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{|align=right | |- {|align=right |- | |} Alia Baha ud-din Toukan ((アラビア語:علياء بھاء الدين طوقان)) (25 December 1948 – 9 February 1977) was the Queen consort of Jordan and the third spouse of King Hussein of Jordan from her marriage in 1972 until her death in a helicopter crash in 1977. The international airport in Amman is named after her. ==Background== A daughter of Sayyid Baha ud-din Toukan (or Touqan), former Jordanian ambassador to the title=Jordan remembers Queen Alian (or Touqan), former Jordanian ambassador to the Court of St James's (United Kingdom), Italy, Turkey and Egypt, by his wife, Hanan Hashim. Alia was born in Cairo, Egypt in December 1948.〔cite web|title=Jordan remembers Queen Alia|url=http://jordantimes.com/Jordan+remembers+Queen+Alia-57126|work=Jordan Times|accessdate=6 October 2013}}〕 Her father was a Palestinian from Nablus, who had settled in Salt, near Amman.〔(Death of a King; Cautious King Took Risks In Straddling Two Worlds ) Judith Miller, ''The New York Times'', 8 February 1999〕 He served King Abdullah I, helped write the Jordanian Constitution, and was Jordan's first Ambassador to the United Nations. She spent most of her childhood years travelling with her parents during her father’s career in Jordan’s diplomatic corps: she lived in Egypt, Turkey, London, the United States, and Rome. She attended Church School in London with her younger brothers, Alaa and Abdullah. She was educated at the Rome Center of Liberal Arts of Loyola University Chicago. She studied political science with a minor in social psychology, and public relations at Hunter College in New York. She was interested in sports and writing, and she wished to be a diplomat. In 1971, she moved to Jordan, where she worked for Royal Jordanian. She was asked by King Hussein bin Talal to oversee the preparations for the first International Water Skiing Festival held in Aqaba in September 1972. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alia al-Hussein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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