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The Scheme to Hook Up a King With the Wasp Woman and Other Wild Plans

Khalid Elhassan August 31, 2020 34 min

Susan Cabot - Hussein of Jordan — Susan Cabot and King Hussein. Veja

35. A Royal Love Child

King Hussein meeting President Gerald Ford in 1976. Wikimedia

King Hussein continued to meet in secret with Susan Cabot whenever the Jordanian monarch visited America, until the affair ended in the 1970s. By then, however, in 1964, Cabot had given birth to her only child, Timothy. He was long rumored to be Hussein’s illegitimate son.

The rumors about Timothy’s true father were buttressed by the fact that Hussein regularly paid Cabot what seems remarkably like child support. As one of Timothy’s lawyers put it in court papers in 1989: “For as long as I can discover, [Cabot] received a regular sum of $1,500 a month from the Keeper of the King’s Purse, Amman, Jordan. … For better or worse, it looks like child support“.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.