The princess has gone to the front , she is the first female pilot in Jordan!I didn t expect my fam

Mondo Military Updated on 2024-01-29

Princess Salma can be said to have inherited the "flying talent" of the Jordanian royal family.

Text |Pu Lin

Report!The princess has gone to the front. "That's right, it's a real princess who went to the front lines in Gaza.

According to reference sources, citing the British "Daily Telegraph"**, Jordanian Princess Salma bint Abdullah II, as a member of the air force, participated in the mission to airdrop medical supplies to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza.

The statement said that the Jordanian side carried out the fifth airdrop, using a parachute to deliver emergency medical supplies to the Gaza field hospital. The Jordanian army has previously airdropped aid to Gaza's first field hospital four times. The first airdrop took place on November 6, followed by a second six days later, a third on November 30, and a fourth shortly thereafter.

The princess of Jordan poses with the armed forces. Photo: The Telegraph

The statement highlighted that the Royal Jordanian Air Force crew successfully dropped supplies with medical and ** supplies to ensure the continuity of hospital operations.

Princess Salma's behavior also made her known from the "little transparent" among her siblings, and quickly attracted widespread attention on social **.

Pictured: Screenshot of a report by Turkey's Anadolu News Agency

In fact, in the family atmosphere of constant palace fighting among the major royal families in the Middle East, the Jordanian royal family is really a clear stream. King Abdullah II and Queen Rania had two sons and two daughters, and the good-looking family of six was very harmonious and happy.

Measured by the country's overall strength and royal wealth, Saudi Arabia is undoubtedly the "strongest monarch" in the Islamic world. But from the perspective of family status, the Saudi royal family is just a "small character" in front of the Hashemite royal family in the small country of Jordan. In June, Prince Hussein, the crown prince of Jordan, got married, including more than ten members of the king (royal) family of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands, Japan, etc., and it is not common for royal (royal) gatherings of this scale to occur, and generally appear in the coronation of important monarchies and other links, which shows the "high status" of the Hashemite royal family.

In June 2023, Prince Hussein, the crown prince of Jordan, got married.

As the fourth king of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Abdullah II wasThe eldest son of Hussein I, he spent his early years in schools in England and the United States.

Abdullah II visited the Royal Jordanian Air Force when he was 11 years old.

After graduating from high school, Abdullah II came to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom to study Xi, and first took a one-year Middle East course at Pembroke College, Oxford University, and then went to the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Affairs, the School of International Affairs of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., with a large number of famous alumni, such as the former ** Clinton of the United States, King Philip of Spain, etc. Later, he also wentThe British Infantry School and the British Command and Staff College studied military and international politics Xi. Abdullah II, so to speakInherited the ancestral tradition of the Rong horse. After completing his studies, after 1981, he served in the Jordanian army for a long time, becoming commander of the Jordanian special forces in 1993 and promoted to brigadier general, commander of the Jordanian special operations forces and commander of the special forces in 1997, and major general in 1998.

Abdullah II at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1981.

Judging by this resume, the tough-guy king is no idle man, and Abdullah II's flying and military prowess is partly due to family traditions. Abdullah II's father, Hussein I, was a skilled flyer and the architect of the modern Jordanian Air Force. As a result, members of the Jordanian royal family are trained in the Air Force.

In a photo released by the Jordanian royal family in November 2013, the King of Jordan drove *** to distribute supplies to people affected by a snowstorm.

As the third child in the family, Princess Salma, who has just turned 23 this year, can be said to have inherited the "flying talent" of the Jordanian royal family. Like her father and brother, she graduated from the prestigious Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom in 2018 and was appointed as a second lieutenant in the Jordanian Armed Forces.

At the graduation ceremony of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Salma (second from left) poses for a photo with her family.

In early 2020, Salma, who was not yet 20 years old, became the first female jet pilot in the Jordanian armed forces after completing her initial pilot training for fixed-wing aircraft. At that time, the Supreme Commander of the Jordanian Armed Forces, her father, Abdullah II, personally wore the badge on his daughter's military uniform, allowing her to fly.

Salma is now enrolled at USC and currently holds the rank of lieutenant. It is reported that Princess Salma is not the first woman to graduate from a military academy. Her aunt, Princess Aisha bint Hussein, was the first Arab woman to enter Sandhurst College and joined the Jordanian Special Forces after graduating in 1987, becoming the first female soldier in Jordan. The Aisha princess not only learned to fly airplanes, but also to parachute, becoming the first female parachutist ever in Jordan.

As a royal family in the Arab world, the Jordanian royal family not only has no special requirements for women's clothing, but Abdullah II also broke the tradition in marriage choices and became the only Jordanian king to marry only one wife. In January 1993, Abdullah II met Rania at a dinner hosted by his sister, Princess Ayisha.

Rania was born in Kuwait on 31 August 1970 to Palestinian parents. Rania received an elite education from an early age and attended an American school in Kuwait (a.).s.After graduating from high school, they went to university in Egypt, and when the Gulf War broke out in 1990, the family moved from Kuwait to Jordan.

Abdullah II and Rania fell in love at first sight.

At that time, although the 23-year-old Rania and Abdullah II, who was still a prince, got married after 5 months of acquaintance, they finally achieved a 30-year love Middle Eastern royal marriage fairy tale.

When she first got married, whether it was the official photos released or accompanying her husband to attend events, Rania still had a touch of youth and nervousness. But now she has long been at ease, and often accompanies her husband to attend various activities on social **.

Of course, Rania herself attends some charity events alone, mainly for women's protection.

Because of her beauty and fashion, coupled with Rania's relatively large freedom in clothing, she has also appeared on the cover of magazines many times, and won titles such as "The World's Youngest Queen", "The World's Most Beautiful First Lady", "Diana of the Arab World" and so on.

It can be said that Princess Salma's beauty and atmosphere are closely related to her family, after all, she has such a mother who combines beauty and wisdom.

Salma and her mother Rania.

And Abdullah II's way of getting along with his children is also less Arabic, neither too much dress but too much interference in marriage issues.

Before this personal trip to the front line, Princess Salma's presence had not been high. Because her brother and sister are just too good.

Salma (center) with her mother and sister.

The elder brother, Crown Prince Hussein, is very active on social **, with nearly 4 million followers on Instagram. He often shares his life on it – for example, he loves football and chessShe loves to ride motorcycles and read.

As the crown prince, it is natural for him to attend various government events and accompany Abdullah II to meet with dignitaries or royal celebrities from various countries.

Hussein and French Macron meet.

In June this year, Hussein and his fiancée Rajeva from Saudi Arabia held a wedding. Rajaeva's father was a businessman who ran several companies in Saudi Arabia, and her family was a former sheikh, and her mother was a distant relative of the Saudi royal family. She herself is a typical elite second-generation, attending college in New York and working in Los Angeles, and was engaged to Hussein last August at Rajeva's father's home in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Her sister, Princess Iman, has been very good at Xi and sports since she was a child, and was once the best girl in the class, and when she grew up, Iman went to the United States for further study. Princess Iman is also good at equestrian sports and has participated in the Middle East Championships.

In his day-to-day life, Iman is a low-key person, but as a member of the royal family, it is inevitable that he has followed the royal family to events since he was a child, including Ramadan and Independence Day ceremonies. She also attended with her parents the 2010 wedding of Princess Victoria of Sweden to Daniel Westerling.

In March of this year, Princess Iman married her fiancé Jameel before her brother Hussein, becoming the first child in the family to marry. The groom, Jamil, is 2 years older than her and is the founder of a financial venture capital firm in New York. The two met on campus and have been in love for many years.

Although she is a princess in the Middle East, Iman can still fall in love freely and marry in the presence of the whole people, which can be said to be rare. Jordanian national television broadcast the wedding of Princess Iman live, and the wedding scene was warm and touching.

The newlyweds and the king sat on the stage, Queen Rania (first from right), brother Hussein (second from right), sister-in-law (middle), sister Salma (first from left), and younger brother Hashim(second from left) sitting in the audience.

Salma's younger brother, the youngest son in the family, Hashim, is 18 years old. But in 2021, he was appointed second lieutenant in the Jordanian armed forces and is currently king at a Jordanian private boarding school's academy reading. Although the sense of existence is still not high, it can be seen that he should also be an excellent person like his brother and sister.

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