WELCOME TO HRH PRINCE HAMZAH bin AL HUSSEIN OF JORDAN's PHOTO SITE. HRH PRINCE HAMZAH bin AL HUSSEIN WAS BORN IN AMMAN, JORDAN, ON MARCH 29, 1980. HE IS THE 8TH CHILD OF THE LATE KING HUSSEIN I OF JORDAN BY HIS 4th WIFE, AMERICAN BORN LISA HALABY, AKA QUEEN NOOR AL HUSSEIN. HRH PRINCE HAMZAH WAS APPOINTED AS CROWN PRINCE OF JORDAN BY THE PRESENT KING, HIS HALF- BROTHER, KING ABDULLAH II, ON FEB 7, 1999, WHO HAD TO OBLIGE TO A REQUEST OF HIS DYING FATHER. PRINCE HAMZAH WAS THE PREFERITE SON OF THE LATE KING HUSSEIN, WHO WANTED HIM TO SUCCEED ON THE THRONE, NOT HIS ELDEST SON, ABDULLAH, BUT..... AS PRINCE HAMZAH WAS TOO YOUNG AT THE TIME, HE WAS ONLY 18 YEARS OLD AND 11 MONTHS, THE DYING KING HUSSEIN WAS FORCED TO APPOINT HIS ELDEST SON AS HIS CROWN PRINCE. PRINCE HAMZAH HAS THEN BEEN UNFAIRLY STRIPPED OF HIS TITLE BY HIS HALF- BROTHER, LAST NOV 29, 2004.