Princess Noor bint Asem ( ar, نور بنت عاصم; born 6 October 1982) is a member of the Jordanian Royal Family.

Family

Her father is

Prince Asem bin Al Nayef Prince Asem bin Nayef ( ar, الأمير عاصم بن نايف; born 27 April 1948) is the son of Prince Nayef bin Abdullah (a younger son of Abdullah I of Jordan) and Princess Mihrimah Sultan (granddaughter of Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Em ...

, a grandson of King

Abdullah I of Jordan AbdullahI bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبد الله الأول بن الحسين, translit=Abd Allāh al-Awwal bin al-Husayn, 2 February 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the ruler of Jordan from 11 April 1921 until his assassination in 1951. He was the Emir ...

and her mother is

Firouzeh Vokhshouri Firouzeh Vokhshouri is a Jordanian diplomat and former member of the Jordanian royal family. She was married to Prince Asem bin Nayef from 1974 through 1985. Career Vokhshouri has been an attaché at the Jordanian Embassy in Madrid Madri ...

. Her mother lives in

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, Spain, where she is an

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for the Jordanian Embassy. Princess Noor's parents divorced in 1985 and in 1986 her father married

Princess Sana Asem Princess Sana'a Asem (née Sana Kalimat; born 16 November 1960) is a Jordanian princess due to her marriage to Prince Asim bin Nayef and she has Circassian origin. She is the daughter of Adnan Mawloud Kalimat (d. on 12 September 2019), leade ...

Education

Having studied her IGCSE's and A Levels at Kings College, Madrid, Spain, she then went on to graduate with a bachelor's degree in Political Communication from

Emerson College Emerson College is a private college with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. It also maintains campuses in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and Well, Limburg, Netherlands ( Kasteel Well). Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a ...

in 2004, then a master's degree in Positive Leadership and Strategy in 2016 from IE Business School of Behavior and Social Sciences, Madrid.

Marriages

On 29 August 2003, the Royal Jordanian Court announced Princess Noor's

marriage Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between ...

Prince Hamzah bin Hussein Hamzah bin Hussein, ( ar, حمزة بن الحسين; born 29 March 1980) is the fourth son of King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan overall and the first by his American-born fourth wife, Queen Noor. He was named Crown Prince of Jordan in 1999, a ...

, her second cousin, had taken place. The marriage ceremony was held at al-Baraka Palace in Amman. The celebration of the marriage ( Zifaf) was held on 27 May 2004 at

Zahran Palace Zahran Palace (قصر زهران) is a palace in Amman, Jordan built in 1957 and has hosted many royal events such as the wedding of the current King and Queen of Jordan This is a list of the women who have been queen consort of the Hashemite ...

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

. The marriage produced one daughter, Princess Haya bint Hamzah (born 18 April 2007). The couple divorced on 9 September 2009, although the divorce was not confirmed by the Royal Jordanian Court until an announcement in March 2010. Thereafter, Princess Noor reverted to the use of her maiden name Princess Noor bint Asem. In March 2018, Princess Noor officially announced her engagement to Saudi businessman and horse breeder

Amr Zedan Amr F. Zedan (born 17 September 1974) is a Saudi Arabian businessmana serial venture capital investor thoroughbred horse breeder, and the Chairman of thSaudi Polo Federation Education Zedan obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial e ...

, the future owner of the disqualified

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winner,

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. The couple were married at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre,

Dead Sea The Dead Sea ( he, יַם הַמֶּלַח, ''Yam hamMelaḥ''; ar, اَلْبَحْرُ الْمَيْتُ, ''Āl-Baḥrū l-Maytū''), also known by other names, is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank ...

, Jordan, on 22 June 2018. The couple's first child, a son named Talal, was born on 27 March 2019. Their second child, a son named Abdullah, was born on 20 December 2020.

Honours

National Honours

* Jordan: ** JOR Order of the Star of Jordan GC

Grand Cordon of the

Order of the Star of Jordan The Order of the Star of Jordan (Wisam al-Kawkab al-Urduni) or The Order of Hussein ibn Ali (Wisam al-Hussein ibn Ali) is an award and military decoration of the sovereign state of Jordan and is awarded for military or civil merit. It was founde ...

Foreign Honours

* Netherlands: ** Order of Orange-Nassau ribbon - Knight Grand Cross

Dame Grand Cross of the

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(30.10.2006)PPE Agency, State visit of Jordan in Netherlands 2006
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References

1982 births Emerson College alumni House of Hashim Jordanian people of Iranian descent Jordanian princesses Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau Living people People from Amman {{Jordan-bio-stub