Princess Salma | |||||
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Born | King Hussein Medical Center, Amman, Kingdom of Jordan | 26 September 2000||||
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House | Hashemite | ||||
Father | Abdullah II of Jordan | ||||
Mother | Rania Al-Yassin | ||||
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Allegiance | Jordan | ||||
Service/ | Royal Jordanian Air Force | ||||
Years of service | 2018–present | ||||
Rank | First lieutenant |
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Princess Salma bint Abdullah (Arabic: سلمى بنت عبدالله; born 26 September 2000) is the second daughter and third child of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan.[1]
Princess Salma bint Abdullah was born at King Hussein Medical Center on 26 September 2000 in Amman, Jordan. She is the third child and second daughter of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania. She is part of the Hashemite family. Salma has two elder siblings, Crown Prince Hussein and Princess Iman, and one younger brother, Prince Hashem.
Princess Salma attended the International Amman Academy (IAA) and graduated from the IAA on 22 May 2018.[2][3] In May 2023, she graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Arts degree in archaeology.[4]
In November 2018, Princess Salma graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst's short commissioning course program.[5] She was commissioned in the Jordanian Armed Forces as a second lieutenant on 24 November 2018. She became the first female jet pilot in the Jordanian Armed Forces in 2020.[6][7] In December 2023, Salma, as a first lieutenant in the Royal Jordanian Air Force, joined an aid flight to resupply the 41-bed Jordanian field hospital in northern Gaza.[8]