Timoor Daghistani

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Name Timoor Daghistani

Spouse Basma bint Talal (m. 1970) Similar People Basma bint Talal, Zein al‑Sharaf Talal, Talal of Jordan, Hussein of Jordan

Timur (al-)Daghistani, GCVO, (born in Baghdad, on 4 January 1948) served as the Jordanian ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Biography

Son of Major-General Ghazi al-Daghistani, CVO, former ADC to King Faisal II of Iraq, and paternal grandson of Muhammad Fadhil al-Daghistani.

Bethany School, Goudhurst, Kent.

2nd-Lieutenant of the Jordan Arab Army.

Director of Training Armoured Corps.

Assistant Military Attaché, Washington D.C. (1980-1983) [retired 1986].

Assistant Director of the Information Bureau, Washington D.C. (1986-1993).

Ambassador to Spain (1994-1999).

Ambassador at the Court of St James's (since 1999).

His military grade is Colonel.

He was married to Princess Basma bint Talal of Jordan in Amman, on 2 April 1970 and had two children together:

Farah Daghistani (born 25 March 1971), married 23 September 2004 Saud Abdul Aziz Suleiman.

Ghazi Daghistani (born 21 July 1974), married on 7 September 2006 Samanta Mahdi Saifi.

In the late 1970s, they divorced and Basma went on to marry Sayyid Walid al-Kurdi on 14 April 1980.

He remarried Patrice Ann, and has further issue (Leith Daghistani).

Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Star of Jordan (Kingdom of Jordan).

Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order [GCVO] (United Kingdom, 6.11.2001).

Member of the Royal Order of the Intare (Rwanda).

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