Finally a biography worth its weight in salt. Hollywood, its usual culture of narcissism and fictionalized history rebuked to recount how Queen Noor of Jordan came to be. Another Cinderella story about an American blonde who marries a foreign king, typical fairy tale stuff except for the blunt timing of the current war.
Her world centers on a leap of faith, for love which begat her conversion by law to Islam. It is about a charmed life absent of the trivialized, intent on sincere altruism and committed to honest causes. The twenty and some years of being in the public eye which mirrored the uncertain and unstable times of a holy land where so much blood has been spilled, bore witness to, if not shaped, latter twentieth century history. Real substantive material instead of the fluff of manufactured Warholian celebrity afflicting popular cultural consciousness.
No wonder that her adopted countrymen so adore and treasure their queen, wife of the beloved and belated king and the mother of the Crown Prince.