She is no legend, but a reality!! A woman and a crown!! The crown of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan — and its queen, the Emira Dina, only child of her father, the Emir Abd al-Hamid al-Awn of the Hashemite line and cousin of King Hussein the First of the Meccan royal family; her mother is the Emira Fakhriyya Brau, of the line of the famous Circassian Kabartai tribe — from her Dina took the legendary Circassian beauty.

She was born in Egypt, where her people settled after they left the Hijaz in the wake of the Wahhabi invasion in 1920. Other members of the family moved to Jordan and Iraq. King Faisal the First founded the ruling Hashemite state in Iraq, and his younger brother, King Abdullah (grandfather of King Hussein), became emir, and later, in 1947, king of Jordan.

Queen Dina has a winning personality and captivating conversation, joining to splendor of countenance an intelligence that arouses interest and admiration. She is the only queen in the world to hold the degree of Master (M.A.) in English literature, from Cambridge University in 1947. She keeps up wide and elevated reading, preferring books of art and philosophy and the literature of the nineteenth century. "Perhaps because I know it better than modern literature," says Queen Dina.

Before she became queen, Dina was not that secluded, aloof aristocrat: she lectured in English literature at the Institute of Arts of Cairo University, and also attended the Arabic courses at the institute of the Arab League. Her first incentive for studying English literature was her hope of acquainting the Western world with the Arab world through her writings. She takes care to follow daily events with the utmost attention, and she loves travel. Among her aims, before she became wife and mother, was to travel through the Arab world to study and consolidate Arab music and dance and the folk dance.

Her life now is a full, complete life, and often one of many demands. Yet she finds in it a struggle without which she would not feel her life to be of great worth. And she gives her threefold role — as wife, mother, and queen — an undivided attention.

Queen Dina with the Princess Alia