Prince Naif Bin Al-Abdullah
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Prince Nayef bin Abdullah (, ''al-Amir Nayif ibn ʿAbd Allāh''; 14 November 1914 – 12 October 1983) was the younger son of King Abdullah I of Jordan, by his second wife, Suzdil
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. As a member of the
Hashemite The Hashemites (), also House of Hashim, are the Dynasty, royal family of Jordan, which they have ruled since 1921, and were the royal family of the kingdoms of Kingdom of Hejaz, Hejaz (1916–1925), Arab Kingdom of Syria, Syria (1920), and Kingd ...
dynasty, the royal family of Jordan since 1921, Nayef was a 39th-generation direct descendant of
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. Nayef attended Victoria College in
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. He underwent Military training in
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, being assigned as the honorary Aide-de-Camp of the Turkish President Ismet Inönü between April 1939 until shortly before the outbreak of
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in September the same year. He became regent of
Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...
on 20 July 1951, following the assassination of Abdullah, because his older half-brother King Talal was reportedly suffering from poor health. Nayef ruled in his brother's stead until 6 September 1951, when Talal was judged fit to assume his royal duties. Nayef died in Jordan on 12 October 1983.


Honours

* Knight Grand Cordon (Special Class) of the
Supreme Order of the Renaissance The Supreme Order of the Renaissance (,) is the second-most senior order of merit in the Kingdom of Jordan. History The order was instituted in 1917 by Emir Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca. According to correspondence between the British For ...
(Kingdom of Jordan). * Knight Grand Cordon of the
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(Kingdom of Jordan). * Knight Grand Cordon of the
Order of the Star of Jordan The Order of the Star of Jordan (Wisam al-Kawkab al-Urduni) or The Order of Hussein ibn Ali (Wisam al-Hussein ibn Ali) is an award and order of Jordan and is awarded for military or civil merit. It was founded in honour of his father, by King ...
(Kingdom of Jordan). * Knight Grand Cross of the
Order of Civil Merit The Royal Order of Civil Merit (; Abbreviation, Abbr.: OMC) is a knighthood and one of the three preeminent Order of merit, orders of merit bestowed by the Kingdom of Spain, alongside the Order of Charles III (established in 1771) and the Order ...
(Spain, 5 September 1949). * Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit (with white distinctive) (Spain, 6 September 1949).Boletín Oficial del Estado
/ref> * Knight Grand Cross (Special Class) of the
Order of the Two Rivers The Order of the Two Rivers ( ''Wisam Al Rafidain'') was an Order awarded by the Kings of Iraq and then the Presidents of Iraq. History It was named after the two rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris, that flow through the middle of the country. I ...
(Kingdom of Iraq).


Ancestry


References

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