Leap of faith memoirs of an unexpected life
Queen Noor.
- 1st ed.
- New York Miramax Books c2003.
- xi, 467 p., [16] p. of plates ill. (some col.) 24 cm.
Includes index.
First impressions -- Roots -- Tehran journal -- Audience with the King -- Leap of faith -- Honeymoon at Gleneagles -- Young bride in the royal houeshold -- Pomp and circumstance -- One crisis after another -- America through new eyes -- At home and abroad -- "Women hold up half the sky" -- Parenthood -- Growing pains -- Prelude to war -- Fire in the Gulf -- Test of faith -- Day like no other -- Edge of the Abyss -- White bird -- Skies cried.
Sharing a personal perspective on the past three decades of world history, Queen Noor talks frankly of the many challenges of her life as wife and partner to the monarch, providing both an intimate portrait of the late King Hussein and a moving account of their public role.
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Noor Queen, consort of Hussein, King of Jordan 1951- Hussein, King of Jordan. King of Jordan 1935-