Thursday, February 28, 2008

Queen Rania of Jordan


Rania Al-Yasin was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents from Tulkarm.She met Jordanian King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, then Prince, at a dinner party in January 1993. Two months later, they announced their engagement and on June 10, 1993, they were married. They have four children:Queen Rania has been an outspoken advocate of women's rights. She was awarded the honorary rank of colonel in the Jordanian Armed Forces by her husband, King Abdullah, on June 9, 2004.
She was named the third most beautiful woman in the world in the 2005 top 100 of Harpers & Queen magazine. In addition, she was the youngest queen in the world at the time King Abdullah succeeded to the throne. She makes many public appearances, including a half-hour television interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show on May 17, 2006, where she spoke about misconceptions about Islam and women's role in Islam.[1] In May of 2000, she was named an honorary member of Deerfield Academy's class of 2000 (her husband's alma mater).
Current Status: Queen Rania Al Abdullah

Issues: 4

one of my most fav beauties-- HRH Soraya


Soraya Esfandiary (b. June 22, 1932 - d. October 26, 2001) was the second wife and Queen consort of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.
Though her husband's title,
Shahanshah (King of Kings), is the equivalent of emperor, it was not until 1967 that a complementary feminine title, Shahbanu, was created to designate the wife of a Shah. Until then, wives of Shahs, including Soraya, bore the title Maleke , though in the popular press they frequently and incorrectly were called Empress.


Soraya was introduced to the recently divorced Shah in Paris in 1948 by Forough Zafar Bakhtiari, a relative, when she was still a student at a Swiss finishing school.[2] Soon engaged (the Shah gave her a 22.37 carat (4.474 g) diamond engagement ring).[3]
She married him at
Golestan Palace in Tehran on February 12, 1951; originally, the couple had planned to wed on 27 December 1950, but the ceremony had to be postponed due to the bride being ill.[4]
Though the Shah announced that guests should donate money to a special charity for the Iranian poor, among the wedding gifts was a mink coat and a desk set with black diamonds sent by
Joseph Stalin, a Steuben glass Bowl of Legends designed by Sidney Waugh and sent by U.S. President and Mrs. Truman, and silver Georgian candlesticks from King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, [5], and the 2,000 guests included Aga Khan III.
The ceremony was decorated with 1.5 tonnes of orchids, tulips, and carnations, sent by plane from the
Netherlands, and entertainment included an equestrian circus sent from Rome.[6] The bride wore a silver lamé gown studded with pearls and trimmed with marabou feathers[7], designed for the occasion by Christian Dior. She also wore a full-length female white-mink cape.


Though the wedding took place during a heavy snow, deemed a good omen, the imperial couple's marriage had disintegrated by early 1958 over Soraya's apparent infertility, for which she had sought treatment in Switzerland and France, and the Shah's suggestion that he take a second wife in order to produce an heir.[8] She left Iran in February and eventually went to her parents' home in Cologne, Germany, where the Shah sent his wife's uncle Senator Sardar Assad Bakhtiari in early March 1958, in a failed attempt to convince her to return to Iran.[9] On 10 March, a council of advisors met with the Shah to discuss the situation of the troubled marriage and the lack of an heir.[10] Four days later, it was announced that the imperial couple would divorce. It was, the 25-year-old queen said, "a sacrifice of my own happiness."[11] She later told reporters that her husband had no choice but to divorce her.[12]

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

HRH LALLA



Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Salma Bennani is the consort of His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco. She is the first wife of a Moroccan ruler to have been publicly acknowledged and given a royal title. Princess Lalla Salma received a degree in computer science and she is now 27 years old. She paid a private visit to Thailand once in July 2005, following a private visit here by the King of Morocco in 2002. His Royal Highness Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn visited Morocco in 1994.