Aliya bint Ali

Aliya bint Ali of Hejaz (Arabic: علياء بنت علي, "noble born"; 19 January 1911 – 21 December 1950), was an Arabian princess and a queen consort of Iraq.

Queen Aliya was born on 19 January 1911 in Mecca, She was the second daughter of Ali bin Hussein of Hejaz and Princess Nafissa.

In 1920, Aliya traveled to Damascus with her siblings and mother when her uncle Faisal was declared King of Syria in order to witness his coronation ceremony.

When the Kingdom of Hejaz fell to the Saudis in 1925, Aliya and the rest of her family fled to Amman through the port of Jeddah where they were welcomed by emir Abdullah I of Jordan where they stayed in his palace.

[3] British sources wrote about the incident, that King Ghazi’s bad reputation was tarnished “further” when a “Negro youth,” who was employed at the Royal Al-Zuhour Palace, died by “accidentally” discharging his revolver when he did not remove it before his afternoon siesta.