Jordan announces wedding date of crown prince to Saudi fiancée
Jordan's royal court has announced a June wedding date for Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah II and his Saudi fiancee Rajwa Al-Saif
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Crown Prince Husseing got engaged to Rajwa Al-Seif in Riyadh in August last year [Getty/archive]
The Royal Hashemite Court of Jordan has announced the date of the crown prince’s wedding to his Saudi fiancée.
Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah II and Rajwa Al-Saif will tie the knot on 1 June 2023, the announcement said.
يسر الديوان الملكي الهاشمي أن يعلن أنه سيتم، بعون الله وتوفيقه، عقد قران صاحب السمو الملكي الأمير الحسين بن عبدالله الثاني ولي العهد المعظم على الآنسة رجوة خالد السيف، في الثاني عشر من ذي القعدة عام 1444 هجري، الموافق للأول من حزيران عام 2023 ميلادي #الأردن pic.twitter.com/HKS4RV8cAO
— RHC (@RHCJO) December 31, 2022
The two got engaged in August last year, in a ceremony hosted in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
Al-Saif studied at Syracuse University's School of Architecture in New York state. Her father is Khalid bin Musaed Al-Saif, a businessman, and her mother is Azza bint Naif Al-Sudairi.
Hussein, who has been the Jordanian crown prince since 2009, attended Sandhurst – a prestigious military academy in the UK.
The prince, who is a captain in Jordan's military, has an international history degree from Georgetown, a highly regarded American university.
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