![]() ![]() ![]() There's even a Texas connection: The author's paternal grandfather came to America from Beirut at age 12, eventually settling in Dallas, where he married a rancher's daughter and founded Halaby Galleries, which catered to the fashionably rich of Dallas and Houston. ![]() Now 52 and a widow - Hussein died of lymphoma in 1999 - Queen Noor tells her extraordinary story in a book that hit the New York Times best-seller list within days of its publication. Beautiful Lisa Halaby, 26, of Washington, D.C., marries handsome King Hussein, 42, of Jordan, a Muslim with three previous wives and eight children she gets a new name, Queen Noor, and begins a new life in a palace in Jordan's capital city, Amman, where shepherds cross downtown streets with their flocks as the youngest queen in the world and the only American-born queen, she is the focus of constant media attention and gossip, much of it negative and hurtful she becomes a confidant of Hussein in his role as would-be peacemaker in the turbulent Middle East and travels the world with him on state visits, meeting and mingling with world leaders and celebrities. ![]()
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