- Walter Percy Gardiner
Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Percy GardinerMC (b.12 December 1914 Norfolk , England) was the father ofPrincess Muna al-Hussein , and maternal grandfather of His Majesty KingAbdullah II of Jordan .Lt.Col Gardiner was married in 1938 to Doris Elizabeth Sutton (1916 - died by 1994); their daughter, Antoinette Avril Gardiner, became Princess Muna al-Hussein in 1961 as the second wife of King Hussein of Jordan.
He was last known to be living in
Jordan in 1999. [ [http://www.wargs.com/royal/muna.html Ancestry of Princess Muna of Jordan ] ]References
Details on ancestry of Princess Muna and her father. ources
William Addams Reitwiesner [http://www.wargs.com/royal/muna.html "The Ancestry of HRH Princess Muna"] on his website. Reitwiesner is a part-time genealogist, whose works (some co-authored with other genealogists) have been published in genealogical periodicals. [http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/03/a_new_twist_to.php]
Note
Doris Elizabeth Sutton is claimed by one website [ [http://www.maltagenealogy.com/libro%20d'Oro/fiddien.html] to have illegitimate descent from Maltese nobility; the father of her maternal grandmother, (Gertrude) Ruth Green, being unknown. [http://www.wargs.com/royal/muna.html] . However, that website provides no evidence to support its claims within the site, or subsequently on genealogical forums.
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