when Queen Noor offers a vastly informative and even fascinating memoir of her life?”
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life (Hardcover) by Queen Noor (Author) “I FIRST MET MY FUTURE HUSBAND THROUGH THE lens of a camera…” (more) Price: $18.94 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details You Save: $7.01 (27%) In Stock. From Publishers Weekly Anyone who loved The King and I will readily warm to the love story of Queen Noor and the late King Hussein of Jordan. Born in America in 1951 as Lisa Halaby, Noor came from a wealthy, well-connected family and was part of Princeton’s first co-ed class. Her father’s aviation business produced a chance meeting with King Hussein in 1976, and a year or two later Noor realized the king was courting her. He was 41, she was 26. The rumor mills buzzed: was she the next Grace Kelly? Before long, the king renamed her Noor (light in Arabic), and she converted to Islam. They were married in the summer of 1978. From this point on, her story is mostly his, mainly covering his attempts to broker peace in the Middle
