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Originally posted by QueenB@Jun 30th, 2004 - 11:17 pm
But Hamzah clearly - whether it's right or wrong - wants to be King... that statement of his before the Wedding Ceremony that it would be a small, lower scale ceremony because he's in solidarity with the Iraqis and Palestinians, is a public relations statement if I've ever heard one - even if it was truly heartfelt - only he knows that - but what a smart thing to say..... because when people start to look at that statement in comparison with the statements on expensive vacations, cars, planes and couture..... people will certainly see his 'gesture' as something someone 'in touch' would say.
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But, QueenB, did you really "buy" this? I thought it was nice that C.P. Hamzah acknowledged the ugly plight of the world and, in particular, the region at this time, but taking almost a year to plan your wedding ceremony using British wedding planners, inviting thousands of people to it, and spreading it over days--well the talk just didn't match the walk, in my estimation. If that was the toned down version, what would the extravagant version have looked like? So I didn't really give that much credence, except to note the inconsistency.
I'm a little confused about QN's parenting skills. Clearly the stepchildren, right or wrong, feel that she wasn't the best. I happen to think the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle and that QN probably wasn't as good a parent to them as she could've been, but she probably didn't suck at it as much as they would like us to believe, either. With her biological children, perhaps she did better. But in her "Vanity Fair" interview in 1999, she admits that she wasn't very much into parenting. She said she always put her husband and the needs of her country first and that she relied on extended family members and nannies to look after her children while she was traveling the world. It seems like a fairly honest self assessment, in which case she probably isn't as close to her children now as a lot of mothers might be. But it does seem to me that losing her husband and most of her role in Jordan has given her the time and the will to spend more time with her children. Good for her. But I just can't figure out why C.P. Hamzah is choosing to behave as he does. Why is his career path more important than his mother? It's deeply troubling to me, and it breaks my heart each time I see photos of or read news articles about another QN snubbing.
