DUBAI: With preparations well underway for the royal wedding between Jordan’s Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah II and Saudi national Rajwa Al-Saif, it has been revealed that the religious ceremony will take place at Zahran Palace, Amman, on June 1, while the reception, to be attended by international heads of state and the Jordanian royal family, will take place at Al-Husseiniya Palace.
The venue of the religious ceremony is significant since the crown prince’s parents – King Abdullah II and Queen Raia – were also wed at the same palace in 1993.
The royals, who will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary on June 10, just days after their son’s wedding, left Zahran Palace as a married couple to take part in a procession through Amman.
Zahran Palace also played host to the wedding of King Hussein to Princess Muna Al-Hussein (then Antoinette Gardiner) – King Abdullah II’s parents – in 1961, as well the wedding of Jordan's former Crown Prince Hamzah Bin Al-Hussein and Princess Noor Hamzah.
Originally built in 1957, Zahran Palace was the home of the late Queen Zein Al Sharaf, mother of the late King Hussein.
