Queen alia biography

Queen of Jordan from 1972 to 1977

Alia Bahauddin Toukan (Arabic: علياء بهاء الدين طوقان, romanized: 'Āliyā' Bahāʾ ud-Dīn Ṭūqān; 25 December 1948 – 9 February 1977), also known as Alia Al Hussein (Arabic: علياء الحسين),^[1] was Queen of Jordan as the third wife of King Hussein from their marriage on 24 December 1972 until her death in a helicopter crash in 1977.

Background

Alia Toukan was born on 25 December 1948 in Cairo, Egypt,^[1][2] the daughter of Baha Toukan and his wife Hanan Hashim. Her mother, a home-maker, was a grandniece of Ibrahim HashimPasha, and her father was a diplomat.^[2] At the time of Alia's birth, he was the ambassador of Jordan to the Court of St James's (United Kingdom), Italy, Turkey and Egypt all at once.^[3][4] Toukan, a close confidant of King Abdullah I of Jordan, had previously helped write the Jordanian Constitution in 1952, and had served as Jordan's first Ambas