Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II
Born in Amman on June 28, 1994, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was named in honor of his grandfather; His Late Majesty King Hussein bin Talal, the founder of modern Jordan.
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein Bin Abdullah II is the 42nd generation direct descendant of Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon him). The Crown Prince is the eldest son of His Majesty King Abdullah II and Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, and has one brother, His Royal Highness Prince Hashem, and two sisters, Their Royal Highnesses Princess Iman and Princess Salma. The bespectacled Hussein had been largely kept from the public eye, appearing only in official family photographs with his three siblings.
HRH the Crown Prince, who holds the rank of first lieutenant in the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army, graduated in 2017 from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom. HRH completed his High School education at King’s Academy, Jordan in 2012, and attained a university degree in International History at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C in 2016.
Jordan had been without a Crown Prince since November 28, 2004, when King Abdullah's half brother Hamza was stripped of the title. Many Jordanians saw this as a betrayal of King Hussein's deathbed wish that one of Queen Noor's sons also be in line for the throne. HRH was named Crown Prince by Royal Decree on July 2, 2009. The move was long anticipated. Online news sites and the Amman rumor mill expected that the King would announce the designation during the celebrations marking the ten-year anniversary of his rule on June 9 -- an assumption that turned out to be false. There is little indication of why the King chose to make the announcement at this time or in the relatively quiet manner of a royal decree released after close of business at the end of the work week rather than with a public ceremony or speech. The Crown Prince accompanies His Majesty King Abdullah II on his visits across the kingdom to ensure the wellbeing of citizens, and on several official and military missions, as well as other functions at home and abroad. His Royal Highness has also been appointed as Regent several times during His Majesty’s travels abroad.
HRH has launched many important initiatives through the Crown Prince Foundation, most notably:
Haqiq initiative, a national leadership program which aims to enhance, develop, enrich and help youth reach their full potential as productive leaders and caring citizens, and advocates for volunteerism in the country; NASA internship initiative that provides Jordanian youth with an opportunity to intern at NASA, which led the first interns to establish “CubeSat” program and its design of “JY1-SAT”-Jordan’s first satellite that will be launched into space in 2018; HRH also launched MASAR initiative to inspire and address youth’s passion for innovation in space technology; “Hearing without Borders” initiative that seeks to treat deaf children through cochlear implants and provide specialized rehabilitation, training and education for the recipients, their families and rehabilitation specialists.
In April 2015, HRH the Crown Prince presided over the United Nations Security Council’s open debate on the role of youth in countering violent extremism and promoting peace, making him the youngest person ever to chair a meeting at the Security Council. As a result and under the guidance and direction of HRH, Jordan hosted the first Global Forum on Youth, Peace and Security in August 2015, which presented the Amman Youth Declaration. In December of 2015, these efforts were crowned by the United Nations Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security; the first of its kind, which calls for mechanisms that would enable youth to participate meaningfully in peace processes and dispute resolution echoing the calls from the Amman Youth Declaration.
Jordan’s 11 million residents watched the young crown prince rise in prominence in recent years, as he increasingly joined his father, Abdullah, in public appearances. Hussein graduated from Georgetown University, joined the military and gained some global recognition speaking at the UN General Assembly.
His wedding 01 June 2023 — Jordan’s biggest royal event in decades — marked his next crucial rite of passage. It was not just a marriage, it’s the presentation of the future king of Jordan. The issue of the crown prince has been closed. The marriage of Crown Prince Hussein, 28, and Saudi architect Rajwa Alseif, 29, drew a star-studded guest list. She descends from the Al Sudayri family of Najd in what became modern day Saudi Arabia, known to be closely linked to the Saudi royal family. She studied architecture at Syracuse University in New York.
Palace officials turned the event – a week after Jordan’s 77th birthday – into something of a PR campaign. Zahran Palace in Amman, where the marriage ceremony was held, hasn’t seen such pomp and circumstance since 1993, when, on a similarly sunny June day, Abdullah married Rania, who was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents. Decades earlier, Abdullah's father, the late King Hussein, sealed his vows in the same garden with his second wife, the British citizen Antoinette Gardiner. Young volunteers in the Crown Prince Foundation’s initiatives form the Jordanian flag as part of the wedding procession of Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Al Hussein and Princess Rajwa Al Hussein heading from Zahran Palace to Al Husseiniya Palace.
In addition to including Britain's Prince William and his wife Princess Kate, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the guest list included an array of foreign aristocrats and dignitaries, including senior royals from Europe and Asia, as well as US climate envoy John Kerry and US First Lady Jill Biden. Other notable guests included the Netherlands’ King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima, as well as Belgium’s King Philippe and Crown Princess Elisabeth and Danish Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary. Other attendees include Saudi aristocrats, as Alseif’s mother comes from the same influential family as the late mother of King Salman. Her billionaire father owns a major construction firm in the kingdom.
The marriage was an advantageous alliance for the Hashemites, historic rivals of the Al Saud family to the east. Jordan has recently sought closer ties with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab petro-states, which once doled out billions of dollars to the aid-dependent country but since have reined in their spending.
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