Meet Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan and his new bride: Queen Rania’s son will wed Rajwa Al Saif, the daughter of a Saudi billionaire – with European royals and other A-listers on the guest list
- Jordan’s Queen Rania threw a henna party for the women of both families ahead of the nuptials where her future daughter-in-law wore Saudi designer Honayda’s couture dress that took 1,100 hours to make
- Hussein graduated from Georgetown University while Al Saif studied architecture in New York, and the pair met through a friend; and Prince William and Kate Middleton might attend their wedding …
June 1 will mark the Jordanian royal wedding of Crown Prince Hussein and his bride Rajwa Al Saif!
Here’s what you need to know about the young royal couple ahead of their nuptials.
Meet Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan …
According to People magazine, Hussein, 28, is a captain in the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army and a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, England. He is also an international history graduate of the prestigious Georgetown University in Washington DC. In a profile by the World Economic Forum, the prince is linked to various initiatives through his Crown Prince Foundation.
He was pivotal in the Nasa internship initiative, which provided Jordanian youth the chance to intern at Nasa. This led interns to establish the CubeSat programme and its design of the JY1-Sat, which helped develop Jordan’s first satellite launched into space.
… and his bride Rajwa Al Saif
Al Saif got her bachelor’s of architecture degree from Syracuse University in New York. People magazine reports she also studied at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, US. She worked for a brief period in the US and then moved back to Riyadh to work at the Design Experience Studio.
After she gets married, she will be known as Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Jordan and when Hussein takes the crown, she will be Queen Rajwa.