The system of monarchy will never die, but some royals are treading dangerously close to extinction.
Without your title and dynasty, you’re Victoria Beckham and you rely on the pages of Hello! magazine for your publicity. Some royals, unfortunately, don’t seem to mind that eventuality.
Princes William and Harry and their cousin Princess Beatrice seem content to live a socialite’s life with scads of money, but want none of the responsibility that comes with being royal. Hence Beatrice’s casual request, “Just call me plain Beatrice” when referred to as Her Royal Highness. God forbid you’re associated with an institution or idea that puts country before self…
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Queen Rania with two of her four children:
December 31st, 2008
Mandy
Queen Rania of Jordan recently donated her blood to help victims of the conflict in Gaza.
The Queen, who is Palestinian, decided to help her homeland in the most personal way she could think of by donating blood on Tuesday. More than 350 people have already been killed in the besieged region.
Rania’s husband, H.M. King Abdullah II, also donated blood at the same hospital the previous day.
Queen Rania visited the Al-Hussein Medical Centre today to take part in a nationwide campaign to donate blood and support the citizens of Gaza.
- Palace Statement
Queen Rania wrote of the tragedy: “To be limited to expressing sympathies with the people of Gaza is shameful because they don’t need to be felt sorry for, they need us to act and help, and I know that we can do more.”
This video, Jordan’s Queen Rania on Arab women, is quite refreshing. Her Majesty acknowledges that there are issues in Arab culture regarding women that need to be addressed, and it will take time for change. A lot of Arab countries are, however, moving in the right direction.
I think Queen Rania is right. It will take time to change some of the aspects of Muslim culture in regards to women. We in the western world are full of feminism, ‘girl power’, and the working woman, and we think that other cultures in the world should be just like us and at the same point we are in our progression. This is not possible, and we need to remember that things do take time. Not to mention the fact that a lot of our own cultures still have sexism issues.
Take a look, it’s very interesting.
