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After the abdication of his father King Talal of Jordan, Crown Prince Hussein became King of Jordan on 11 August 1952. Early life Hussein bin Talal bin Abdullah bin Hussein bin Ali was born on 14 November 1935 in Amman, then a part of Transjordan. He was a son of then Crown Prince Talal of Jordan and Princess Zein Al-Sharaf. At that time, the royal family was poor, they could not afford heating in their house. Hussein got his name from his great-grandfather, Hussein bin Ali (Sharif of Mecca), who was the leader of the 1916 Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.It was said that Hussein was the 40th. direct descendant of Muhammad through the Hashemite dynasty. The young Prince Hussein started his education at the Victoria College in Alexandria, Egypt. Then he went to Harrow School in England, where he became a close  friend with King Faisal II of Iraq. On 20 July 1951, Prince Hussein traveled to Jerusalem to perform Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque with h

One of the most important UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Belém area of Lisbon, capital of Portugal, is the Jerónimos Monastery. Jerónimos Monastery in Belém Lisbon Portugal It was built in the amazing beautiful Portuguese Late Gothic Manueline style of architecture. Some royal history On 6 January 1501 the construction of the monastery and the church started, 100 years later it was completed. King Manuel originally funded the project with moneys of the commerce from Africa and the Orient. Jerónimos Monastery in Belém, Lisbon, Portugal It was King Manuel himself who selected the religious order of the Hieronymite monks to occupy the monastery, whose role it was to pray for the King's eternal soul and to provide spiritual assistance to navigators and sailors who departed from the port of Restelo to discover the world. On 16 July 1604, Philip of Spain (he ruled of Portugal after the Iberian Union) made the monastery a royal funerary monument. He