Rania of Jordan, the new family photo to wish a 2022 full of “happiness and health”

A family photo with a message of hope and happiness. Like this Rania from Jordan wanted to share with his 6.5 million followers on Instagram wishes for the coming new year. The queen, 51 years old made last August, appears in the center of the photo next to her husband, the king of Jordan Abd Allah II, eight years older. On their sides i four children, the crown prince Hussein, 27 years old, the prince Hashem, 16, the princess Faith, 25 and the princess Salma, 21. In the photo, taken in royal residence of Al-Maquar, in Amman, Rania – wearing a white dress with three parallel Greek frets, her hair down to her shoulders – looks as flawless as ever.

The message attached to the photo is full of positivity: “May the threads of happiness, hope and good health weave your new year together“. Phrase that refers to the video that Queen Rania has always shared on her Instagram profile, and which shows the making of the new ones royal greeting cards, with handmade embroidery. The queen explained that this year the greeting cards of the royal house “recall different embroidery patterns of the thobes“, or traditional Jordanian clothes. “Over the past few months, we’ve been working with a group of talented people craftsmen from all over Jordan who channeled passion and patriotism into every piece of embroidery », added Rania. “Individually, each of them shows a part of our different cultural heritage. But together they create the rich and resistant tapestry that is Jordan ».

The photo message of the queen of Jordan arrives just a few days later the Christmas Card dei Cambridge. One another great family shot – protagonists Kate Middleton, the husband William and the three children George, 8, Charlotte, 6, and Louis, 3 – made in Jordan, where the British royals were on vacation, in secret, last January. On the other hand, Jordan has always been a country that has always been very dear to Middleton, who has here spent two years when she was a child. His father Michael was at the time manager of British Airways and resided in Amman with his family. Now a new thread has connected Kate’s London with Rania’s Amman. Two royal families with very different traditions have chosen to share similar images, in which one predominates calm and relaxed atmosphere. What is needed, at the time of a pandemic that does not even hint at receding at this end of the year, to send the subjects a message of hope.