Queen Rania: A Very Modern Royal

MB December 2, 2008, 4:10 pm

Queen Rania, the consort of Jordan’s King Abdullah, is a very modern royal who is using the internet to fight for women’s rights in the Muslim world according to a profile in The Independent today.

Since her husband acceded to the throne, she has been voted third most beautiful woman in the world by Harpers & Queen, granted a half-hour interview to Oprah Winfrey, appeared alongside Bono on the cover of Vanity Fair, teamed up with John Legend and Scarlett Johansson to front an “end poverty” campaign, and featured in Forbes’ “most powerful women of the world” list.

Earlier this year, she launched her own YouTube channel and recently became the first recipient of the video-sharing site’s Visionary Award, which it created to recognise people who use the site as a platform for “positive social change”.

As the prfile explains, Queen Rania is a “woman on a mission”. Read more on The Independent Web site.