Princess Iman bint Al Hussein | |||||
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Born | King Hussein Medical Center, Amman, Jordan | 24 April 1983||||
Spouse | Zaid Azmi Mirza (m. 2013;div. 2017) | ||||
Issue | Omar Mirza | ||||
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House | Hashemite | ||||
Father | Hussein of Jordan | ||||
Mother | Lisa Halaby |
Jordanian royal family |
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Princess Iman bint Al Hussein (born 24 April 1983) is a Jordanian princess.
On 24 April 1983, Princess Iman was born at King Hussein Medical Center in Amman, Jordan. Princess Iman is the daughter of King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan. [1] She is the half-sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan, Princess Alia, Prince Faisal, Princess Aisha, Princess Zein, Princess Haya, Prince Ali, and sister of Prince Hamzah, Prince Hashem, and Princess Raiyah. [2]
Princess Iman studied at Garrison Forest School in Baltimore, Maryland, the Fay School in Massachusetts and the Maret School in Washington, D.C. She joined the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2002 and finished her training there on 8 August 2003. [3] She enrolled at American University in Washington, D.C. in 2003 and graduated in 2007 with a degree in Sociology.
On 20 December 2012, the Royal Court of Jordan announced Princess Iman's engagement to businessman Zaid Azmi Mirza. [4] [5] They married on 22 March 2013. [6] [7] She gave birth to a son, Omar, on 7 October 2014. The couple divorced in 2017. She is currently married to Joseph Roland Yax and in 2023 gave birth to her second son, Hashem.
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