Word: zain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...British, daughter of the British lieutenant colonel who is Hussein's anti-bomb officer. And British influence in Jordan has been a sensitive issue to Arabs ever since Winston Churchill created Jordan after World War I and handed it to the Hashemites. Hussein's Cabinet and Queen Zain flatly refused to okay the marriage. Stubbornly, a smitten Hussein threatened to abdicate in favor of his neurotic younger brother Mohammed. The Cabinet preferred even Toni to Mohammed, but still threatened to resign if the marriage went through. Finally Hussein made a concession: his bride would not be Queen...