Jordan rift snares U.S.-born queen
Queen Noor treads carefully as son, his half brother feud By Laura King and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Published: April 9, 2021, 4:07pm
Share: Jordan s Prince Hamza left, with his mother Queen Noor, right, stand together May 27, 2004, during his wedding ceremony in Amman, Jordan. (Hussein Malla/Associated Press)
At age 27, she married a king. By 47, sooner than she had thought possible, she was a royal widow.
Now, more than two decades later, Jordan’s Queen Noor – the American-born, Princeton-educated former Lisa Halaby – is caught up in a palace drama surrounding her eldest son, the prince she had hoped would eventually follow his charismatic father, the late King Hussein, onto the throne of the Hashemite Kingdom.
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At age 27, she married a king. By 47, sooner than she had thought possible, she was a royal widow.
Now, more than two decades later, Jordan’s Queen Noor the American-born, Princeton-educated former Lisa Halaby is caught up in a palace drama surrounding her eldest son, the prince she had hoped would eventually follow his charismatic father, the late King Hussein, onto the throne of the Hashemite Kingdom.
Whether lifted from Shakespeare or next up in the video-streaming queue, the story’s plotline seems oddly familiar: the traumatic circumstances of a royal death reverberating down through the years, family tensions simmering quietly for a generation before bursting into full view.