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...Karts & Fast Cars. Despite his tight control over the kingdom, Hussein is refreshingly unlike a King. With his blue-eyed British wife Toni, renamed after their marriage Muna al Hussein (Desired of Hussein), and blue-eyed, eleven-month-old Crown Prince Abdullah, he relishes domestic life in a modern, eight-room villa called Daret Alkair (House of Happiness) outside Amman. He loves speed, races his Aston Martin and Ferrari autos at 100 m.p.h., recently landed a Boeing 720 jet at Amman Airport. He Go-Karts so often with Muna that one diplomat became expert at the sport just to keep...
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...
...probably get along famously at one of the hen parties that are among the most onerous burdens of Queens and Presidents' wives. All but two could gossip in English and in French. Jacqueline Kennedy and the Empress Farah are both amateur painters of competence. Jordan's Princess Muna and Brazil's Maria Tereza Goulart both think Frank Sinatra is the most. They are fond of serious music; almost all play the piano. Iran's Farah, the Ivory Coast's Marie-Thérèse Houphouet-Boigny and Monaco's Princess Grace...
Hussein's choice of an English bride was strongly opposed by the Queen Mother, and widely unpopular among the British-hating Palestinian refugees who comprise two-thirds of the population, but the King refused to change his mind. Muna, as he calls her, has yet to be named Queen. She was shot by Photographer Halsman not far from a cage filled with birds. Said he: "I felt she was like that...
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...