you have a good memory , as we notice only Jordanians knew that, everybody else read about Jordan from out side
i have this paper .... which say that PA was the CP after PHassan for a while, removing him was CONCERTED from people who hated QA and her children
http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Jordan/jordan3.htm
3) Lieutenant-Colonel H.R.H. Prince 'Ali bin al-Hussein, KCVO (6.11.2001).
b. at Amman, 23rd December 1975 (
s/o Queen 'Aliya),
educ. Papplewick Prep. Sch., Ascot; Islamic Scientific Coll., Amman; Salisbury Sch. and Deerfield Acad., Massachusetts; RMA, Sandhurst; Princeton Univ., New Jersey, and Columbia Univ., Washington DC, USA. Cmsnd. 2nd Lieut. Jordan Arab Army Special Forces. 9/12/1994, Chief Cdr. the King's Special Security Force 2001.
Appointed Deputy Crown Prince, 8th June 1978. Hon. Presdt. Al-Jeel Al-Jadeed Club (to promote Circassian culture in Jordan), Jordan Football Assoc., Prince 'Ali Club for the Deaf and Mute, and Royal Jordanian Paratroopers Club.
Rcvd: GC of the Orders of Hussein ibn 'Ali, and the Star of Jordan, Dannebrog of Denmark (27.4.1998), Norwegian Order of Merit (4.4.2000), Polar Star of Sweden (7.10.2003), etc.
m. at Paris, France, 23rd April 2004 (
nikah) and at the Bait al-Barakat Palace, Amman, 7th September 2004 (
zifaf), H.R.H. Princess Rym (
b. 1969),
educ. Univ. of Paris (MLit, Dip. Advanced Studies in Political Science), and Columbia Univ., New York, sometime employee of the BBC French Service, UPI, Dubai TV and Bloomberg TV, news correspondent for CNN since 1998, daughter of H.E. Dr Lakhdar Brahimi, sometime Algerian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Assist. Sec-Gen of the UN and UN Special Representative to Haiti, South Africa, Zaire, Yemen, Liberia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, by his wife, a lady of Croatian descent. He has issue, one daughter:
- a) H.R.H. Princess Jalila bint 'Ali. b. at Amman, 16th September 2005.
and this one too ..
In June 1978, Hussein designated Prince Ali (b. 1975), his son from his third wife (Queen Alia, who was killed in a helicopter crash in February 1977) to succeed Hasan as heir apparent on the latter's succession to the throne.
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:l20pzDOkiNYJ:www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-7444.html+prince+Ali+of+jordan+crown+prince&hl=ar