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Originally posted by bluetortuga@Jun 30th, 2004 - 10:49 pm
I think KA and QR should leave QN alone and let her live in peace. I gather from the wedding QN has already "lost" one son. I can't understand Hamzah's behavior. It will come back to bite hime.
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I think you're right that Queen Noor has already lost Hamzah to Abdullah and Rania in that he has followed the scent of the power so to speak. To coin another tired phrase: Hamzah knows which side the bread is buttered. And sadly the power doesn't lie with his mother anymore. How he could drop his mother so easily for the
possibility of power and the role of King is beyond me. And I say possibility because I don't truly believe that he will be named King when Abdullah dies; I think in all likelihood Abdullah will appoint his own son to succeed him. Also, by all the accounts I have read, Noor was not a bad mother. She did not abandon him, abuse him or neglect him. She was in fact quite a doting and caring mother, and how he could turn his back on her now, especially since she has lost her husband (his father) whom she loved deeply, I will never understand.
He seems like such an ungrateful son for what he has done to Noor.
I don't think he realizes what an
asset his mother could be if she were more a part of his life. She is well liked and admired in Jordan (even if the present King and Queen think differently on this), and if power and the role of King is what Hamzah has his eyes on, I truly think that his mother could help him achieve this. She may not be able to make up Abdullah's mind for him and insist that he carry out his late father's dying wish, but I think that Noor could certainly convince some people among the Jordanian elite and powerful that Hamzah is right for the role of king and they in turn could sway Abdullah, or at least create a base of support amongst the powerful in Jordan for Hamzah's "side." Also, I think Noor's presence in Jordan at Hamzah's side would be a constant reminder to the Jordanian people of the late King Hussein, who was very loved and admired, and that it was his personal sentiment that Hamzah his 'favourite' son should one day be king.