What i was trying to put across is that Haya may have married her ex-husband for other than romantic reasons that most Western people would enter a marriage.
She was getting to an age where most women of her age had been married. I assume there was no acceptable love in her life to be a potential husband and here was a no doubt charming man of the right faith who could also help the people of her country and probably presented a future that was both useful and filled with things she would like.
My take on it is that Haya did not marry with her heart but with her head. He was a proper husband for a Jordanian Princess. Marrying him would give her a family and the kind of life she thought she liked. Unfortunately things turned out not as rosy as they were presented to her and again i doubt Abdullah had any clue of that.
But I'm not really believing Haya was head over heels in love with her ex-husband. I believe she married a man she thought was a good candidate but who turned out to be much less pleasant than presented before the marriage.
I heard some reports that it was an arranged match by her half brother king Abdullah of Jordan as the marriage resulted in investments by Dubai and the United Emirates in Jordan.
If there was any element of arrangement involved Princess Haya must have voluntarily consented to it. The Hashemites are notable for being more Westernised and less traditional than other Arab monarchies so it's impossible to believe that the King would have forced his sister into marrying against her will and his subsequent support for her since she fled Dubai would re-inforce this.
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