Queen Rania of Jordan is mourning the death of his father Faisal Al-Yasin, who passed away last Friday at the age of 88. “Dear dad, rest in peace», Wrote the sovereign posting on Instagram a photo in which the man smiles happily. King Abdallah II for his part he proclaimed seven days of mourning and a press release was issued in which he expressed his sorrow for the death of Faisal, grandfather of Rania’s four children: the crown prince HusseinPrincess ImánPrincess Bodyand the prince Hashem.
Faisal Al Yasin, born in 1934 in the West Bank, a medical degree from Cairo University and a major in surgery and paediatrics in Northern Ireland, in 1961, when working in Kuwait, became one of the first Arab doctors to obtain a license to be able to open your own clinic. It was in Kuwait that Faisal Al-Yasin and his wife Ilham Yassin had their three children: Dina, Rania and Magdi.
The news of Faisal’s death, for unspecified causes, comes at a difficult time for the Jordanian court. King Abdallah in recent days was operated on for a herniated disc in Germany, but it is above all the court intrigues that worry the sovereign. In 2021 the step brother Hamzah bin Husseinson of the late King Hussein and his fourth wife Noor, was arrested for a coup attempt against Abdullah II. Hamzah wanted to take back the place she considered him to be. In fact, after King Hussein’s death in 1999, Abdullah had stripped him of the title of crown prince to assign him to his son Hussein.
Last March Hamzah got it publicly apologized to his stepbrother saying he is ready to renounce the title of prince. “I was wrong, Your Majesty, and to be wrong is human “, reads a long letter posted on Twitter. “Therefore, I am responsible for the positions I have taken and for the crimes I have committed against Your Majesty and our country in recent years, culminating in the events of the sedition case. Seeking your Majesty’s forgivenessknowing that you have always been very forgiving ». Forgiveness refused. With a letter to the Jordanian people in which he detailed the “destructive behavior” of his stepbrother, the sovereign a few days ago said he was convinced that Hamzah “will never change”. Therefore the decree with which he punished him after the conspiracy – confining him to his palace and limiting his contacts with the outside world – remains in force. King Abdullah said he will provide his stepbrother Hamza “with everything he needs to ensure a decent life”. But he will not give him back “the space he used to undermine the country, its institutions and his family and to endanger the stability of Jordan”.
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Source: Vanity Fair
