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In Amman the royal wedding between the prince and the Saudi

2023-05-27T17:41:13.342Z

Highlights: Thursday future King Hussein marries Rajwa, love but also politics (ANSA). It is seven-pointed the white star of the Hashemites that even today, a century after the scorching defeat in the battle against the Saudis for control of a part of the Arabian Peninsula. Almost everything is ready to celebrate the long-awaited royal wedding in the luxurious Zahran palace, in the modern center of the Jordanian capital, where the late King Hussein married for the first time in 1955.


Thursday future King Hussein marries Rajwa, love but also politics (ANSA)


It is seven-pointed the white star of the Hashemites that even today, a century after the scorching defeat in the battle against the Saudis for control of a part of the Arabian Peninsula, will wave next Thursday, in Amman in Jordan, over the heads of the future King Hussein and the future Queen Rajwa, in a marriage described by many as useful both for the survival of the Jordanian royal house, and the expansion of Saudi influence in the Middle East.
Almost everything is ready to celebrate the long-awaited royal wedding in the luxurious Zahran palace, in the modern center of the Jordanian capital, where the late King Hussein, grandfather of the groom, married for the first time in 1955, where he met a few years later the Shah of Persia and where, exactly thirty years ago, in 1993, the current King Abdallah of Jordan, then prince, he married the current Queen Rania.
The banner of the Kingdom of Jordan is always there. It waves high and brings out the insignia of what was once the Hashemite kingdom of the Hijaz, erased between 1919 and 1925 by the conquests of Saudi forces, quartered in Sudair, a stronghold of the Nejd region. These were then led by the founder of the same kingdom who today, according to several observers, with the marriage between Prince Hussein and Rajwa, originally from Sudair's own mother, intends to extend its political influence far beyond the Arabian peninsula, lapping, through the Jordanian depth, the Mediterranean coast.
But in Amman there is an air of celebration. And for next Thursday - which in the Muslim week is pre-holiday and is equivalent to our Saturday - strict security measures are already ready. But the wedding of the Hashemite royals is above all a national and popular event.
For this reason, in some neighborhoods they have mounted maxi screens to allow the crowd to watch the wedding procession, 15 kilometers long and escorted - just as happened 30 years ago for the wedding of Abdallah and Rania - by the red Defender Land Rover of the Jordanian royal guard.
Hussein and Rajwa are the same age. She is from April and he from June 1994. And they did a study path in the United States, where they met. She, an architect, is the daughter of Khaled Saif, one of Saudi Arabia's most influential entrepreneurs, married to Azza Sudairi, of the clan that, over the decades, has dominated the Saudi royal house.
The Sudairi include both the current Saudi King Salman and his son, Muhamma ben Salman, crown prince and de facto leader of the Gulf oil kingdom. Exactly a century ago, the Saudis drove the Hashemites out of the Hejaz, a fertile coastal region of the Arabian Peninsula, where the holy cities of Mecca and Medina are located. In the turbulent years following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the end of the First World War, the Hashemites found shelter, thanks to the British, first in Syria, then in Iraq and then in the kingdom of Transjordan, present-day Jordan.
But only here have they withstood regional turmoil. Also thanks, according to observers, to a wise marriage strategy: King Abdallah married a Palestinian in 1993, the current Queen Rania. Their eldest daughter, Princess Iman, last March, married a Venezuelan of Greek origin, who converted to Islam to meet the needs of the court. And now Prince Hussein, future king of Jordan, is marrying the Saudi-sudairi Rajwa.


Source: ansa

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