HRH Princess Basma Bint Talal

Princess Basma bint Talal of Jordan is the only daughter of the late King Talal I bin Abdullah  and Queen Zain Al-Sharaf Talal of Jordan, the Sister of the late King Hussien I of Jordan and the paternal Aunt to the current King of Jordan, HM King Abdullah II. HRH Princess Basma is considered as the Princess Royal of Jordan.

Basma was educated at Ahliyyah School in Amman, then in England at Benenden School (where she was a friend of Princess Anne) and Oxford University, where she read Modern Languages. In 2001, she was awarded a DPhil degree by Oxford University for a thesis entitled Contextualising development in Jordan: the arena of donors, state and NGOs.