margaret Trudeau He mentioned queen alia in it because she was her friend ,in a letter she sent to queen alia which expressed how depressed she was and how her husband is so far away ,queen alia replied..

I've read your letter and I felt as if I was talking to my self. It's the same misery, lonesome inside of me and lies surrounding me, and it's hard to have our own friends, but u are much better than me.. Your husband well leave politics and come back to you but my husband is busy with forever politics.....till he dies


She later say an advice…. when your husband is way..Shout ….break …scream. ..cry ..cry…. because in that you will feel comfort .I've tried it, I felted better and made others feel that too ..

Of course everybody knows that in the seventies Jordan been through many crises and king Hussein was saved from many assassination plans.

thats very sad isn't it :(

[Josefine]

what year was she boen and what year did she die?

[salma]

she born in 1948 and died in 1976.

[mahawi]

hi banadoora ''i like your name'',well to send pictures u have two ways ,u can press on the img button and then write down the url which u can cut and past ,or u can can attach a file from your computer in the small box down there, in my arabic computer they called it 'استعراض' ,i hope iam right ,any way good luck :P

[Banadoora]

Aaah! Thank you mahawi! :flower: I think that I was having some problems uploading this picture from my computer! I hope it works though.

Anyways, this is Q Alia with K Hussein in Amman, January 6th 1975.

[Banadoora]

With Haya and Abeer.

[Banadoora]

With Haya.

[salma]

Banadoora she´s Muna with Zein and Aisha.

[salma]

Banadoora what you can put the images fron corbis I can´t.
:flower:

[Banadoora]

Salma, I think you're right!! It is muna with aisha and zein. The info on corbis said that it was alia with her family.

[mahawi]

your very welcome banadoora

[Josefine]

thank you for the pictures and info

[Laura Lovec]

Are there more pictures of the late queen Alia ? and where can I find a good site about queen Alia ?

Thanks in advance

[maryshawn]

There used to be a nice site--only one I could find--at Princess Haya's Team Harmony site. It was down for awhile. May be up again. Worth a try.

BTW, thank you all who have posted these lovely photos......keep posting when you can. I think Alia was a great queen and a lovely person.