Prince William and Kate Middleton seen sitting at fourth row during Jordan’s Crown Prince Al Hussain and Princess Rajwa Alseif royal wedding. (Read More Here).
Prince William and Princess Catherine are in Jordan for a royal wedding.
They were greeted by King Abdullah II and Queen Rania. Their eldest son Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II married Rajwa Alseif.
The attendance of Prince William and Catherine had been kept secret and was only confirmed by Jordanian state media a few hours before the event.
A relatively intimate ceremony was held at the Zahran Palace in Amman, the location of King Abdullah II’s marriage in 1993 to Queen Rania, who was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents. Decades earlier, Abdullah’s father, the late King Hussein, married his second wife, the British citizen Antoinette Gardiner, in the same gardens.
Rajwa Alseif was born in Riyadh on April 28, 1994, the youngest of four children.
Her mother, Azza bint Nayef Abdulaziz Ahmad Al Sudairi, is related to Hussa bint Ahmed Al Sudairi, who is said to have been the favorite wife of Saudi Arabia’s founder, King Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, and gave birth to seven of his sons, including the country’s current ruler, King Salman.
For decades, the so-called Sudairi Seven, most of whom are now deceased, were seen as a major locus of power within the Saudi royal family. Alseif’s father, Khalid, is a member of the Subai, a prominent tribe in the Arabian Peninsula with ancient roots. He’s also the founder of El Seif Engineering Contracting, which built Riyadh’s iconic Kingdom Tower and other high-rises across the Middle East.
Rajwa studied architecture at Syracuse University in New York, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2017. A graduation video shows her receiving her degree in sparkling silver sneakers.
The bride and groom tied the knot surrounded by friends and family and dignitaries that include US first lady Jill Biden, Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate, and Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar. Members of the royal families of Belgium, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Japan also attended.
Hussein, a graduate of the Sandhurst military academy in the UK, wore military attire and sat next to his father before Rajwa arrived in a vintage Rolls-Royce, dressed in a white gown and diamond tiara.
Abdullah, 61, has been on the throne since 1999 and has long groomed his US-educated eldest son to succeed him. In the days leading up to the marriage, savvy and frenzied use of social media by the palace promoted the all-smiling family preparing for the big day. The palace introduced a wedding hashtag (#Celebrating Al Hussein) and shops in Jordan had been selling royal regalia for weeks.
The couple was escorted by a military band as it made its way through the streets of the capital.
Hussein and Al Saif stood in the open-roof and waved to cheering well-wishers on the side of the road. The Red Motorcade has its roots with the country’s founder, King Abdullah I, who would arrive at important events on a procession of white horses accompanied by riders dressed in blue pants and red blazers.
Today, the motorcade, consisting of eight bright red Land Rover vehicles and 11 motorcycles, is used on special occasions.
Motorcade members don full Jordanian military uniforms and the national red and white checkered headdress, known in Arabic as the shemagh.
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