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Alia Toukan | |||||
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Queen consort of Jordan | |||||
Tenure | 24 December 1972 – 9 February 1977 | ||||
Born | Alia Bahauddin Toukan 25 December 1948 Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt | ||||
Died | 9 February 1977 Amman, Jordan | (aged 28)||||
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Father | Bahauddin Toukan | ||||
Mother | Hanan Hashim |
Alia Bahauddin Toukan (Arabic: علياء بهاء الدين طوقان, romanized: 'Āliyā' Bahāʾ ud-Dīn Ṭūqān; 25 December 1948 – 9 February 1977), also known as Alia Al Hussein (Arabic: علياء الحسين),[1] was Queen of Jordan as the third wife of King Hussein from their marriage on 24 December 1972 until her death in a helicopter crash in 1977.