Princess Haya bint Hussein is the daughter of King Hussein of Jordan and his third wife Queen Alia. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford in England and an accomplished equestrian. She represented Jordan at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia and is the two-term President of the International Federation for Equestrian Sports. On 10 April 2004, Princess Haya became the second official wife of the ruler of the Emirate of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Sheikh Mohammed divorced her under Sharia Law on 7 February 2019.
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Princess Haya bint Hussein is the daughter of King Hussein of Jordan and his third wife Queen Alia, and the half-sister of King Abdullah II. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford in England and an accomplished equestrian. She represented Jordan at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia and is the two-term President of the International Federation for Equestrian Sports. On 10 April 2004, Princess Haya became the second official wife of the ruler of the Emirate of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who, in addition, had a number of “unofficial” wives. Sheikh Mohammed divorced her under Sharia Law on 7 February 2019. On 15 April 2019, PrincessHaya left Dubai with the two children of the marriage to reside in the United Kingdom. She has a younger brother, Prince Ali bin Hussein born on 23 December 1975, and older sister, Abir Muhaisen, the latter of whom was adopted by Haya’s parents after her biological mother was killed by a plane crash at their Palestinian refugee camp in Amman. In 1977, when Haya was 3 years old, her mother died in a helicopter crash. In 1992, she took the bronze medal in individual Jumping at the seventh Pan Arab Games in Damascus, Syria, and in 1993 was named Jordan’s athlete of the year. In 2009, due to her contribution to the equine world, she was made the first Patron of Retraining of Racehorses. On 7 June 2008, New Approach, a three-year-old colt owned by Princess HayA, trained in Ireland by Jim Bolger and ridden by Kevin Manning, won the Derby Stakes.
On 25 October 2008, Raven’s Pass won the USD 5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. After being named the European champion 2- year-old in 2007 and winning the 2008 Epsom Derby, New approach was retired at the end of the 2008 racing season. She was elected president of the FEI in 2006 for an initial four-year term. In 2010 she became the first sitting FEI president to be challenged in a re-election race. She succeeded, receiving 75 percent of the vote, in a second and final four year term, and winning 75 percent to defeat her two European rivals. She complained that the issue would be used to eliminate doping and horse abuse in equine sport, and appeared frequently to reputations of myself and my family. In 2007, she became a member of the. International Olympic Committee, and in 2010 became an appointee to the IOC’s International Relations Committee, and has also served on the IOC Athletes’ and Culture and Olympic Education Commissions. In 1999, her father died from complications related to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1999, leaving the crown to her half-brother, Kingdullah II. She was the first woman to represent her native Jordan in internationalequestrian sport and the only woman to win a medal in the Pan-Arab Equestrians Games.
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