A 1987 picture taken from the New English School yearbook shows Queen Rania of Jordan when she was 17 years old. A caption under her name reads ‘All play but no Work’, a jest written by her schoolmates in Kuwait.
Rania will become one of the youngest queens of the world at the age of 28, at the end of three-month mourning period for the death of her father-in-law King Hussein.
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