Queens and YouTube

This is popping up all over the place today, Queen Rania’s (Jordan) acceptance of the YouTube Visionary Award, Letterman style. I suspect the interest is partly the unfamiliarity many in the west have not only with the middle east but also with royalty, after all in Australia our model is the British royal family, who would never do things like the Norwegian royal family do (the crown princess had a child from a previous relationship before she got to be a princess) and King Olav V was famous for catching the tram up to Holmenkollen to go skiing. So Queen Rania clearly knows how to make fun of herself, while also being able to be an advocate. You can imagine she’d be a very popular Queen.

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