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...figure much like Princess Diana. But Rania has good relations with her mother-in-law--actually, both mothers-in-law. British-born PRINCESS MUNA, King Hussein's second wife and Abdullah's mom, saw the political worth of a Palestinian princess in a country two-thirds Palestinian. QUEEN NOOR, who won hearts for consoling royals and ordinary citizens, is also close to Rania, which is just as well. They will share the title of queen...
...figure much like Princess Diana. But Rania has good relations with her mother-in-law -- actually, both mothers-in-law. British-born Princess Muna, King Hussein?s second wife and Abdullah?s mom, saw the political worth of a Palestinian princess in a country two-thirds Palestinian. Queen Noor, who won hearts for consoling royals and ordinary citizens, is also close to Rania, which is just as well. They will share the title of queen...
...missteps and Hussein's obsession with his legacy put Abdullah in charge. In 1992, as the King recuperated from his first bout with cancer, he returned home ready to abdicate. Buoyed by a hero's welcome and upset by a slanderous whispering campaign against his American-born wife Queen Noor, for which he held Hassan's court responsible, he changed his mind...
...succeed Hassan. He was furious when Hassan said the matter should wait until he became King, leaving the door open to name his son Rashid. Just before Hussein was found to have cancer again last year, the King signaled that he favored Hamzah, 18, the eldest son of Queen Noor, to become second in line...
Then, undergoing treatment in the U.S. for the past six months, Hussein was stung by reports of intrigue and ambition back home. Princess Sarvath, Hassan's wife, was moving furniture around the palace. The King also seemed to blame her, palace sources say, for more rumors smearing Noor, like the tale that Noor was a Jew, even a relative of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. "When my fever was getting high," Hussein later said, "some people thought it was their chance...