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Only a $15-a-week steno when she sailed from London two years ago, Toni Avril Gardiner, 21, was back home again. As Princess Muna al Hussein, wife of Jordan's King Hussein, she checked into the palatial Dorchester Hotel with 27 satchels of finery, then toured the town in a murmuring maroon Bentley with a Scotland Yard escort on a shopping expedition to buy toys for her five-month-old son. And wasn't it fun to lunch at Buckingham Palace? Said the Princess: "I just hope I don't drop anything-any of those forks...
Born. To King Hussein of Jordan, 26, and Muna al Hussein (the former Toni Avril Gardiner), 20, daughter of a British army colonel: their first child, a son, whom they named Abdullah after his great-grandfather, the first King of Jordan; in Amman. Long distressed because he had no male offspring-his previous marriage to Egypt's Princess Dina produced only one daughter-the grateful Hussein promptly rewarded his commoner wife by raising her to the rank of Princess...
Relief from Cares. In the three weeks since Hussein's surprise engagement announcement, his Cabinet and the strong-minded Queen Mother Zain had tried hard to talk him out of the idea. Not that anybody objected to the girl personally. At 20, Toni Avril Gardiner is modestly pretty, modestly sized (4 in. shorter than Hussein's 5 ft. 6 in.), modestly educated (like Hussein, she never went to college)-in many ways a better match than Hussein's first wife, Queen Dina, who was taller, seven years older, and holder of an M.A. from Cambridge. Hussein...
Married. King Hussein of Jordan, 25, and Toni Avril Gardiner, 20; he for the second time, she for the first; in Amman, Jordan (see THE WORLD...
...cause of the furor is 20-year-old, blue-eyed, chestnut-haired Toni Avril Gardiner. Granddaughter of a shepherd and daughter of an army officer, Toni was born in Suffolk, educated in Anglican schools in England except for a three-year sojourn in Malaya (1955-58), when her father put in a stint in Kuala Lumpur. After finishing high school, Toni went to work as a payroll clerk for London's Peak Engineering Co. But, as one company official tactfully explained, "her calculations were rather erratic," and she ended up on the telephone switchboard...